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The arguments about type-in traffic, as anyone who is holding a significant portfolio of domains will tell you, is kind of specious -- unless you're talking about super-premium names (such as Screw.com in the example above) the amount of type-ins the average domain gets is negligible, and the state of the domain parking industry is a pretty clear indicator of the value of that type-in traffic (ie. "shit.")
Getting the .com for a name can be a good idea for a lot of reasons, especially when compared to other gTLDs, particularly .net (.org can be very useful for names that sound "organisational" however, and anecdotal evidence suggests that they do not suffer brand leach nearly as badly as .net, .info or other gTLDs.) But trying to base the decision purely on stuff like type-ins, or because you "just have to" get the .com, is setting yourself up for spending a potentially sizable amount of money that you don't have to.
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