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January 13th, 2006 at 5:39 am
And here I thought you’d photoshopped it as part of a smear campaign to keep Alito off the bench.
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January 13th, 2006 at 7:04 am
[…] Here’s a laugh-out-loud newspaper error. Just read it. Read the whole thing. […]
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January 13th, 2006 at 7:11 am
Thanks for sharing. I am laughing so hard that I may have to change my clothes! Sometimes, when people goof, they don’t believe in half-measures.
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January 13th, 2006 at 9:11 am
Newspaper error, yes.
Somehow I suspect the person responsible did it on purpose and managed to slip it past the editors. Dissent can take on many sneaky forms.
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January 13th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Worst? I say best!
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January 13th, 2006 at 9:37 am
That clip made my Friday!
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January 13th, 2006 at 10:10 am
ROTFL!
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January 13th, 2006 at 10:49 am
How cool would it be if it wasn’t a typo? If it was, in fact, true? As long as we’re living in bizarro world, why not go all the way?
The flow of it is just great.
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January 13th, 2006 at 11:13 am
Just another news day at the AP.
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January 13th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Those damn anti-Catholic activist judges! (sarcasm)
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January 13th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Amazing, and too funny! thanks!
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January 13th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
What newspaper did this appear in?
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January 13th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Apologies. Now I see it. Purdue student newspaper, The Exponent.
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January 13th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Two wire stories got merged, either an new one covering previously used space, or two new ones together. Notice that there’s no space btwn the period of the right sentence and the beginning of the wrong sentence.
It happens, and if copy editors miss it, page editors should catch them. It probably happened near deadline. That’s when our daily used to add its wire stories to fill space.
Ouch. Ouch plus, with the retraction.
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January 13th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
The article was printed side by side with the article on the building of the Popemobile.
You can see the front page here.
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January 13th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Reposted by me from Pandagon:
Have fun….add your own.
Q. “Judge Alito, did you shoot the pope?”
A1: I can’t remember.
This comment was written by Magis.A2: Yes, but the computer made me do it.
A3: No, but I did have him strip-searched.
A4: The Pope can read anybody’s mail he wants, it’s the doctrine of Unitary Papacy…what was the question again?
A5: I won’t answer directly but I will say I tried myself and found myself innocent and I really don’t think I should have recused myself.
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January 14th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Hahahaha Be sure to readthe whole thing :)
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January 14th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Scalito shot the pope
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January 14th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Humor… Thisnewspaper error made me laugh so much that the kids demanded an explanation, which I was unable to give them. Shakespeare’s Sister links to the best blonde joke ever! Gawd, some people just can’t follow the simplest of requests.
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January 14th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Not a spoof!
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January 14th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
My, did this crack me up. Fuller documentation on educe me. Curtsy: Pandagon. Continue reading at Alas, a blog … posted6:58 am at Alas, a blog
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January 14th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Not a spoof! At least this sorry episode produces one smile.
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January 15th, 2006 at 2:36 am
Worstnewspaper error ever.
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January 15th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Worst newspaper error I’ve ever seen
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January 15th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Alas, a Blog by Miz Geek, who is helping me to avoid Losing It today while I edit a not-so-great fantasy novel. Here’s the entire front page (of the newspaper, not the novel): [pdf]
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January 17th, 2006 at 12:25 am
As the blogger says, it’s theWorst Newspaper Error Ever. Geesh.
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January 17th, 2006 at 4:01 am
Check out the last sentence in the article below produced by some aspiring MSM newsies at Purdue (courtesy educe me): [IMG ] I wonder why Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden didn’t think to raise THAT issue in the judiciary hearings! (Hat-tipAlas, a blog)
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January 17th, 2006 at 4:13 am
I admit that I don’t like Alito, and I don’t want him sitting on the Supreme Court. All that was beforethis, though. I don’t see how anyone can support him now. (Go read the link. Trust me on this one. You’ll appreciate it.)
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January 17th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
He must have side-stepped all the questions. (link via Gone Mild)
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January 18th, 2006 at 10:30 am
[IMG] A very phallic guitar (NSFW).Samuel Alito shot the Pope? Blog devoted to ’50s animation. Good interview with Judd Apatow. Sears Tower built with Jenga. [IMG] The New York Post thinks this site is hot. Panopticist is a featured site in Gawker’s Guide to the Web
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January 20th, 2006 at 4:56 am
We have a few Democrats running for governor, one likely Republican, an Independance Party candidate… and then this guy. Funny that I was listening to Orbital’s “Satan” when I came across a link to his website. Issue II: Thefunniest screw up I have ever seen (read the caption all the way to the end. I promise it is worth it).
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January 20th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Nice story about what happens when someone gets careless with cut and paste while editing a student newspaper. Hat tip toAlas, a Blog, by way of Body and Soul.
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April 16th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
[…] Friday, January 13, 2006 Linkydinks.*Pinky found this link, which I pass on to my teenaged blog readers: Take heart. I know right know you probably think your parents suck. But next time you think yours are the dumbest assholes on the planet, think again.Cute baby, though. Is it a boy, or a girl? So hard to tell. I wish they’d give me some clues, somehow.*I know Lazy Sunday has been floating around for a long time, but I can’t stop singing it. I’m linking it mostly for my friend Elle, but also because it still makes me laugh.*Matthew Baldwin over at Defective Yeti warned me that My Humps was not only the worst song ever recorded, but might also be as close to unfiltered evil as we are likely to see in this world. His commenters also warned that, once listened to, the song worms its way into your brain and squirts uncontrollably out your mouth at various points in the day, like when you’re walking behind a woman at the grocery store and burst out with WHATCHA GON’ DO WITH ALL THEM BREASTS UP IN YOUR SHIRT?! which of course leaves you no choice but to run away before you are struck down by an angry mob. Who, of course, will begin singing MY HUMPS, MY HUMPS, MY HUMP MY HUMP MY HUMPS over your dead, trampled body.After I played the video for Steve and he sat on the couch staring at the monitor in horror, Christopher walked around the house singing, SPENDING ALL YOUR MONEY ON ME AND ALL YOUR TIME ON ME and Alex, of course, sang I’M A GIT GIT GIT GIT YOU DRUNK, GIT YOU LOVE DRUNK ON MY HUMPS.But that’s us, always succumbing to viruses together.*When I was working at the Renaissance Faire up in Bristol, one of the other actresses and I did a bit on the fairegrounds where we would sling blonde jokes at each other, reworked into Renaissance English:”Wherefore doth the flaxen-haired maiden clad herself in bloomers?”"To keep her ankles warm!”Oh, the hilarity! We definitely could have used this one from Shakespeare’s Sister. It’s the best one yet.*This next link is from Alas, A Blog. Barry thinks this is the Worst Newspaper Error Ever, but I disagree. I think it’s the best.*A study on the effectiveness of tin foil hats.*Warning Label Generator.*Time to update links on the blogroll again, dammit. I’ve been meaning to add my friends Emily and Brooke’s blog Name That Mama and kept putting it off, but now that their first baby is almost here, and they’ve been nominated for a Best of Blogs award in the LBGT category, well, the time is clearly now. […]
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