Via several friends on Facebook, this image from Bob Lucas’s wall photos:
On the snowclonelet X nazi, with special reference to grammar nazi, see here and here.
And note that the Peanuts takeoff is about spelling rather than grammar — that is, it’s about garmmra.
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