What I learned on the way home from my weekend vacation

From my mother:

1.  "a myriad of" is a redundant construction, as is "from whence".

From The Most Ghetto Rest Stop I Regularly Frequent outside of Chicago on my way back to Champaign:

2.  Inventive spelling, is not, in fact, always successful*:

*In the sense that the writer did not arrive at the proper spelling by guessing.  The writer is successful in carrying across his/her message.

Ah prescriptivism.