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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: "Content" Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 6:15 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	New "content" on the home page.
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: "Content" Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 7:35 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	Like A.N. Murrell, I hate most of those Internet abbreviations, especially the ones I don't know. But I rather like some Internet slang. "Googled" seems a useful word, for instance. In the early days of the Net, before the Web was invented, people used to "finger" each other. Not sure if I like that one.<p>BTW, that reminds me of a headline that got into the newspaper over my objections years ago:<p>"Suspect fingers himself in murder"
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: "Content" Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 7:38 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ADKbrown: "Suspect fingers himself in murder"<hr></blockquote><p>wtf. Who ordered that in?<p>[ December 23, 2002: Message edited by: blanp ]</p>
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: "Content" Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 8:46 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by blanp: <p>wtf. Who ordered that in?<p>[ December 23, 2002: Message edited by: blanp ]<hr></blockquote><p>The news editor, who apologized the next day after getting chewed out by ME. The news editor was a good guy who had a lapse in judgment. The rim editor was notorious for trying to slip double-entendres past the slot.
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rumymommy	Post subject: Re: "Content" Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2002 12:38 am
Joined: Tue Aug 06, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 138	Back to the origin of the thread, do you really want to type "Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off" instead of ROTFLMAO every time you want to sound cliche and foolish? IMHO, WTF does it matter if people want to get sloppy in their play time. Besides, it isn't that far a stretch for most people to write poorly on the Internet. Just think of how many mistakes we as copy editors correct every night. And those are "professional" writers. (Which just goes to show, even a rudimentary knowledge of proper grammar doesn't pay.)
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