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Galadedrid Damodred

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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:34 am


	The other day, I drove by a protest. I caught sight of one sign: p30pl3 b4 pr0f1t$! Obviously, in the Common Tongue, it runs: People before profits! It was a protest about some business thingy or something. It's for the greater good, sure, but the greater good would be greater still if people could actually read what they were saying...

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:09 am


	It's people like that who make me ashamed to be a human. No sarcasm there. The message is agreeable, but if this person wants people to take him/her seriously, (s)he needs to learn to spell.

Nate McCloud

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Angel80272

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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:29 pm


	And I thought a "Make pr0n not war" sign was bad...

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:09 pm


	I like the symbolism of the $ in place of the S to drive the point home. The rest of it needs to go though. I'd put "People before profit$".

Ame Yuki Kaze

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Vynx

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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:08 pm


	Yami no Hitokiri I like the symbolism of the $ in place of the S to drive the point home. The rest of it needs to go though. I'd put "People before profit$". I would have to agree that they are going for a 'numbers' theme more than just having it there for 'txttlk/1337'.