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You talking to me?????????

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I just wanted to say hi, so hi....

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I believe someone intentionally once but a bunch of typos on a flyer for their missing cat to make sure it would stand out and get people to notice the flyers. Work smarter, not harder.

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By working dumber.

Lazy people make everything work more efficiently.

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It allows them to be lazy, which I think is ultimately the endgame of success -- the privilege of free time.

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You know, I’d like to say that the “but” typo in my above comment was some kind of meta joke, but no. I was foiled by autocorrect.

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Feb 23, 2023Liked by Chuck Palahniuk

And hear I was thinking it was ownly language prose who get lured into that. ;)

For sure, no one had to forse me to get to the end. I was actually a little disappointed the sharp uptick in their literacy rate.

Happy belated birthday!!

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#BadGrammarIsTheNewGoodRighting

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Don't know why I never touched that. Sounds like something right up my Ali. 8=) Still disappointed in myself that I couldn't make it through Ulysses.

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Reminds me of what a P.R. guy I knew once said: It's risky but if you purposely put a typo in the opening sentence of a press release, editors would spot it and scoff and read all the way through to see how many typos there were - which was how to get them to read the hole thing (haha, whole).

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Forsable Future sounds sounds kinda kinky don't it.......

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I didn't even catch that one! My brain overcorrected what my eyes were seeing haha.

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Were they working on something for you, maybe a gold plated Barret 50 cal?

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A story told through gun store flyers...

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Misteaks are fun.

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My favorite subreddit for these is r/BoneAppleTea.

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Grown in a peach-tree-dish

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Haha. One that I found out I was guilty of late in life was “make ends meet”. I always thought it was “make ends meat.” Maybe it’s because I live in a BBQ town and we eat burnt ends here. No idea. I felt pretty stupid though lol.

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I had to learn about burnt ends from watching Guy Fieri.

Or maybe those were bunt ends??

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You know, I really wonder what that guy is like to party with. He kinda gives off Billy Mays vibes.

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A story from a tech writer friend goes that when they started to use spellcheckers, they'd still miss typos, like, "Copy the file to the C:\pubes directory," when they meant "pubs directory."

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Don’t look in the pubes direktory, not ever

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This is alost as good as when sameone maid an ackusation about sending the gazpacho police to arrest peeple

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It's the night before my bday and I'm a Rockstar for one night only so I hope to Gawd there's some kind of action in my future even if it's forsable.............on my part

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Random question, but was Fight Club at all inspired by the Oklahoma City Bombings and/or The Turner Diaries? Or was it another one of your unfortunate coincidences like the filming of Survivor and 9/11?

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No action in the Forsable Future......maybe I'll get luckier in my fifties.........

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So over the Forsable Future. It's back to the Prekarieous Past for me....

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