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Re: Michael Moore sued for lying?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 4 Aug 2004 20:31:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> What's *5* got to do with it? The name of the paper is pAntagraph, not
> pEntagraph (personally I'd love to publish a paper so titled in, say,
> Holland, MI to get the mundanes all uptight, but I digress)
I'd ask what a pentagraph has to do with either a pentacle or a pentagram...but
I live in Holland, and I know how stupid some of the locals can be about such
things. They did chase an Oscar-winning Dutch film out of town, after all.
What actually might be more fun is to take advantage of the fact that so many
newspapers have such odd names by naming it something like The Holland Ecdysiast
and seeing how long it takes them to figure it out. I figure you might get at
least a year to come up with an excuse that sounds at least semi-legitimate
before some "concerned citizen" comes pounding at your door with torch and
pitchfork in tow.
> or pantOgraph, which was my original typo.
That might have actually been the newspaper's original typo, since "pantograph"
is a real word (machine used to resize/copy maps), while "pantagraph" isn't. Or
they might have been shooting for a distinctive spelling, like using the word
"cheez".
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| (...) eh? What's *5* got to do with it? The name of the paper is pAntagraph, not pEntagraph (personally I'd love to publish a paper so titled in, say, Holland, MI to get the mundanes all uptight, but I digress) or pantOgraph, which was my original (...) (20 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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