Passport to Prison
Remember when you were a kid and your teacher handed out those graded spelling tests who didn’t study for because you thought, “Hey I’m going to be a rock star/center fielder. I’m not going to need to know how to spell.” Think again…
NICOSIA (Reuters) - You might have the best forgery skills in the world, but it is not much use if you cannot spell.
A Cyprus court jailed Pakistani national Fazal Ur Rehman for eight months for forgery after police spotted spelling mistakes on stamps on an Afghan passport he was carrying — otherwise it was a near-perfect copy, the Cyprus Mail said Wednesday.
I know what you’re thinking. “Hey, those foreign countries especially in the Middle East and Indian regions can get pretty tricky. There’s more consonants in the name of those countries than a bag of Scrabble tiles. Trying to spell one of those things can make an 8-year-old Chinese spelling bee champion faint on site. What could he possibly have screwed up?”
He messed up words like “ministry” spelling it as “menistry,” which as we all know is the name that Cher has for the dark liar of her house where she rebuilds old men into teenage boyfriends.
He also left the “n” out of “government.” Don’t fret, W. did the same thing for his first three years in office.
