The curse of cut and paste

That quote below about Nelson's Trafalgar signal - I was originally going to put up an image with that quote.

I found five such images apparently made by five different people. Unfortunately every one had a typo.

The same typo. 

Not a spelling mistake as such - a missing space between the same two words. There is no way five different people writing the quote out would make exactly that mistake and only that mistake. I can only assume that they all cut and pasted it from the same source and all missed the typo.

Says something about how much we grab and re-use ideas - and how careless we sometimes are to check that we have done so correctly.

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