I thought that I should be prepared for nasty comments and general horribleness.
But other Twitter users fired abusive barbs – or told Fisher that as a public figure, she should be prepared for negative comments in the online arena.
Chris Stone, the managing editor of Sports Illustrated, said that the magazine had prepared for inflammatory comments to be posted on its Web site as soon as Collins's essay was published.
The engineering — the way the sequences are prepared for and commented on by preceding sequences, the way the five accounts tie together to tell the story — seems as ingenious as ever; though one is aware that the narrators are telling things they couldn't have witnessed, one accepts this as part of the convention.
If he/she is a ruleslawyer, be prepared for such comments as, "You forgot to give him ice weakness.
Of course, you had better be prepared for the occasional comment -- always offered jokingly -- that you apparently have nothing better to do.
"I knew this time there was no turning back". She was 23 at the time and was not prepared for the negative comments from strangers that would follow.
At the start of the season, Diego Simeone had claimed that the league was "dangerously prepared for Real Madrid", a comment that drew surprisingly little condemnation.
"For the city to proceed to build three high schools within one mile of one another does not make sense to me," she said in comments prepared for a Dec. 10 public hearing on the DCI proposal.
The Federal Reserve vice chairman, Donald Kohn, in comments prepared for delivery on Friday, said: "Conditions are not conducive to a substantial and sustained economic rebound, and the Fed will continue to be alert to ways that monetary policy can contribute to economic recovery".
