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"No baby's dummy's, toys or other people on the photo"

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iknowwhoiam · 19/06/2009 13:22

Just letting you all know what the Passport Office won't allow on your photograph.

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brimfull · 19/06/2009 13:23

shocking

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bronze · 19/06/2009 13:54

I spotted that too and I'm not a pedant. As you have probably noticed.

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Iklboo · 19/06/2009 14:01

You know that TV show 'Who Wants to Be A Superhero' where sad folk in the States invent their own superhero, design a costume etc?

I'd have to be Apostrophenia

'Where there's a possessive or contraction, Apostrophenia will be in action!'

Ahem

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iknowwhoiam · 19/06/2009 14:01

I've no problem with people making mistakes when posting on the internet/emailing etc., but you'd hope Government departments could get it right!

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iknowwhoiam · 19/06/2009 14:02

lol Iklboo. I think I'd have to fight you for that character!

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iknowwhoiam · 19/06/2009 14:08

Perhaps I could be The SAS - Superfluous Apostrophe Slayer.

  • "If there's more than one, apostrophe - be gone!"


(yes, it really has taken all this time to come up with that )
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Iklboo · 19/06/2009 14:09

Is OK - I've been thinking about Apostrophenia for a loooooooooooonnnnnnnnng time

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