The Quill, March 1st, 2006
When a Fox News reporter referred to "the horseless rider" during Ronald Reagan's funeral procession a couple of years ago, I created a folder called "freaky deakies." It contains weird mistakes from the media, and if it were not a computer folder, we could accurately term it "bulging."
A sampling:
* A newspaper want ad for an office manager specified that the applicant must be "prophetic" in Microsoft Office.
* Pet advertisements often note that a dog or cat has been "spaded," but you have to wonder if the following pet ad was even in the right section: "Datsun - free to good home."
* One...
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