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Thread #22728   Message #251257
Posted By: GUEST,Nancy King
03-Jul-00 - 05:18 PM
Thread Name: 'Grammical' faux pas. Language Larfs.
Subject: RE: 'Grammical' faux pas. Language Larfs.
Back to word goofs-- Many years ago a friend of mine, at the time a reporter for Associated Press in Washington DC, was working on Christmas eve, and had just finished a story on holiday services and sent it out over the wire. The phone rang and she answered, but the guy on the phone was laughing so hard he couldn't tell her why he'd called and finally just hung up, leaving my friend a bit perplexed. In a little while, he called again, still snickering and guffawing, but this time he managed to tell her to look at the story on church services. She did--turned out she'd written about the Shrine of the Emasculate Conception...