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• The following is an ad from a real-life newspaper which appeared four days in a row - the last three hopelessly trying to correct the first day's mistake.
  MONDAY: For sale: R.D. Jones has one sewing machine for sale....
• While looking for a Real Job (read: technical writing), I've been paying the bills doing medical transcription work.
  I came across a book today called "The Empty Laugh Book" by the American Association for Medical Transcription, containing some of the funniest dictated and transcribed quotes from the world of medicine that I've ever encountered....
• A woman from the south was attending a social gathering up north and tried striking up a conversation .
  .. "Where're you all from?" she asked to a group of ladies....
• As the following classified classics will demonstrate, there are often more laughs on the advertising and classified pages than you can find in the cartoons and comic strip
  -Lost: small apricot poodle. Reward. Neutered....
• Many ALMOST Useful Facts: ** Debra Winger was the voice of E.
  T. ** Pearls melt in vinegar ** It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs....
• JOKEMASTER'S HURRICANE SURVIVAL QUIZ 1. How are hurricane's names selected?
  a. Named after Congressmen who are full of hot air b....
• Classified Ad Mistakes The following are actual excerpts from classified sections of city newspapers.
  Illiterate? Write today for free help. Auto Repair Service....
• What follows is a "quiz" a student of mine once showed me (which she'd gotten from a previous teacher, etc.
  ..) It's multiple choice, and if you sort this letter (with upper and lower case disjoint, ie on an ASCII machine) questions and answers will come out next to each other....
• When I was taking a 300 level computer science class in college there was a girl in the class that was a good friend of mine
  he was one of those people that was accademiclly briliant with zero common scence....