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Subject: [OM] Re: An English apology !
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:04:16 +0000
Oh, I understand.  At least a couple of times a day I have to resist the urge 
to e-mail the Republican Network (a.k.a Fox) or CNN about some of the atrocious 
mistakes in their annoying "crawlers" across the bottom of the screen.  There 
seems to be employment opportunities for high-school dropouts at both networks. 
 Of course, the folks who watch Fox probably don't notice.

See the smiley!  :-)  "Smiley" rhymes with "O'Reilly."  Oh, really?  Factor 
that in.
  
Walt

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jon Mitchell" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi Everyone,
>  
> Well, sorry.  Seems I might have started something here !  I could sense
> it beginning to get a bit out of control when I turned in last night,
> and I just logged in again to find that this one has grown legs of the
> type Linford Christie would be proud !!  Anyway, my apologies to the
> list for starting a bit of an OT one.  If anyone was offended then my
> sincerest apologies to you.  Particularly Michael Collins - I didn't see
> a smiley, as you say, but I did sense the humour in your reply anyway
> and tried to reply in similar fashion.
>  
> This list is a multi-national one and, as such, many of the members do
> not have English as their first language.  My moan was in no way aimed
> at you guys - it was meant for the people who claim English as their
> first language and yet use such poor examples of it in such a very
> public place, and who really should know better (or shouldn't be
> employed in that job).  Would you employ someone with no knowledge or
> dexterity with cameras to give your precious OM's a CLA ?  Neither would
> I.  Similarly the BBC shouldn't employ people with a poor grasp of the
> English Language to write or type their on-screen messages !
>  
> Anyway, sorry.  I felt the need for a moan yesterday, and feel much
> better for it !  Normal service will resume shortly (ie:  I'll shut up
> !)
>  
> Jon
>  
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