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To Put It Another Way – IV

Now that Agent Orange has been re-elected, here’s a post about what some of his supporters have said.

Pros

There’s an asteroid hurdling toward Earth – I’m going to jump over here, out of its way.

In order to fein a suicide – $10 word – a 37¢ spelling of feign

She had a crude debt of $287,000 –an uneducated and ill-mannered financial obligation

It has never boated well – and that usage did not bode well.

Amateurs

Sewn into the seem of my t-shirt – It seems like it should be seam.

Now selling medical marinara – potential buyers probably won’t notice the spelling.

You are doing a fanaminal job – It’s just not in spelling.

The city is in term oil – Well, lube up the dictionary, again.

Why do they always dial ate my eyes – So you can see that it’s dilate.

I guess I’m just ovary-acting – Sure you are…. Bob

The wife enters as I leave, or visa-versa – and your vice is misspelling

The dinosaurs wen’t extinct – all killed by a greengrocers’ apostrophe.

I have my suspensions that the cat – My suspicions are suspended.

In this SA I am going to discuss – I have no words to discuss his essay.

Office colosed for hafan hour – it doesn’t take close to half an hour to correct that.

It’s just a bunch of golly book – That sounds like gobbledygook to me.

I was a wafer the weekend – and away for a lot of English classes.

If door doesn’t open, giggle the knob – Hah, that’s a laugh

The rain all afternoon Lowe’s the temps – I blame that one on Autocorrect – and inattention

Whoever sat there rilly enjoyed the show – Really, really enjoyed it.

I repeat the nice seeing cream every day – I bet the Catholics are happy about that.

Free fire would – That just burns me up.

The woman mazed a dog – I’m amazed she didn’t use Mace

A couple of methods heads were fighting – see what drugs will do to your language

When I learned you couldn’t spell, I lost entrance – Okay, that one’s a joke…. Barely.

Remember you’re shopping bags – No, I’m not.

Respect are country, speak English – oh deer

You would thing that they just lobbed the top off – Toss in your own jokes.

Hall your pickup – down a long, narrow passage

He rode his bike pasted the car – I’m glued to that story.

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Now Just Back Up A Second!

Backspace

Why is there a backspace key on the keyboard? Actually, my PC doesn’t have one, clearly marked ‘Backspage’’bBackspace’, handily located in the lower right corner of the keyboarkeyboard. Mine is an inconvenierinconverinconveniently located button in the upper right, vaguely labelled(?) with a left-pointing arrow.

The backspace key is obviously therthere so that we can go back and correct our typing errors. Mine usually gets quite a waorkoutworkout. I’d have never passed a high school typing test. With words or strokes being subtracted for errors, I’d have ended up owing words.

Mistype

As I get older, it gets worse. Sometimes it’s as if my hands have a mind of their own. This shows up especially when I’m doing crossword puzzles. Clue – wondrous….solution – epic. The mind says, “That’s spelled E>>>PE…P…I…C” – and I look down, and my fingers have already written the C where the E should be. When I’m typing, the lesftleft little finger really likes to add randonrandom a’s.

I recently read a post like this, where the author had been challenged to publish a document, with strikethroughs to show where mistakes had been made. Like him/her, in several cases, the hands automatically backspaced and corrected, but I then retyped thmistakesthe mistakes to show where they’d been.

How about you, my faithfifaithful readers? Are you all perfect typists, with no strikethroughs? Would any of you like to accept this secodsecond-hand challenge, and publish a little missive to show how much you go through to bring us your perfect prose?

Fat typist