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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.
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A gazillion years ago my teacher at uni wrote this on the blackboard (might've been a whiteboard, don't remember):
Paris in the
the spring
He then proceeded to ask random people to read it out loud. This went on for several minutes, while I was in the back row listening to all these people repeating "Paris in the spring" and losing my mind thinking I was hallucinating the second "the".
Conclusion: not a new thing at all, humans have always been clumsy fools, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Edit: I just realised I messed up the formatting on the crucial part of this post. See above: clumsy fool
Just a matter of being distracted for a second ("will pounce on.... What? Uhuh? [...on on on...] Yeah, cool, bye. What was I writing? Oh yeah: '... on you....'". And then you proofread and miss the repeated word.