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Robert Nowall
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If this kind of incident happens, it really is the end for typewriters:

http://www.switched.com/2007/12/04/typewriter-mistaken-for-bomb-shuts-down-street/

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skadder
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What's a typewriter? Is that a writer who can only write a few different sorts of characters?
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JeanneT
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I particularly liked this part:

quote:
The package was doubly suspicious since the only people with access to the cage would have been county officials.
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InarticulateBabbler
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Somebody should let Mike know. His cat is perilously close to one of those weapons of mass destruction!
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Come on, you know that Mike's cat is the one most likely to plant a bomb.
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InarticulateBabbler
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Well, yeah, that's true...
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JeanneT
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You're confused. That's a typewriter of mass destruction.
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Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
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the TYPEWRIGHTER is mighter than the Sword. or the WMD.
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Robert Nowall
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The tragedy for me, personally, is that, if this is what happens to typewriters, it means I can't bring one along on trips anymore.

I've got a couple portable record players around. I wonder how they'd play with the bomb squad...

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LOL! oh man thats awesome. but you have to assmue someone on the bomb squad was like, "Damn i feel like an idiot, but at least it's an easy day for me."

or when he get home:
"Daddy! what did you do today?"
"We'll sweetie, daddy was told a typewriter was a bomb, but it wasn't."
"What's a tyepwriter?"
"Its what people used to write papers when i was your age."
"but why couldn't they computer?"
"Umm... They didn't have computers back then."
Shocked: "Really? then how did they use the internet?"

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WouldBe
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I was going to post this, but changed my mind, so don't look:

Typewriters built before 1944 were factory-rigged to explode if you typed dubesor.

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are you sure that wasn't rube-asaur, wouldbe?
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WouldBe
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Rosebud, Deb. Rosebud. (I told you not to look.)
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