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WTOP needs a proofreader
Posted by: ugh... ()
Date: November 26, 2014 11:09AM

http://www.wtop.com/1228/3749593/Thanksgiving-Day-dinning-alternatives


This is probably the third such instance I've seen this week. Unless, of course, they are talking about making a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise on Thanksgiving Day.

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Re: WTOP needs a proofreader
Posted by: Also Seen On WTOP ()
Date: November 26, 2014 11:20AM

"Top Ten Choices For Desert After Thanksgiving Diner, And For Super The Day After"

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Re: WTOP needs a proofreader
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: November 26, 2014 11:37AM

I voluntear to be the wpot poofreeder. What is the celerary and how many ours a weak?

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Re: WTOP needs a proofreader
Posted by: ugh... ()
Date: November 26, 2014 12:15PM

They eventually changed the headline in the story, but the old headline can be found in the link text.

http://www.wtop.com/209/3749314/Buffalo-melt-could-be-mean-evacuations

It used to read:

"Buffalo melt could be mean evacuations"

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Re: WTOP needs a proofreader
Posted by: XTwmP ()
Date: November 26, 2014 12:18PM

ugh... Wrote:
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> "Buffalo melt could be mean evacuations"

Have you ever had a buffalo chicken melt? "Evacuations" are pretty much guaranteed.

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Re: WTOP needs a proofreader
Posted by: ugh.... ()
Date: November 26, 2014 12:23PM

XTwmP Wrote:
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> ugh... Wrote:
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> > "Buffalo melt could be mean evacuations"
>
> Have you ever had a buffalo chicken melt?
> "Evacuations" are pretty much guaranteed.


True and they could be mean! LOL.

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Re: WTOP needs a proofreader
Posted by: jerry ()
Date: November 26, 2014 05:06PM

Like most news outlets, they take advantage of the surplus of mostly useless journalism diplomas being produced. Those articles are mostly written by recent college grads making about $12 an hour. Apparently that's not enough to incentivize them to run spell check.

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Re: WTOP needs a proofreader
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: November 26, 2014 05:18PM

Fox News Wrote:
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> I voluntear to be the wpot poofreeder. What is the
> celerary and how many ours a weak?


Good knews!!!! I have ben highered!!!!!! I benign twomorrow.

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Re: WTOP needs a proofreader
Posted by: Jornolist ()
Date: November 26, 2014 05:26PM

Fox News Wrote:
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> I voluntear to be the wpot poofreeder. What is the
> celerary and how many ours a weak?


Is that ebonics? Are you from Ferguson? I don't think The Glass Enclosed Nerve Center is going to pay for relo.

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