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Pakistani jailed for poor spelling
2006-03-02
NICOSIA: You might have the best forgery skills in the world, but it is not much use if you cannot spell. A Cyprus court jailed Pakistani national Fazal Ur Rehman for eight months for forgery after police spotted spelling mistakes on stamps on an Afghan passport he was carrying, otherwise it was a near-perfect copy, the Cyprus Mail said. "Ministry" was spelt "Menistry" and the first "n" was missing from government, the newspaper said. "The passport looked perfect and professionally made almost deemed original by forensics," a police officer told a magistrate in Nicosia.
Posted by:Fred

#8  ahhh the woes and trials of bootlegging Christian Dior! lol .com
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-02 21:18  

#7  *giggle*
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-02 21:12  

#6  Heh, tw. Dunno if it's a Urban Legend or not, but the story I heard was that a company in China was making knockoffs of Reebok shoes and a shipment was stopped by US Customs in Long Beach. They had never heard "Reebok" spoken correctly - and the Customs agent had never heard of Leebok, lol. The shipment was confiscated. Or so the story goes...
Posted by: .com   2006-03-02 18:34  

#5  Leebok?
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-02 17:12  

#4  Gadfry, imagine what would happen if he misspelled a passage from the koran. The mind boggles!
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-02 15:25  

#3  Imagine the embarassment when they learn the official documents have the same mis-spellings!
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-03-02 08:45  

#2  Ima worried for Mucky. . .
Posted by: Doc8404   2006-03-02 08:23  

#1  Leebok.
Posted by: .com   2006-03-02 03:26  

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