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World Wide Words

December 19th, 2004

“Seen as part of a Toys-R-Us advertisement in the Daily Telegraph in Nov 2004: ‘Pictures are for illustrative purposes only.’ You don’t say …”

From Michael Quinion’s wonderful World Wide Words site, which I’ve written about before. Well-worth browsing, or try the Surprise me! link.

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