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#1 2007-08-23 13:48:36

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1224

'craptrap' for 'claptrap'

Of the 1,240 Google citations many are deliberate wordplay, but there there remains much evidence of genuine usage. Although I willingly concede ‘craptrap’ may be no more than a typo, there does seem to be an awful lot of them…

Bowling for Columbine: what a load of craptrap. Nothing about it was ‘documentary’ in nature; most of it was staged. The scene with Chuck Heston was almost …
forum.signonsandiego.com/printthread.php?t=66&page=103&pp=100 – 136k – Cached

Please don’t give me that leftist craptrap comparing corporations and stockholders to unions and public employees in closed shops. ...
www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view … cleID=3106 – 18k – Cached

Many Americans – at least the kind who get their news off of the Internet rather than from sitting wide-eyed before the TV set imbibing the liberal craptrap …
www.lewrockwell.com/greenhut/greenhut5.html – 13k – Cached

Vicki Frey, what PC craptrap have you been eating that you think having a father isn’t important? There have been an equal number of studies indicating …
donklephant.com/2006/12/06/mary-cheney-is-expecting/feed/ – 24k – Cached

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