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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsQuestion for DU spelling/grammar folks: Is this guy one of yours?
Man tries to blow up Salem sign with typo on it
http://www.kgw.com/news/Salem-man-upset-over-typo-makes-bomb-threat-209506651.html
SALEM -- An Oregon official says a man brought a pressure cooker he claimed was a bomb into the state Teacher Standards and Practices Commission office in Salem and told employees he had tried to blow up their sign because it was misspelled.
SALEM -- An Oregon official says a man brought a pressure cooker he claimed was a bomb into the state Teacher Standards and Practices Commission office in Salem and told employees he had tried to blow up their sign because it was misspelled.
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Question for DU spelling/grammar folks: Is this guy one of yours? (Original Post)
ashling
Jun 2013
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ret5hd
(20,491 posts)1. knot mein.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)2. I didn't do it
Just sayin'
Brigid
(17,621 posts)4. Don't know the guy.
But maybe we should start a club here on DU.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)5. The "d" is silent. No need to include it....
The sign is fine, no need to waste a perfectly good pressure cooker on it.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)6. He should have noun better
Pressure cooker bombs are for errors much more serious than dropping a letter from a conjunction.