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    I found this quote in Foolish Words, in The Unengaged Brain section of the book. Its worth getting too, there are some doozies in there including quite a few from George Dubbya...

    The Roman Catholics claim to be making material advances in Africa, particularly in Algeria, where they have as many as 185,000 adherents and a Missionary Society for Central Africa. During the past three year they have obtained a firm footing in the interior of the continent, and have sent forth several missionaries into the equatorial regions. They are accustomed to begin their work by buying heathen children and educating them. The easiest way to and best way to prepare them is to first wipe them with a clean towel; then place them in dripping pans and backe them until they are tender. Then you will have no difficulty in rubbing them through the sieve, and will save them by not being obliged to cut them into slices and cook for several hours.

    A typesetting gaffe in a Montreal paper in the nineteenth century, when the setter mixed up an article on Catholic advances in Africa with a recipe for making tomato ketchup


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    Wooooops is an understatement.
    I recon somone got fired over that one
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    yea thats a real "please explain"

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