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A school funded by punitive awards from news agencies who can't otherwise be arse' to hire real live proofreaders.
The kids get a live feed of daily news on-the-fly (counting towards Social Studies credit) while checking over the reports for typos and shady statistics; the school board gets supplementary
funding from the news provider, and with any luck the idiot who wrote...
"The airborne car was flying over Ellison Elementary School after taking off from the Vernon airport when the parachute it uses to stay afloat collapsed..." [QMI Agency]
... gets publicly flogged on YouTube for dumbing down the human race.
Canada's flying car
http://globalnews.c...-crashes-in-vernon/
(one of) the embarrassing article(s) in question [Sgt Teacup, May 11 2013]
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//gets publicly flogged on YouTube for dumbing down the human race.// There would be nothing left on TV. |
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'stru'dat, but I like to think "news" and "fiction" aren't synonymous. |
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Yes, i was clearly a flying toaster, not a flying car. |
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Yahoo news would go instantly bankrupt. Example Thai/Cambodia border clash in the Latin America news section... |
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