Please tell me this is a error in writing.

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/31/2006 02:09 PM, you wrote:
>On May 31, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Brenda Lester wrote:
>
>>I got 437 GOOGLE hits for "penicure," George.
>>
>>
>>George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:
>>   I saw a sign yesterday in front of a nail salon on Bleecker street
>>offering "manicures and penicures".
>
>i got ca. 53 raw webhits, which reduced to 18 when dupes were
>removed.  most of them seem to involve penises in some way or
>another, but there are a few that look like substitutes for
>"pedicure", especially in juxtaposition to "manicure", but a few
>times on its own, as in this from a Mary Kay Cosmetics site:
>
>Win this Penicure Set ($38) by just visiting my website and sending
>me an email. Drawings will be on end of each month.

Drawings will be on end of what??

Joel

>Offer expires
>June 30, 2006. ...
>sandiego.fox6.com/coupons/classifieds/ ViewCoupon?oid=oid%
>3A735265&name=health%20%26%20beauty
>
>arnold
>
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