Many analysts doubt whether either of these three would bid alone, but possible combinations of them could trump Kraft's current cash and shares bid of 9.9 billion pounds ($16.4 billion) or push the American food giant Kraft to raise its offer.

In my Canadian Oxford Dictionary the definition for "either" is "one or the other of two".

Should I return my dictionary?

R.O.H.

No, your dictionary is fine. We fixed that error in a subsequent update of the story: GBU Editor

A Ferrero Rocher chocolate is seen in Milan, November 20, 2009. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

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You couldn't be more wrong. As an art form, classic ballet makes rap look like gospel singing. At least this ballerina is smoking backstage. Until fairly recently, dancers smoked and took swigs from vodka bottles while dancing onstage.

Are you sure about this, Blog Guy?

Oh, grow up. Have you seen "The Sleeping Beauty," one of the most popular ballets? The subtext here is that the princess is too hammered to stand up.

No!

And THE most endearing ballet, "The Nutcracker." Oh please, giant dancing mice battle a walnut-cracking soldier? That's an absinthe and acid flashback if ever there was one!

Wait a second, Blog Guy. Surely my very favorite, "Swan Lake," is a wholesome tale?

Oh, you mean "Those Swans are So Beautiful, Hand me my Crossbow?"

Blog Guy, do you really know anything about the ballet?

About as much as any other subject. Why do you ask?

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Above: A Croatian ballet dancer smokes in a theater cafe during a break in rehearsals for a new ballet show, in Zagreb, November 26, 2009. REUTERS/Nikola Solic

Right: A general view during the dress rehearsal for The Nutcracker ballet at the Sadlers Wells Theatre in London, in a 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

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You couldn't be more wrong. As an art form, classic ballet makes rap look like gospel singing. At least this ballerina is smoking backstage. Until fairly recently, dancers smoked and took swigs from vodka bottles while dancing onstage.

Are you sure about this, Blog Guy?

Oh, grow up. Have you seen "The Sleeping Beauty," one of the most popular ballets? The subtext here is that the princess is too hammered to stand up.

No!

And THE most endearing ballet, "The Nutcracker." Oh please, giant dancing mice battle a walnut-cracking soldier? That's an absinthe and acid flashback if ever there was one!

Wait a second, Blog Guy. Surely my very favorite, "Swan Lake," is a wholesome tale?

Oh, you mean "Those Swans are So Beautiful, Hand me my Crossbow?"

Blog Guy, do you really know anything about the ballet?

About as much as any other subject. Why do you ask?

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Above: A Croatian ballet dancer smokes in a theater cafe during a break in rehearsals for a new ballet show, in Zagreb, November 26, 2009. REUTERS/Nikola Solic

Right: A general view during the dress rehearsal for The Nutcracker ballet at the Sadlers Wells Theatre in London, in a 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh

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That is one expensive shelf! Have your copy editor read about dangling modifiers.

I suggest "Darwin book worth up to $100,000 found on shelf." Unless, of course, you did mean that the shelf was worth so much money.

C.W.

A number of readers were amused by this one. We later improved it: GBU Editor

A detail of British artist John Collier's 1883 painting of Charles Darwin. REUTERS/Tal Cohen

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Blog Guy, I'm sick and tired of the violence all around me, and I want to do something to protest it. What's a good idea?

Well, you could get a tattoo, like these people in Cuba protesting violence.

No, see, you don't understand. Why would I go through something involving pain if I want to protest violence?

Ah, I see your point. Then maybe you should get a body piercing, instead, like some of these other protesters. Maybe your navel, or nose, or tongue, or...

No! That's even worse! I'm anti-violence. I want something peaceful....

Right, now I get it. How about cutting off your leg with a hacksaw?

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A woman reacts as she has an object pierced and placed in her navel during the No Violence festival in Havana November 21, 2009. Brother Saiz, an association of young Cuban artists, organized the festival and used tattoos and body piercing to draw people's attention to gender violence issues.

