GREAT MOMENTS IN BAD NEWSPAPER TYPESETTING
(from an English newspaper in the late 1800s, when two stories
– one on a patent pig-killing and sausage making machine and the other on the Rev.
Dr. Mudge being presented with a gold-headed cane – were mistakenly pieced together
by typographers.)
Several of the Rev. Dr. Mudge's friends called upon him
yesterday, and after a conversation the unsuspecting pig was seized by the hind leg, and
slid along a beam until he reached the hot-water tank.....Thereupon he came forward and
said that there were times when the feelings overpowered one, and for that reason he would
not attempt to do more than thank those around him for the manner in which such a huge
animal was cut into fragments was simply astonishing.
The doctor concluded his remarks, when the machine seized
him and in less time than it takes to write it the pig was cut into fragments and worked
up into delicious sausage. The occasion will be long remembered by the doctor's friends as
one of the most delightful of their lives. The best pieces can be procured for tenpence a
pound, and we are sure that those who have sat so long under his ministry will rejoice
that he has been treated so handsomely.
YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMEHOW FITTING
Body of missing retired Sara Lee exec found frozen
-- headline, Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (thanks to the Wolke family)
OUR FAVORITE CONFUSING NEWSPAPER CORRECTION
My name was printed incorrectly below my letter in the December
30 issue of the Sevenoaks Chronicle. It should read L P Pook, not L P Hook. (signed) L P
Hook
– correction printed in the Sevenoaks Chronicle
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GRIPPING HEADLINES, No Comment Department
Mom Blows Lucy's Date
– headline on the "Dear Abby" column in the Parkersburg (WV) Sentinel
Ride a Giant Weiner to The Land of Smiles
-- headline, Charlotte News – about riding around town in the Oscar
Meyer Weiner Mobile
Boner rises, shines after inauguration gala
– headline, The Nashville (Tenn.) Banner
Student Excited Dad Got Head Job
-- headline, The University Daily Kansan
Canadians get helping hand during sperm crisis
– headline, the Sunday Herald (UK)
WELL, WE'RE STILL TERRIBLY DISTRESSED . . .
Thanks to everyone who pointed out to us that the moorhen we
featured in last Thursday's Citizen was in fact a coot!
We also have to apologize for the picture of a buffalo on
January 3 which was in fact a bison and on December 12 the picture of a weasel which was
of course a stoat!
Also in February we said a model aircraft we photographed at
a model show was a Republic RF-84 of the French Air Force when it was an F-84R of the
Italian Air Force.
We apologize for any distress we have caused.
correction note, The Citizen (UK)
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