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Dey Toke Our Gramar

Posted on January 18, 2012 by jputhuff
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A new one: Toke as the past tense of take. Not a typo since Louie does this twice.

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Less F-ing, More Learning Needed

Posted on August 22, 2011 by jputhuff
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Thanks to anonymous!

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Stick to Games, Fellas

Posted on June 14, 2011 by jputhuff
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It’s obvious that the English language is not your specialty . . .

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Posted in Language, Punctuation, Spelling, Typographical | Tagged Count the errors, duh, It's, Jeff Puthuff, Marketing, Marketing Gaffes, possessives, Punctuation, Spelling | Leave a reply

Fullproof? A New Word!

Posted on February 6, 2011 by jputhuff
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Failure to comprehend, example two. What does this guy think fullproof means (in this context)?

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What Would Jeff Do?

Posted on August 11, 2010 by jputhuff
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This person:

wrote the below in the item description. Soldiers, fight!

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Yummy Golden Carrots!

Posted on July 21, 2009 by jputhuff
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carrot

I’m pretty sure this was not meant as a joke. (From Flight Blogger comments.)

Gold_carrot (courtesy HMForces)

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