If by some chance it escapes undigested, here's the latest
advance in politically correct global text substitution:
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 90 13:48:39 PDT
From: "Mark Day, MLO1-3/B10, DTN 223-3562 24-Jul-1990 1651" <day@rdvax.enet.dec.com>
Subject: More NYLITE
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ITCHY FINGERS ON THE SEARCH AND REPLACE DESK
Our Correction of the Week comes courtesy of John Hughes at the
Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, who sent this tidbit from the errata
section of July 21's Bee:
`'An item in Thursday's Nation Digest about the Massachusetts
budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put
Massachusetts ``back in the African-American.'' The item should
have said ``back in the black.'''
WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION, PART DUH
Today, the next installment of writing samples from America's
budding intellects, reprinted from ``The World According to Student
Bloopers,'' edited by high school teacher Richard Lederer. Thanks
again to James Denk of the Evansville (Ind.) Courier.
Bible Study ...
`'Pharoah forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw.
Moses led them to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread,
which is bread without any ingredients. Afterwards Moses went up to
Mount cyanide to get the 10 commandments.''
Lives of the Ancients ...
``The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies. They
lived in the Sarah Desert and traveled to Camelot. The Egyptians
built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge rectangular cube.''
Renaissance Men...
The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is famous only because of his plays. He lived at
Windsor Castle with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies
and errors. Writing at the same time was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote
``Donkey Hote.'''
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