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Topic Started: Jun 8 2006, 03:42 PM (67 Views)
George K
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In homage to Dewey's thread about the Presbyterian request for people to go naked, I enclose some other interesting signs, memos, etc.

Elliot Kretzmer reports that The Debkafile website carried a story
on 15 May 2006 of "four men who turned themselves into Egyptian
police". Quite an arresting development, he thinks.

"Here is an extract," e-mailed Malcolm Hutton, "from the May-June
issue of Booklover, from Dymocks, the Australian booksellers. The
interview was with a new writer, one book published, another in the
offing: 'I've been writing for as long as I can remember. I've got
a whole lot of stuff I've written over the past 20 years in my
wardrobe.'" Writers have it so easy these days; earlier generations
had only a freezing garret to write in.

George Thomas found another noteworthy comment in the same piece:
"I wrote the first sentence exactly five years ago. I knew people
in the book industry and I asked them to read it and got their
feedback. From there, I re-wrote it and got a manuscript assessor
to read it, too. I went down the road of trying to get an agent,
but that was difficult. I then sent it to a publisher who accepted
manuscripts. By the time Hodder got it, it was very polished and I
think they could tell it was not a first draft." That fastidiously
crafted sentence is going to make a disconcertingly slim book.

Remaining for the nonce in Australia, Michael Shannon found this
headline on the news Web site for the National Nine Television
Network: "Man shot dead in park wanted for murder". "America," he
comments, "may have its mean streets but we've got killer parks."
And Gary Smith reports that he found an irresistible treat on a
menu at a Greek restaurant in Adelaide: "fried codpieces".

"The issue of Reader's Digest for November 2005," e-mailed Irene
Heath, "contained the following statement: 'In 2003, 203 people
died when their vehicle collided with a tree.' I don't know what
kind of vehicle can carry 203 people, but the collision can't have
done the tree much good."

Following up comments on the unintentionally humorous effect of
missing letters, Robert Bass recalls: "Just before graduate school
(during the Nixon administration), I was employed as a proofreader
for a typesetting firm. I had worked there for many weeks before I
noticed that the gold-lettered sign on its front door (and proudly
displayed there for a decade) read 'Typsetting'. It was with some
reluctance that I mentioned the problem to the proprietor."

Pete Jones once caused a classic Sic: "Back in the Sixties I worked
for the Press Association as a teleprinter operator. I sent out a
piece which had the Prime Minister, Alec Douglas-Home, referring to
"the high cost of loving". The error was picked up by the columnist
Cassandra [William Connor] in the Daily Mirror and then repeated in
several other dailies."
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