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Vogon_Glory

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6. Calling a pocket battleship a destroyer? Another shining example of

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Jun 17, 2023, 08:30 AM

Jun 2023

Breathless, lazy-a$$ so-called journalism by people who don’t bother to do their research before rushing their articles to print. The reporter or or the editor should have caught that mistake before it went to print or was uploaded to the Net.

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