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Alberta touts holidays at home
Province launches $5.6M campaign
Sean Myers, Calgary Herald
Published: Friday, April 25, 2008

Posted gasoline prices reached $122.4 and even $125.9 at some service stations on Thursday. Facing that reality, many Calgarians are planning to stay close to home this summer.

You moron. It’s 122.4ยข not $122.4

Note how the symbols go on the other side of the number and change the meaning drastically.

2 Responses to “Newspaper Reporters are grade school dropouts?”

  1. You gotta admit, though, a hundred and twenty bucks a litre would put a little bit of a dent in the ol’ road trip urge…

    arto

  2. Yes, that sentence is even more apropos, had it been true on the pricing bit . . .

    Trever

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