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Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear

Postby cyprusgrump » Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:33 pm

BBC Web Shite wrote:An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.


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Re: Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear

Postby CBBB » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:11 pm

cyprusgrump wrote:
BBC Web Shite wrote:An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.


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:lol: :lol: :lol:


Idiots, they should have immediately started marketing a gigantic grinder!
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Postby Nikitas » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:31 pm

Spell checkers are no substitutes for a poof reader.
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Re: Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear

Postby cyprusgrump » Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:32 pm

CBBB wrote:
cyprusgrump wrote:
BBC Web Shite wrote:An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.


Source

:lol: :lol: :lol:


Idiots, they should have immediately started marketing a gigantic grinder!


:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby Cap » Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:50 pm

What's so controversial about that? In some african countries black people are on the menu, although not always freshly ground. Odd, in australia its deemed racist, in Burkino Faso and Liberia its deemed as a national delicasy.
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Postby Oracle » Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:00 pm

I bet those books that got through will become collectors' items! :D
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Postby Svetlana » Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:00 am

Nikitas wrote:Spell checkers are no substitutes for a poof reader.


Sadly, there are many 'poof readers' on CF
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Postby Gasman » Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:12 am

Sadly, there are many 'poof readers' on CF


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Yes - some of the regular posters do seem to have an unhealthy obsession with bums and what goes up them and insults to mums.
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