Uh oh. Isn’t it spelled “guv’mint”?
(KTVU’s “10 O’Clock News,” Friday, June 23, 2006).
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"You want it to be one way. But it's the other way."
"You want it to be one way. But it's the other way."
Uh oh. Isn’t it spelled “guv’mint”?
(KTVU’s “10 O’Clock News,” Friday, June 23, 2006).
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You’re taking this out of context. He was just about to choose a consonant. But I AM concerned with his shameless abuse of Mustache Helper.
Gee…That is a good one. Well we get the point. Isn’t that good enough? Isn’t IT? I like the Mustache Helper line. Wish I’d thought of it. Can I use it? The line–that is.
It still doesn’t top my favorite flub, letting this doozy slide by:
Inuit Named in [Tech] Scandal
As one of our reports said, “They are one of the kindest, gentlest peoples on earth and yet among them lurks a few conniving cads.” Or something like that. The hed was supposed to read “Intuit Named in [I don’t recall exactly which] Scandal.”
I remember that Inuit headline. That’s in a class by itself.