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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:45 pm    Post subject: Gah! CNN is DUMN Reply with quote


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LOLN!
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another CNN story (on TV), about the recent Supreme Court ruling, threw up a super reading "THE RIGHT TO BARE ARMS". I don't think a pun was intended.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Having a large journalism program at PSU, it always confused me as to how they could be so horrible with the Engish language, let alone their lack of knowledge to American History.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh my. Rolls Eyes

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's especially funny is that it's spelled correctly in the copy just a few words down from the headline. Laugh
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thay obviusley dun't hav spelchex.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The first line of copy that follows is trying too hard and does a face-plant.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dhouston67 wrote:
Another CNN story (on TV), about the recent Supreme Court ruling, threw up a super reading "THE RIGHT TO BARE ARMS". I don't think a pun was intended.

I, for one, am quite thankful for the right to wear sleeveless shirts during the summer. Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dhouston67 wrote:
Another CNN story (on TV), about the recent Supreme Court ruling, threw up a super reading "THE RIGHT TO BARE ARMS".


Old Wizard of Id comic strip:

Duke: Your Majesty, the peasants demand the right to bear arms. What should we do?

King: Rip off their sleeves.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

the court was merely responding to complaints from the "dress code police" about Larry the Cable Guy.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh yow . . . trying to read that clunker of a sentence underneath the headline is just too painful. please tell me some intern wrote this . . .
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