Mmmm.
Bullet bitten it must be.
Bullet bitten it must be.
Gangs to close any ideas?
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Nice to see you have used the word "should", not must.
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I know, I know! A train-spotter?
I think grammar checking is bit over your head. I remember you doing a famous one, mixing up "your" and "you're", haha
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It's not just the apostrophe. Spelling mistakes are amusing too.
On the same trip down a high street, I saw two signs, one announcing the arrival of "cheery toms" - I bought some as I was suffering SAD at the time - and the other for "fresh chicken beasts".
On the same trip down a high street, I saw two signs, one announcing the arrival of "cheery toms" - I bought some as I was suffering SAD at the time - and the other for "fresh chicken beasts".
A new Indian restaurant opened once, near-ish to where I live, so we got one of the flyers they had distributed.
Apparently one of their specialities was Tandoori Mixed Girl.
Ah, that old misquote ...People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...
Many don't realise that it's a mistranscription of a saying that has a story behind it.
Many years ago in Africa, there was a wealthy king - who sent his son to have a proper education at Oxford. While at Oxford, the son saw a lovely antique chair in a shop window down the High - and decided it would make a nice throne. So back in his rooms, he'd sit in his throne and pretend to be king.
When his education was over, he went back to Africa and took his throne with him - and he put it next to the King's throne where he would sit as he learned from his father what he would need to do when he became King.
After some years, the old King died, and his son inherited his throne. This left him with a dilemma - two thrones and only one person to sit on them. So he put the one he brought back from England up in the attic and used his father's old throne.
So there he was, doing his kingly stuff - dealing with disputes, listening to petitions, and so on. And one day, the spare throne came though the ceiling, landed on him - and killed him.
His advisers shook their heads in a mix of horror and disbelief. Finally one said to the others ...
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... wait for it, you'll like it ...
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"You know, I really tried to tell him that people who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones"
So this became one of those stories with a moral/warning to it. But somewhere down the line it got mistranscribed into the form commonly used today
Not the only example of that sort of thing.
A handwritten sign in a greengrocer's is one thing, but with items which are printed in large quantities and distributed, how come nobody, at any point in the process, spots the error and does something about it?
The bags said "Isle of White", not "Isle or White" though.
A handwritten sign in a greengrocer's is one thing, but with items which are printed in large quantities and distributed, how come nobody, at any point in the process, spots the error and does something about it?
The bags said "Isle of White", not "Isle or White" though.
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