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Posted on 01/07/2017 10:29:08 PM PST by Timpanagos1
A social media administrator at Yahoo Finance needs a copy editor — badly.
The news site's Twitter account shared an inconspicuous news story Thursday evening about President-elect Donald Trump wanting to expand the U.S. navy — but a misplaced "n" in the tweet's caption turned the whole thing on its head in a disastrous manner.
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I saw Innis respond to that NBC error. He handled it with dignity, class, and marvelous, disarming and detoxifying humor. He said something to the effect that he had noticed the error but said nothing; then he added: “I’ve been called that before.”
That’s silly. Everybody knows they can’t swim well.
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what kind of naming scheme is used for the clittoral ships?
HA!...Post. Of. The. Day. Fabulous!..
The lazy sloppy hallmark of media, politicians, and dumbed down public will be difficult to eradicate. Nevermind fact checking.
The misspelled tweet stayed live on the account for at least 20 minutes, garnering an unusually high number of retweets and comments dripping with bitter sarcasm.
What kind of naming scheme is used for the clittoral ships?
See Enchante's post #39 and the end of my post #47 above.
Other proposals include:
Ha!
The primary mission of the USS Obama would be:
White (or rainbow) flag deployment, transport of illegal aliens into U.S. ports, and assisting Greenpeace to save the whales in a carbon neutral manner.
Obama was never in the military, so I doubt he will have a Navy ship named after him.
And .. the Reagan.
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