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Chris -- 2018-04-11
One decent salami and the whole thing’ll end up on some beach in Cuba! Nice! Who’d want to live at sea level? Not I!
You’d think that this was a one off but
I was so proud of him, the way he went to Japan and helped and stayed there, after the earthquake and the salami
Of course there are lots of anecdotes of people thinking they’d heard “a giant salami” and children misunderstanding the word too. But here we have two people who seem to think the word is “salami”. Semantics please!
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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Wonderfully funny! But the first suggestion by Google’s spell check for ‘sanami’ is salami.
Here are some other silicisms that I take the opportunity to slip in. These should really go somewhere else, but what the heck.
So, let’s just assume that—I deem Mr. Engelhart doesn’t really seem to have much to do over there today. To be the head hunt show of spending on priority programming, would he administer these three sources of money for priority programming?
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/transcripts/2007/tb0829.htm
I’m rarely completely honest with people its one of many of my faults and everything i do uselly is only done because i have a all tearier motive yeah big words but all in all to the people who are my friends even through i may dis them and be a pain they are not really friends it would be more like their part of my dysfunctional family think god for spell check really it could be worse, it could be raining
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I’M ALWAYS VERY DUBIOUS WHEN MR. CLINTON GETS INVOLVED IN ANYTHING BECAUSE THERE’S ALWAYS AN YOU WILL TEARIER MOTIVE.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary … =465999301
(that one is a voice transcript error – a yalt??)
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISTS ARE NOT THAT PNEUMSEROUS BUT THEY HAVE WON THE PR WAR SO THAT NOT JUST ON K STREET WHERE THE LOBBYISTS ARE IN WASHINGTON BUT ON MAIN STREET WHERE JOE AND JANIE SIX PACK LIVE THEY BELIEVE DRILLING FOR AMERICAN OIL IS BAD.
7:36 ON THE OTHER ULT TEARIER MOTIVE THE UNABOMBER HOSTILITY TO AMERICANIST INDUSTRIOUS.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary … =553598481
THE PROPOGANDA TOOL THAT THE TALIBAN USES, FOREIGN FORCES OCCUPYING OUR COUNTRY, A MUSLIM LAND AND THAT THE MOTIVE IS ANAL TERRIER MOTIVE WILL BE—AN ALTERIOR MOTIVE, BUT PARTNERS AND TAKING THE LEAD IN PROVIDING SECURITY.
C-span transcript
WHO NEEDS TO HAVE THINGS THAT ARE WITHOUT CLINTON nBASICALLY ANYONE WHO ‘S DIAGNOSED A SILLY ACT DISEASE n% HESITATION % HESITATION THE CANCER SURVIVORS HAVE BEEN nPUT ON CLINTON FREE DIET
http://www.tastydays.com/videos/gluten-free-cupcakes
Gluten intolerance is thirty times more prevalent this silly act disease and … They diagnosed him with what’s called silly act disease
http://www.google.com/search?q=silly+ac … 67&bih=846
it accuses Hasselbeck of—word for word contents.—have brought a book that she wrote on silly act disease
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“Think God for spell check.” Lovely self-reference.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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