[AJD] Being really tacky today

[steve sewell]

At 01:03 PM 1/14/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>I'll apologize for being tacky up front on this one. But here goes! I know
>that I misspell words here on ATIS occasionally (maybe often) but sometimes
>it is due to my poor typing skills.  And I don't worry about it a whole lot
>due to a bit of feeling that an occasionally misspelled word isn't going to
>offend too many list members. But I just read an eBay listing for a JD 40 T
>that really struck me as being indicative of what we are graduating from
>high school these days. The person originating the listing admits to
>attending college at the present time. I counted at least 10 obvious
>spelling errors in the listing. He is from Ohio, it appears, but is
>attending college in NY supposedly.


Dean: That last sentence says it all. Posted by a college student at 
21:13PST (that's midnight here in Ohio), on a Friday night.  Most likely 
posted after a night on the town driving up the price of Old Milwaukee 
stock. (-;

- Steve



Steve Sewell
Albany, Ohio USA
sewell at atis.net
sewell at ohio.edu