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<Proofreader>
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1. Your most erudite statement will be posted on a day no one visits the site.
Conversely, the most minor error will be seen and commented on by more people than there are members.

2. The most obscure word you find on the most little-seen internet website, once brought up on a forum, will have been already discussed in 2005 for forty pages.
 
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If you like Schludwiller beer, someone will tell you you're a cretin. Big Grin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iigxaFBTAZ4
 
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Oh, proof, I so much agree. Smile Also, the post you think will bring the highest intellectual conversation will bring no responses; yet one you post hurriedly, and you worry is too fluffy, will develop into an erudite discussion, the likes of which you've never seen!
 
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If you like Schludwiller beer, someone will tell you you're a cretin. Big Grin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iigxaFBTAZ4

The one rule about beer advertising that I have found infallible is this:

"The better the advertisement the worse the beer".

One reason for this is possibly that the chemical fizz brewers spend all their development budget on clever promotion, instead of on the fine ingredients and costly production methods that are needed to produce a proper pint.


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Within a given product range, the one you like most and would buy often is the one that will disappear soonest from the shelves.
Corollary: The one you like least will then take up your favorite's space.
 
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There is an adage known as Muphry's Law that states "if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written". This probably applies to Wordcraft even more than to other sites.


Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
 
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When I was working in the printing industry, before computers, we'd photograph type images what were called "repro copy", a clean reproduction of the customer's text. You had to be very careful handling it since dirtying it made getting a clean negative impossible. So the rule was:

Falling repros always land face-down on the dirtiest portion of the floor.
Any repro that lands face-up, undamaged, will be found in some way defective after it is printed.
 
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