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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-05 12:43 AM
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Goddammit! It's "congratulations," not "congradulations."
Christ on the half-shell! :mad:
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Tweed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-05 12:44 AM
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1. Who made the mistake?
:shrug:
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-05 12:44 AM
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2. shhhh...
If someone wants to say congrats, then gosh darn it, let them express their sentiment however they wish.

:hi:
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-05 12:45 AM
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3. You know why this started?
Some yahoo thought he'd be cute and combine "congratulations" and "graduation" in the same word. Instead of having to say, for example, "Congratulations on your graduation!" all one has to say is "Congradulations!"

It drives me out of my ever-lovin' tree. It grates on my nerves like the squeal of a stainless steel knife across a glass plate.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-05 12:53 AM
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5. In my second year of college, I worked on the campus newspaper.
One afternoon in May, I unlocked the office and walked up to the layout board, only to find this headline staring me in the face:

CONGRADULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 1986!

I taped a note above it that read, "Congra(T)ulations, goddammit!"

Thankfully, the editor corrected the misatke before that issue went to press. Which was more than she had managed earlier that year, when she wrote an article about the feminist movement titled, NOT THEIR YET. :spank:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-05 12:49 AM
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4. I'M WITH YOU!
Use the freakin' spellcheck or whatever it's called!
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-14-05 12:53 AM
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6. Thank you
Christ on a raft for godssakes.
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