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Re: [OT] Friday the 13th



On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:13:15 -0800
Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:16:49PM +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> >> Marc Shapiro wrote:
> >>> Jack Schneider wrote:
> >>>  We are probably the only entities in the universe who spend so much
> >>>> energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins.
> >>>> How bazaar!
> >>> Or, "how bizarre."  "Bazaar" goes with 'The Cathedral and the."
> >>>
> >>> Sorry to nitpick, but I could resist.
> >>>
> >> What's the name of that law that states that any post pointing out  
> >> someone's mistake will always include a typo of its own?
> 
> Avi,
> 
> Are you referring to my mismatched single and double quotes?  Or is 
> there something else that I am not seeing?

You wrote "could resist" rather than "couldn't resist".

[In the spirit of this sub-thread, I preemptively note that my use of
the phrase "rather than" is controversial:

http://www.bartleby.com/64/C002/006.html
]

Celejar
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