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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2813440, member: 10461&quot;]Maybe first one, then the other!</p><p><br /></p><p>Or maybe one person did both the laughing <i>and</i> the flogging!</p><p><br /></p><p>Reminds me of a certain patriotic US Civil War token that has a spelling error.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s supposed to say, &quot;THE FLAG OF OUR UNION / IF ANYBODY ATTEMPTS TO TEAR IT DOWN / SHOOT HIM ON THE SPOT&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what actually got engraved was, &quot;... SHOOT HIM ON THE <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><b>SPOOT</b></span>&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which makes me wonder if the errant engraver got himself a boot to the <i>spoot</i>, whatever that is!</p><p><br /></p><p>(They probably weren&#039;t doing <i>too</i> much laughing at the time, with all this talk of shooting people.&nbsp; Ever noticed how folks tend to take things rather seriously in a time of civil war?&nbsp; Funny thing, that.&nbsp; Or ... not.)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.civilwartokens.com/Content/listingImages/20130307/0a7611f3-286d-4861-804c-d8566b3fe609_fullsize.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.civilwartokens.com/Content/listingImages/20130307/8be497c7-b7e8-498c-8b50-8636369a4a56_fullsize.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">Images: <a href="http://www.civilwartokens.com/Listing/Details/641871/Shoot-Him-on-the-Spoot-spelling-error-Patriotic-Civil-War-token-209414-a" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.civilwartokens.com/Listing/Details/641871/Shoot-Him-on-the-Spoot-spelling-error-Patriotic-Civil-War-token-209414-a" rel="nofollow">civilwartokens.com</a>.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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