Comments on: Worst. Newspaper error. Ever.

By: One Good Thing

One Good Thing — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:56:16 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Magis

Magis — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:00:25 +0000

Reposted by me from Pandagon:

Have fun….add your own.

Q. “Judge Alito, did you shoot the pope?”

A1: I can’t remember.
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.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 02:46:31 +0000

The article was printed side by side with the article on the building of the Popemobile.

You can see the front page here.

By: Radfem

Radfem — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:44:33 +0000

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.

By: Joel Garreau

Joel Garreau — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:22:56 +0000

Apologies. Now I see it. Purdue student newspaper, The Exponent.

By: Joel Garreau

Joel Garreau — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:59:57 +0000

What newspaper did this appear in?

By: Kim Pearson

Kim Pearson — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:43:14 +0000

Amazing, and too funny! thanks!

By: Deadly Ernest

Deadly Ernest — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:34:51 +0000

Those damn anti-Catholic activist judges! (sarcasm)

By: Contontos

Contontos — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:13:13 +0000

Just another news day at the AP.

By: Jake Squid

Jake Squid — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:49:15 +0000

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.

By: gengwall

gengwall — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:10:08 +0000

ROTFL!

By: Gloria

Gloria — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:37:17 +0000

That clip made my Friday!

By: zuzu

zuzu — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:12:26 +0000

Worst? I say best!

By: Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:11:58 +0000

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.

By: Patsy Nevins

Patsy Nevins — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:11:40 +0000

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.

By: Word Munger » Who knew Alito had such feelings for the pope?

Word Munger » Who knew Alito had such feelings for the pope? — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:04:14 +0000

[...] Here’s a laugh-out-loud newspaper error. Just read it. Read the whole thing. [...]

By: furrycatherder

furrycatherder — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:39:39 +0000

And here I thought you’d photoshopped it as part of a smear campaign to keep Alito off the bench.

By: The Blue Parrot

The Blue Parrot — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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.

By: ...::crows nest::...

...::crows nest::... — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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).

By: panopticist: Cultural Surveillance

panopticist: Cultural Surveillance — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

[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