atw: Re: website owner sues web designer

Irene,
 
This reminds me of a story I read once, and of course is possibly
apocryphal, of a series of unfortunate Freudian slips when a journalist
was told by his editor to write an obituary for a recently-deceased
soldier who the journo knew had a reputation for being a heavy drinker
and for lacking backbone during his fighting career.
 
The journo, intending to write that the soldier was "battle-scarred",
inadvertently wrote that he was "battle-scared". 
 
Then, in response to complaints about this from the outraged relatives,
he issued an apology, and wrote that he meant to say that the soldier
was in fact "bottle-scarred" !
 
Regards,
John.
 
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A PROMINENT plastic surgeon from the eastern suburbs of Sydney has won
his case against a website designer over unacceptable nudity and bad
grammar.
Howard De Torres, who lists among his areas of expertise rhinoplasty,
breast enlargement and otoplasty (correcting bat ears), was awarded
$4278.50 against a Sydney web designer, Toni Fitzgerald, whose taste,
grammar and spelling failed to convey the fact that the plastic
surgeon's skills advertised on his website "were professional services
of some gravity".
 
Read the full story at 
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/website-scars-top-surgeon/2006/08/18
/1155408025299.html#
 
Regards
Irene Wong

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