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Later in the day, after what the Post describes as the VP's "frantic" phone calls back to company HQ, he changed his account to say that the software in the video really did have the browser removed, but that the screen tag usually signifying browser operation had mistakenly not been removed.
Later, Austin mistakenly pours himself a cup of "coffee" from a jar containing a Fat Bastard stool sample.
To be sure, there is nothing to justify the assumption that the names of the numbers emerged in numerical order from the primeval ooze of language; but one might mistakenly conclude that the very first ordinal to be talked about in English was eightieth , and this at a time when only a small percentage of the population had a life expectancy of half that.
The story shows a not-altogether well-thought out applications process: for example, she decided not to pursue Bryn Mawr merely because she learned some other black students at her school were also urged to apply by a black student at the college, and was interested in another much lesser school because she mistakenly thought it was free.
Re Timothy Noah's "Chatterbox" item "William Jefferson Clinton": Joel Achenbach explained the three name serial killer phenomenon in a column included in his book Why Things Are . Newspapers use all three names for such people to minimize the number of people with similar names mistakenly thought by distant cousins, high-school sweethearts, and potential employers to be murderers (and to minimize possible lawsuits from the John Kennedy Gacys and Karla Onderdunk Tuckers of the world).
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