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September 19, 2006
Topics people, cheese, kids, book, web, children, sad, email, funny, e-mail, legs, leaves, private, post, hand, drivers, restaurant, death, couple, reuters, world and woman
British writer Lynne Truss has set up a Web site featuring a collection of funny examples of misplaced punctuation. The author of the popular 2003 book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance to Punctuation" delights in grammatical errors that completely change the intended meaning of written communication. For example, Truss publishes an item on a restaurant menu gone wrong. What was supposed to be "Goat Cheese Salad . . . tomato, onions, goat cheese" turned into something else entirely with a couple of extra s's and an erroneous additional comma: "Goats Cheese Salad . . . tomatoes, onions, goats, cheese. "
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September 13, 2006
An Australian man could be persecuted for allegedly sending two billion spam emails advertising Viagra. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) announced that it obtained a search warrant to inspect the home as part of the spam investigation.
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September 4, 2006
Topics world, play, family, people, man, email, e-mail, dance, happy, boys, friends, television, young, boy and reuters
A Nepali boy's hope of being declared the world's shortest man was dismissed on Monday by Guinness World Records saying he was too young to qualify. The 14-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar, who is only 20 inches tall and weighs just 10 pounds, will heave to wait another four years before he can be considered for the record. Thapa's family and local people had even set up a foundation in Thapa's name to collect funds for the infant-sized boy. They said they had raised around $4,000 so far by organizing shows where people can watch him dance and play.
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September 4, 2006
RadioShack employees would learn the fate of their job, and if they would be terminated or not, in an e-mail. In a corporate downsizing, RadioShack Corp. sent 403 employees an e-mail telling them their services were no longer needed.
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August 30, 2006
Coffee giant, Starbucks, has canceled its free iced coffee e-mail offer after the messages were sent nearly worldwide. According to a press release, "An email offering a free Starbucks iced coffee was distributed to a limited group of Starbucks partners (employees) in the Southeast United States on Wednesday, August 23, 2006, with instructions to forward to their group of friends and family. "
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