"...there are no 'spoilers' possible since the ending of the film doesn't follow logically from anything that proceeded it..."
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From a web forum:
"I have this very unnoing person in my life."
I wonder if the poster knows someone who is very annoying..........
"I have this very unnoing person in my life."
I wonder if the poster knows someone who is very annoying..........
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In a review of a water heater:
"...I suspect sentiment has caused the unit to require higher heat setting and intermittent water temperature."
Gotta love an appliance with feelings.
"...I suspect sentiment has caused the unit to require higher heat setting and intermittent water temperature."
Gotta love an appliance with feelings.
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Awww.
Poor, lonely sentimental water heater. Does anyone ask it how its day was? No. They just turn on the shower and expect hot water. It's all give give give until one day they throw it on the curb for some hotter, younger model.
Sentiment? I'm surprised it wasn't suicidal!
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I'm not sure if this goes in Hall of Shame or Silver Star for Trying:
"I'mma".
Never seen anyone take the trouble to put an apostrophe in there before
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"I'mma".
Never seen anyone take the trouble to put an apostrophe in there before
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The description for a movie on my cable TV service made a reference to Jackie O'Nassis.
I didn't know that Jackie Kennedy's second husband was Irish. I thought he was Greek.
I didn't know that Jackie Kennedy's second husband was Irish. I thought he was Greek.
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This one just made me laugh -
"diaghrammatic reasoning"
Watch what those size xxx fingers are doing on the keyboard.
"diaghrammatic reasoning"
Watch what those size xxx fingers are doing on the keyboard.
"Famous Nefertiti bust is a Euorpean fake - proven"
--Headline on an Internet article about the famous bust in a Berlin museum. Of course, the question of whether Nefertiti's bust is a fake (unproven, despite the headline) is more interesting than the misspelling, but at least they could have done a spell-check.
--Headline on an Internet article about the famous bust in a Berlin museum. Of course, the question of whether Nefertiti's bust is a fake (unproven, despite the headline) is more interesting than the misspelling, but at least they could have done a spell-check.
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One should be extra careful with text in an animated graphic, especially a nice big header.:
WEEKLE
WEEKLE
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I'm breaking my rule here, but WhiteSmoke should know better than to leave this example even in a silly little quiz.
“To whom should I give this to?”
I guess I have it in for them because they install a toolbar and hijack home pages.
“To whom should I give this to?”
I guess I have it in for them because they install a toolbar and hijack home pages.
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Just found a vendor of Semi-pressures Jewelry. I suppose if there had been full pressures one would have ended up with diamonds... 
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Dodging packs of rabid apostrophleas across the shifting ice of the Interwebz, I landed on a page that offered this refreshing tidbit:
Indeed; everyone should endeavor to keep unthreshed wheat out of their underwear.
I was browsing around on Pinterest one day, looking at pictures of fashion. On one photo there was a comment that said, "This outfit is hidies."
Hidies? What the hell is hidies, I wondered. Then it struck me that the person probably meant "hideous."
That was the most original spelling of the word I've ever seen.
Yeah, hidies. And my tidy-whities.
Hidies? What the hell is hidies, I wondered. Then it struck me that the person probably meant "hideous."
That was the most original spelling of the word I've ever seen.
Yeah, hidies. And my tidy-whities.
"HOUSTON...- A Texas family has went from having one child to six after Danielle Busby gave birth to quintuplets last week."
If I had went to Houston last week, maybe I could have saw them.
If I had went to Houston last week, maybe I could have saw them.
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"How does octopuses control their 8 arms all at once move?"*
*headline on a news article
The same way spiders all at once its legs move?
*headline on a news article
The same way spiders all at once its legs move?
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Most of the funny-bad ones I see are from people who clearly are not native speakers of English, so mocking them seems unfair and mean spirited. But the ones you all are finding appear to lavishly illustrate the failings of the US educational system.
Keep them coming!
Maryn, amused
Keep them coming!
Maryn, amused
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ESL leniency might have a say here, but I think if you're going to Tweet in Engrish you should check spelling before filling out profile info
As I said recently on Facebluk,
As I said recently on Facebluk,
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Ow.
I try hard to remind myself that the internet is international and not every flub with English merits mockery, even in my own mind, but a professional website written in English really needs to be correct in terms of the basics.
I try hard to remind myself that the internet is international and not every flub with English merits mockery, even in my own mind, but a professional website written in English really needs to be correct in terms of the basics.
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And now a lapse of the no-naming rule. This hit my face when I logged in to pay my exorbitant Charter Interwebz bill:
I hope I find lots more on their shiny new improved site.
I hope I find lots more on their shiny new improved site.
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It was worth trying three web browsers to load this page of photos to capture this caption:
Note that this is not from some odd nerk's blog, but a highly reputable national news site. Like, wow....
Note that this is not from some odd nerk's blog, but a highly reputable national news site. Like, wow....
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