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ashling

(25,771 posts) Mon Nov 24, 2014, 12:59 PM Nov 2014

BREAKING: change needs salt and pepper ... and ketchup - lots of ketchup

It is amazing what you can learn from grading papers. LOL

I just read a paper containing the following blockbuster information:

"Change is inedible in society ..."

I just thought you would like to know that

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BREAKING: change needs salt and pepper ... and ketchup - lots of ketchup (Original Post) ashling Nov 2014 OP

kick ashling Nov 2014 #1

I love the mis-use of words that actually almost make sense. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2014 #2

It's a doggy-dog world. WinkyDink Nov 2014 #3

LOL. I taught elementary school for 8 years. Reading what the students wrote and looking at their livetohike Nov 2014 #4

Mine are college kids ashling Nov 2014 #5

Oh! Try to keep a sense of humor then. Preserve some of your livetohike Nov 2014 #9

Well, for all "intensive" purposes, was he given free "reign" to get creative with the english MADem Nov 2014 #6

Well, sometimes it's hard to swallow. In_The_Wind Nov 2014 #7

Paper currency is inedible too. nt Xipe Totec Nov 2014 #8

ashling

(25,771 posts)

1. kick

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 03:21 PM

Nov 2014

because

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

2. I love the mis-use of words that actually almost make sense.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 03:45 PM

Nov 2014

The republicans would agree with that sentence.

One of my favorite mis-reads came about because doctor notes were spoken into a recorder and then typed up by a transcriber, for the chart.
Transcriber's notes said that the patient had "gang green" of the foot.

which, when you stop to think about it......