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#1 2008-09-24 14:39:28

ian in hamburg
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Grizzly for grisly

A reader said I should send this one in to you after she read it on my blog.

Spotted in the wild, or more specifically – Page 7 of the Financial Times, Sept. 22, 2008:

http://lettershometoyou.wordpress.com/2 … idiculous/

(link goes to post with picture and ft.com link)

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#2 2008-09-24 15:31:24

JonW719
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Re: Grizzly for grisly

This one popped up not long ago in promotional materials from a publisher for a book about a “grizzly” murder. (It had nothing to do with bears…). :-)


Feeling quite combobulated.

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#3 2008-09-24 15:47:21

ian in hamburg
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Re: Grizzly for grisly

Not even a guy named Adams? ;-)

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