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Dallas, Texas, USA
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The best! Oops, ours is gone … 😉
For our friends, @KStateWBB and @KStateMBB, we've got the 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗕&𝗝: a fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich topped with powdered sugar.
Can you find the usage error? “… the USS Cairo, a Union gunboat that sunk in 1862 … is now displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park.”
From Sign Appreciation Society (Facebook)
Poster writes: "When you see it....
'Dug' this one up from a few years ago in Melbourne, Australia"
If the offending team were some kind of birds, we could likely accept the grammar goof in the closed captions … 🤣 #marchmadness
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Writing Puzzle #43
On some headphones we got recently, the box had the suggestion (threat?) circled in green below.
Write an alternative that makes more sense, retaining the general intent of that line, using no more than 30 characters.
Dear @MerriamWebster, please add "sploot" / "splooting" to your dictionary. This is certainly the year to do it--what with the massive heat wave much of the US is experiencing. Thank you for your consideration.
This is the subject line of an email we received from Family Tree Magazine: "Q: How do you tell the difference between daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes?". What is the grammar goof?
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The word ‘estivate’ can mean either “to spend the summer at a place” or “to pass the summer in a state of mental and physical inactivity.”
(just in case anyone was doing one of these things and wondered what to call it)
