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Old 07-01-2015, 04:13 PM
 
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A few months ago, I received a phone call from a legitimate polling organization. Unlike the way that I react to unsolicited sales calls, I will usually try to help people who are conducting a legitimate poll.

This poll had to do with local newspapers, and the young woman was very pleasant, albeit a bit unpolished. One of her questions had to do with a newspaper with which I was not familiar, so I had to ask her to repeat its name several times. The name that she gave me just didn't seem familiar, and it certainly didn't seem to make sense.

After she had repeated something that sounded like "messenger gazetty" several times, I finally realized that she was referring to a low-circulation regional weekly--The Messenger-Gazette.

Yes, this young woman had apparently never before encountered the word "gazette", and thought that it was pronounced as "gazetty".


 
Old 07-01-2015, 04:47 PM
 
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I like gazette and meatballs!
 
Old 07-02-2015, 06:13 AM
 
Location: USA
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"The teachers except a lot from the students academically."
 
Old 07-02-2015, 08:26 AM
 
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I'm just going to "leaf" this here:

Looking to get them bracchs trimed up that keep hitting you in the head when you mow your lawn? Or do you have a beutiful flowwre garden over grown with weeds? Well im the guy to do it i professionaly trim and cut diwn trees along with other misc thing looking for some side work
 
Old 07-03-2015, 10:32 AM
 
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From...a forum that cannot be named...

"She seems to be a little bit Dr Hyed and Dr Jeckyl....he didn't give her anymore money...My self i learned years ago."

 
Old 07-03-2015, 11:56 AM
 
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Originally Posted by Nicci6Squirrels View Post
This lady's mad that TV Land removed the Dukes of Hazzard from their TV lineup:

Dumbie's not using their head, and letting others think for them!

This person is nonchalant about the news:

It don't phase me. I didn't hardly watch it.

Heyyyy. I don't hardly never say nothin' like that there.
 
Old 07-03-2015, 09:56 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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From a thread about healthcare in Texas:

"We're the largest boarder state."

Are boarding houses still around?

Yesterday we had something delivered to the memory care center in which my mother in law is living. The girl from the office called and said, "So...we're delivering this to Oak Hills Ter-RASS, right?"

It's Oak Hills Terrace. I guess she has no idea what a terrace is, though in her defense, I can't quite figure out why the memory care center claims to be a terrace on a hill of oaks. The whole name is sort of a sham, but at least I do know what a terrace is SUPPOSED to be.
 
Old 07-03-2015, 10:21 PM
 
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We better ban them library's now.

The 'elite' get one set of rules... Us pee-ons get another.
 
Old 07-04-2015, 05:27 AM
 
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Us pee-ons get another.
Hmmm...I wonder if the person who originally wrote that gem was unconsciously revealing something that would be better left confidential.

 
Old 07-04-2015, 05:31 AM
 
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Thanks for complying the pictures
Always do what the pictures tell you.
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