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September 17, 2018
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“The world’s most prolific Facebook user sadly passed away. We shall not see his Like again”

Facebook is an online social media website that allows users to "like" posts. A joke was posted on Twitter by Chris on April 23, 2011: "The world's most prolific Facebook user…

June 4, 2018
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“The worst thing about censorship is—”

"The worst thing about censorship is -- " -- the last part is blacked out -- is a saying that has been printed on many images. The censorship saying has been cited in print since at least…

March 28, 2026
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“The X is silent. It’s still pronounced Twitter”

The name of "Twitter" (an American microblogging and social networking service) was changed to "X" in 2023, but many people still call it Twitter. "xtwitter (the x is…

January 24, 2011
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“There are no dull stories, only dull reporters”

"There are no dull stories, only dull reporters/writers/authors" is often said about newspaper writing and other writing. Longtime New York City newspaper columist Franklin Pierce Adams…

July 28, 2012
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“There are no new stories, only new reporters” (journalism adage)

"There is nothing new under the sun" is from Ecclesiastes 1:9 of the Bible. By at least 1900, it was said that "there are no new stories under the sun." Each story is similar to…

February 11, 2017
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“There are so many scams on the Internet. Send me $19.95 and I will tell you how to avoid them”

"There are so many scams on the Internet now-a-days. Send me $19.95 and I will tell you how to avoid them" is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. "There’s no…

May 5, 2012
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“There are two sides to every story—and then there’s the truth”

"There are two sides to every story" is a very old proverb; the Greek writer Aesop (620-564 BCE) in the fable "The Mule" wrote that "every truth has two sides." For an…

March 5, 2025
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“There are two typos of people in the world. Those who always notice spelling mistakes, and those who don’t”

"There are two typos of people" is a joke on "there are two types of people" that has been printed on many images. "There are two typos of people in this world--those who…

March 5, 2025
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“There are two typos of people in the world. Those who always notice spelling mistakes, and those who donut”

"There are two typos of people" is a joke on "there are two types of people" that has been printed on many images. "There are two typos of people in this world--those who…

March 5, 2025
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“There are two typos of people in the world. Those who proofread and those who don’t”

"There are two typos of people" is a joke on "there are two types of people" that has been printed on many images. "There are two typos of people in this world--those who…

March 5, 2025
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“There are two typos of people in this world: those who can edit and those who can’t”

"There are two typos of people" is a joke on "there are two types of people" that has been printed on many images. "There are two typos of people in this world--those who…

December 14, 2016
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“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works”

American computer scientist and Yale University professor Alan Perlis (1922-1990) wrote "Epigrams on Programming" for ACM's SIGNPLAN (September 1982). One popular epigram is:…

December 22, 2012
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“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil”

Newspaper columnist and author Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) wrote in Liberty and the News (1920): "There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil." The…

April 17, 2020
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“There is a guy stealing iPhones around the town. He is probably going to face time”

FaceTime (a proprietary videotelephony product developed by Apple Inc.) shouldn't be confused with "face time" (jokes), but there are jokes. "There are two guys stealing iPhones…

August 31, 2018
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“There is magic in the air and it’s called WiFi”

"There is magic in the air and it's called (free) WiFi" is a saying that has been printed on many images. "There's magic in the air and it's called Wifi" was…

August 10, 2016
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“There is no truth in news and no news in truth” (Russian Izvestia and Pravda adage)

The Soviet Union had two important propaganda newspapers. Pravda ("truth") was the communist party newspaper and was published between 1912 and 1991. Izvestia ("news") was the…

March 26, 2025
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“There should be a super morose font called tragic sans just to balance things out”

Comic Sans is a sans-serif typeface. The "comic" name seemingly implies other names. "RT @XaiaX: The name “Comic Sans” implies there’s a serif version was posted on X/Twitter…

June 11, 2019
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“There’s a tweet for everything”

Twitter is a popular messaging service, and it's proverbial that "there's a tweet for everything." "I have a tweet for everything!" was posted on Twitter by…

July 13, 2017
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“There’s an app on my phone that makes me look fat. It’s called ‘camera’”

"There's an app on my phone that makes me look fat. It's called 'camera'" is a jocular saying that has been printed on several images. "OMG! I just found an…

February 23, 2018
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“There’s life outside the internet.”/“Send me the link.”

"There's life without Facebook and Internet? Really? Send me the link" is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. A conversation with a friend was posted on Twitter on…

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