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Later, the NBCphiladelphia.com beta site referred to Balthazar Getty as a “total Baldwin”

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An error message I received last night:

I don't understand.

We can all agree that the actual, tangible apartment that appears on Friends does not exist because it is a set. I'm guessing what NBCphiladelphia.com means is that a New York apartment like the one Monica and Rachel live in does not exist in real life, because it's far too spacious and well-appointed. But if that is what they mean, why would they use the word "seem"? Its inclusion flirts with the possibility that such apartments — and maybe even that file I was looking for — do exist, just not readily. And that would be true. There are plenty of apartments like that around, but they're very expensive.

It's a lot to think about. So I've drafted an alternate error message for NBCphiladelphia.com that takes all these points into consideration:

 

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One Response to “Later, the NBCphiladelphia.com beta site referred to Balthazar Getty as a “total Baldwin””

Since we’re all being douchebags tonight and overly scrutinizing what should be recognized as a lame attempt at humor, I feel it’s my duty to point out that you should have used a semi-colon in your second bulleted point instead of a comma.


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