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From time to time, people write or say things that misuse words, punctuation or spelling and create an unintentional funny meaning. They are reproduced here with the response I would like to make…if I wasn’t so polite and courteous. If you have any you would like to add, e mail me the mistake at
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and the response you would like to have made (or did make) and I’ll publish them with your details and a link to whatever site you’d like. |
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This came up as a security question on some site where I registered. They felt the need for my music listening habits to be private and so they wanted me to create a password. One of the security questions for when I (inevitably) can’t remember my password was “What is your favorite past-time?”. | | | |
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A few years ago, the health club I belonged to was promoting a supplement that was supposed to do wonderful things for your body. They had a baseline test you had to take to measure your weight, height, fat, thin, the size of house you lived in etc. to arrive at a benchmark. From there, they could measure your progress as you took their supplement. | | | |
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Somebody wrote to me once that “This is one of the tenants of my beliefs”. That’s incredible, I thought to myself. Your beliefs are a house that has people living in it? Do they pay you rent? Wow, what a concept! Oh, I see, you mean “tenets”. The etymology comes from the Latin “to hold” – really nothing to do with real estate at all. This just in... | | | |
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This is startling news! Do you mean that you are planning a coup? You plan to get rid of the monarchy? I know the CIA does this routinely, but in which country? What have they done? Oh, I’m sorry….you are just using a horse riding metaphor and you just mean surrendering control to the beast beneath. It’s funny that most coups actually accomplish that in the end and maybe the two meanings aren’t really so different after all! | | | |
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