An artist tattoos on a man's back during the No Violence festival in Havana November 21, 2009.

A man has an image of the late rebel hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara tattooed on his body during the No Violence festival in Havana November 21, 2009.

REUTERS/Stringer photos

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People say to me, "Bob, what are YOU thankful for on this Thanksgiving?" and I tell them plenty of stuff, because I am truly blessed.

I'm thankful for family, friends, home and health, and a chance to entertain people with this blog, which I may actually start doing any day now.

I'm also thankful that as of 2:30 p.m. today I haven't caught even the briefest glimpse of the Macy's Parade, and that I live in a country where nobody can force me to listen to ukulele music.

But I guess most of all, I'm thankful that I'm not either of these guys in these pictures... Life is great!

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Left: Detroit Lions fan wears a turkey hat on his head before the start of the Thanksgiving Day NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in Detroit, Michigan November 26, 2009.

Right: Green Bay Packers fan wears a cheese head hat with a fake turkey on top before the start of the game.

REUTERS photos by Rebecca Cook

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Yes, and we have a photo from the unspeakably tragic scene. Some sensitive readers may wish to stop reading at this point.

Is it really true that the guy...

Yes, he was sucked into a huge cotton candy machine at a carnival, and there was no way to turn it off in time.

This once again focuses on the hideous danger of cotton candy machines, which kill about 40,000 people a year world-wide and pull off countless arms and legs, spinning and flossing them into a macabre "treat."

I had no idea...

Why do you think most cotton candy is the color it is? It doesn't start out that way, if you catch my drift. It's from the body parts that are in the mix.

Where do you think the phrase "pinky" comes from, and the expression "in the pink."

Blog Guy, I think this is more of your made-up horse poop.

You may be right. My fact-checker isn't working today, and I'm off to have some turkey.

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Manuel Bandera performs during a rehearsal of the musical "Chicago" in Madrid November 19, 2009. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

A child eats cotton candy during a temple fair in Beijing January 19, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Lee

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Summit has yet to green-light production on "Breaking Down," an adaptation of the fourth book in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series.

Just wanted to let you know that your article "FX nabs rights to air "Twilight" saga", has a typo.

The fourth book is called "Breaking Dawn" not "Breaking Down".

Learn to do your research better and learn to read, jeez.

Duke

Lots of readers noticed this mistake in a Hollywood Reporter story which moved in our entertainment feed. We corrected: GBU Editor

Actor Robert Pattinson, star of the new film "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" poses at the film's Los Angeles premiere, November 16, 2009. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

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They won a contest that included aspiring actors, students and even a businessman hoping to seed his enterprise for the jobs to greet and chat with tourists and hoards of holiday shoppers visiting the Manhattan restrooms.

In this article the author uses the word "hoards" when he should have used the word "hordes".

I quit reading CNN.com because of the large number of spelling and grammar errors. And now I'm starting to notice a few errors on Reuters as well. If these errors aren't being caught, then it really makes me wonder about your fact checking as well.

Cheez

We did indeed use the wrong word: GBU Editor

A toilet is displayed at a promotional event for Charmin Restrooms in New York's Times Square, November 23, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

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It's that time of year again, when college seniors start asking me for career advice.

"Bob," writes one student at a northeastern college, "I picked up a glossy pamphlet on the exciting field of professional frisking.

"I'm good with my hands, so I thought this might be an option for me."

Well, I get this question a lot, and of course there is much to be said for this glamorous career. You do get to grope interesting people, and use phrases like "Spread 'em," "You know the drill," and "Up against the wall, pond-scum!"

Best of all it's mostly night work, which leaves your days free to do whatever it is you thought you were going to do with that Art History degree.

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Top: A suspect is frisked by a policeman patrolling the slum district of Petare in Caracas, November 21, 2009.

Left: A 15-year-old girl is searched for weapons by a policewoman during a raid near a hospital at the slums of Petare in Caracas, November 22, 2009.

REUTERS photos by Carlos Garcia Rawlins

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