I love you.
Fondly,
Ian Varty
In the old days I used to read the Daily Gleaner, Fredericton's six-day-a-week fish n' chip wrapper/newspaper/budgie cage liner. These days I find the Gleaner to be little more than a bland manila folder for the flyers that accompany the paper. As a newspaper it's very uninspiring. It has no soul. No personality. It does, however, have some great typos from time to time. There have been some real doozies over the years.
I no longer glean the Gleaner as it's been usurped by the internet. To the credit of cbc.ca, where I get most on my on-line news, I rarely, if ever, find a typo except in the 'comments' section where typos are an epidemic. Just because you can start a computer, don't assume that you can spell or craft a coherent sentence. Your comments are proof that you can read, but not proof that you can proofread.
Without my daily fix of the Daily Gleaner, and not a viewer of the Daily Show, I need to find daily humour elsewhere. Enter Kijiji. Let me just say right off the bat that I love Kijiji. I have bought and sold many wonderful items there. I have also found a delightful source of humour in the many typos I regularly see. Take today's image for example. That camera is barley used! I'm assuming that it's not being sold by a grain farmer or an agronomist, and that it's simply a typo. Or could it be the work of someone with a rye sense of humour? <insert wink>
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