Can't the morans working for CNN spell?

[It was not a pretzel]

I was watching the run up to the recall the other day when a caption comes up with the word...


AMUCK!!! WTF is AMUCK?

It's AMOK you f**kwads!!

[HornBuckler]

1. Amuck Is A Variant

It's Actually Accepted To Use Amuck For Amok - Well, According To Webster Anyway

[It was not a pretzel]

2. must be American

as apposed to English.

I feel like a right tool now, thanks. ;)

[HornBuckler]

3. Didn't Want To Be A Schmuck

About Amok

(Sorry - It's Late Here)

[It was not a pretzel]

4. you weren't

i felt the need for a rant and chose the most harmless thing I could rant about. I should check up on American spelling before I spout off again.

[Zech Marquis]

5. no surprise the fools need spellchecker more than me

these are the same idiots who asked to talk with Chick Hern after the Kobe Bryant incident started..except Chick Hern had been dead for like, almost a year?! :eyes:

[Dogmudgeon]

6. Tales from the Spellechecker

About two years ago, GOP factotum Niger Innes got his name munged on CNN.

Can you guess the highly offensive racial epithet his first name was changed to?

--bkl
No, it wasn't changed to "Rush"

[trotsky]

7. Not the first spelling error, that's for sure.

Those tickers have been prone to all sorts of spelling and grammatical errors. I'm sure they just have the news interns sitting there watching the AP feed for headlines and typing them in.

[Name removed]

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[Devils Advocate NZ]

10. I love the smell of freeper in the morning!

If you are refering to his subject line and the word "moran" it is because of a famous photograph of a freeper pro-war protestor. He carried a sign that said something like "Get a life, Morans!"

Ever since then, when refering to right wing idiots we use the term "moran" to differentiate the normal morons from the profoundly brain damaged freeper types.

I'm sure you know what I mean.

[peekaloo]

11. irony deficiency

I smell sulfur! ;-)

[NicoleM]

9. No, they can't.

I am a grammar Nazi, and I have never heard that "amuck" is an acceptable spelling. I would have wigged out, too.

They can't spell Condoleezza, either.

[FlashHarry]

12. That's nothing. Take a look at this classic:

Way to go, MSNBC!!! :crazy:

[Dogmudgeon]

14. Da Classic!

And still DA BEST!

Niger is also the son of Roy Innes of the NAACP, and no relation to Roy Thinnes, finger-festishist and '60s UFO investigator.

--bkl

[CO Liberal]

13. I Ran Amuck Once

And let me tell you .... I ran a GOOD muck!!!!!

:-)