This just in! A dog walks on its paws. It’s breaking news like this that keeps me coming back to the Yahoo! front page:
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Because walking on a tail is too hard
March 31, 2012 — Laura
Posted in Uncategorized. Tags: editing, funny writing errors, funny writing mistakes, proofreading, writing, Yahoo!, Yahoo! front page. 2 Comments »
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April 1, 2012 at 4:11 am
Hey….how come I didn’t make the news for walking on legs? Sheesh. Danged ol’ media! ;-)
April 1, 2012 at 8:03 am
I guess this just proves that the lamestream media is, indeed, lame.