Gobfrey Shrdlu

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Wrote Denys Parsons, compiler of Funny Ho Ho and Funny Fantastic:

Note that Gobfrey Shrdlu [the evil genius who causes all the misprints and howlers which plague printers and sub-editors] intervenes where he knows the shoe will pinch most.

Truer words were never spoken. The following was seen in the column for graduates' news in the University of Edinburgh magazine:

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Esp. (we think) die neue, deutsche kommasetzurg u. kleinschreiburg.