pepsi offers "more happy"

[Bill Le May]

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> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 3:15 PM
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> Subject: pepsi offers "more happy"

> Still unexplained is the motivation behind the orthography of
> the recent Will Smith movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness"

I found this on the Internet Movie Database, in the Memorable Quotes section
for the movie.   This is an exchange between Will Smith's character
Christopher Gardner and his son Christopher:

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Christopher Gardner: [about the spelling mistakes in the graffiti of a
building] It's not "H-A-P-P-Y-N-E-S-S" Happiness is spelled with an "I"
instead of a "Y"

Christopher: Oh, okay. Is "Fuck" spelled right?

Christopher Gardner: Um, yes. "Fuck" is spelled right but you shouldn't use
that word.

Christopher: Why? What's it mean?

Christopher Gardner: It's, um, an adult word used to express anger and, uh,
other things. But it's an adult word. It's spelled right, but don't use it.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/quotes

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