The Charlie formerly known as Charlie from California, now Charlie from Wisconsin (oh, it gets much, much worse) forwards by snail mail, I'm not kidding, a clipping from a Wisconsin newspaper wherein is found an Associated Press story containing this notably knotty URL...
"http://www.datcp.state.wi.us/arm/agriculture/pestfert/pesticides/clean-sweep/pdf/2009/Fall2009ScheduleDrugs.pdf"
...which, he explains, he would have emailed but he can't type it without making an error which, it turns out, is because the error has been unhelpfully pre-made by the AP itself in the form of a missing hyphen. See if you can find it, boys and girls. The correct URL for a schedule of places to dispose of unwanted prescription drugs is...
...and let's observe a moment of silence for all the copy editors who have to deal with this kind of thing.
(And this, more than anything else - namely, the unclickability of the thing - may turn out to be the reason newspapers are in so much trouble these days. Who knows.)
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