On Mar 19, 2:35*pm, wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:29:10 -0400, "h"
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:42:11 -0400, "h"
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:15:05 -0700 (PDT), Harry K
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Even the construction of your 'box' shows it wasn't. *Clearly covered
with the same stuff as the baloon and thus too flimsy to hold
_anything_ heavier than a few pounds and that would ahve to be spread
out.

Harry K

Oh, damn! Looks like you are COMPLETELY WRONG!

http://fwnextweb1.fortwayne.com/ns/e...ent/uploads/20....

He can't spell "baloon", so why would he know anything about how they're
made?

I don't generally worry about typo's on usenet.

Shrug. If you make the same typo 50 times, it's not a "typo". And the plural
of "typo" is "typos", not "typo's", which is the possessive. Yes, as a
matter of fact I did used to teach English. *

I didn't count how many times anybody used baloon where you or I might
use balloon. It's not a way to win an argument in usenet, where few
bother with spellcheck, most posts are casual conversation, and many
participants do not speak English as their first language.

Typo's is short for "Typographical Errors" *- the apostrophe is
correct, and does not make it possessive.- Hide quoted text -


That would be true if it were a contraction (do not = don't), but it's
an abbreviation, not a contraction. You can have a "typo" or multiple
"typos".