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My calendar yesterday had a New Yorker cartoon of an annoyed man in a restaurant saying to the waiter "I'll have the misspelled 'Ceasar' salad and the improperly hyphenated veal osso-buco."
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Whilst dining at the local tavern I mentioned that they had spelt espresso incorrectly. They had 'expresso' (perhaps the idea was to serve it quickly.) I was amused however when the next week i noted they had corrected the mistake. The board now reads "esspresso'. Hate to see them try cupachinno.
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 I know how he feels. There is a new store near my office that calls itself Drum Bazar in big red letters. I have this great need to bring a paintbrush and red paint, and add the missing A.
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Then there was the printed sign at the local PO that had the word 'seperate' corrected, uncorrected, corrected, and uncorrected through about 3 or 4 penciled-in cycles.
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3 penciled-in cyclesWell, at least they had the good sense to use a pencil, Faldage. BTW any Paris Hilton wannabe knows "expresso" is something you sip, but never spell. 
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In the early ‘70s my friend and I auditioned for a “wandering minstrels” job at a Mexican restaurant. We got the job and were asked the name of our duo. We hadn’t a name, but after a moment’s thought we can up with “The Elixirs”, knowing the effect that their food had on the hapless diners. When we came to play a day or so later, we saw the little marquee displaying: “Tonight The Ixlers”, and so instantly became the only surviving descendants of that brand new lost ancient civilization.
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corrected...3 or 4 penciled-in cycles.
Oooooo, hubby hates it when I do that. But, but, sometimes, it's just so grating when you see a glaring error taunting you.
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it's just so grating when you see a glaring error taunting you.There is nothing so taunting as a grating error glaring you in the eye, belMar. Unless, of course, it's a glaring taunt which is error free. That would really grate.
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and so instantly became the only surviving descendants of that brand new lost ancient civilization. ¡ !
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There was another one on the time sheet for the Friends of the Library volunteer book sorters that went through several oscillations of 'fewer than n hours' and 'less than n hours' until I declared that we were measuring time, not counting hours.
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