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November 21, 2009 [can't resist: pick your favorite] 5. Sic! -- -- --- Isthmus Magazine of 30 October discussed a public Halloween bash, Marjorie Van Handel tells us. It wrote, "The desire to strut your Sexy Noun outfit can be powerful stuff." She wrote, "Most people prefer a Sexy Nun, except perhaps those wild and crazy English majors."

We've been here before, I think, but Charles Patrick felt that the London Free Press of Canada put it so pithily on 5 November: "All pregnant women urged to get shot".

Shirley Thayer feels that, on the evidence of this line from the Daily Beast of 15 November, the US Food and Drug Administration is taking a short-term view: "The FDA is asking nearly 30 similar manufacturers to offer scientific proof that their products are safe within the next 30 days."

Child control, as practiced in Medford, Oregon: Seymour Collins came across this reference in the Mail Tribune of 11 November: "If you own guns and have children, it is important you store them in a locked cabinet."

She must have been a busy seamstress, says Michael Grounds. The Advertiser (Bendigo, Victoria) wrote on 13 November: "A Malaysian woman concealed half a kilogram of heroin in hundreds of buttons on dresses during a flight to Perth, the Australian Federal Police claim. It is alleged about 500 grams of heroin was sewed into 574 buttons on 28 dresses."

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5. Sic! -- -- --- "Orlando Bloom had a wide smile on his face as he helped girlfriend Miranda Kerr into his car last night," began a story in the Daily Mail on 4 September. It went on, "Australian supermodel Miranda showed off the long limbs which helped her bag an A-list boyfriend in a short pink strapless dress, with matching court shoes." The photograph that accompanied the report, Philip Franklin comments, suggested that Mr Bloom had had time to change into something less revealing.

September 12, 2009




 * [[image:http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors//donkey.gif width="100" height="75" caption="WRONG:"]] || =ZERO-SUM GAIN= ||


 * [[image:http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors//owl.gif width="100" height="75" caption="RIGHT:"]] || =ZERO-SUM GAME= ||

The concept of a zero-sum game was developed first in game theory: what one side gains the other loses. When applied to economics it is often contrasted with a “win-win” situation in which both sides can make gains without anyone losing. People who are unaware of the phrase’s origins often mistakenly substitute “gain” for “game.”

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