Oh F*** - rather uncomfortable error

[Moderator1]

Check this one out. I'd love to be a fly on the wall down there today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/greenville-news-major-copy-edit-fail_n_1122972.html

 

[SF_Express]

Check this one out. I'd love to be a fly on the wall down there today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/greenville-news-major-copy-edit-fail_n_1122972.html

It's mentioned on a thread below, but I certainly think it "deserves" its own.

 

[Rockbottom]

Newberry nails it again!

rb

 

[Moderator1]

Agreed (sloughing off his own db!)

 

[1HPGrad]

Story history should be able to ID the culprit rather easily.
Charlotte's ski ad in the mid-90s still much, much better.

 

[hondo]

Isn't that word the one that popped into Mark Richt's head when he started watching LSU tape?

 

[Ace]

Story history should be able to ID the culprit rather easily.
Charlotte's ski ad in the mid-90s still much, much better.

This is why you don't let disgruntled co-workers know your password.

 

[hondo]

If you're a friend with Paul on Facebook, you gotta go to his page and see the comments -- including his. Priceless.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Story history should be able to ID the culprit rather easily.
Charlotte's ski ad in the mid-90s still much, much better.

I am unaware -- can someone post or at least describe the Charlotte ad?

It's times like these that I also regret not having a hard copy of that small paper that had the high school player who "sucks donkey dicks and doesn't even wipe the **** off." Or the other paper that said the girls soccer players were celebrating their conversion to lesbianism.

Ah, mistakes.

 

[bumpy mcgee]

So other than not capitalizing the F and leaving off the exclamation point/period, he's good, right?

 

[mpcincal]

Story history should be able to ID the culprit rather easily.
Charlotte's ski ad in the mid-90s still much, much better.

I am unaware -- can someone post or at least describe the Charlotte ad?

It's times like these that I also regret not having a hard copy of that small paper that had the high school player who "sucks donkey dicks and doesn't even wipe the **** off." Or the other paper that said the girls soccer players were celebrating their conversion to lesbianism.

Ah, mistakes.

Ah, yes, the notorious Bubba Dixon story. I was fortunate enough to get a copy of that story and still have it to show my co-workers so nobody tries to get cute.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Story history should be able to ID the culprit rather easily.
Charlotte's ski ad in the mid-90s still much, much better.

I am unaware -- can someone post or at least describe the Charlotte ad?

It's times like these that I also regret not having a hard copy of that small paper that had the high school player who "sucks donkey dicks and doesn't even wipe the **** off." Or the other paper that said the girls soccer players were celebrating their conversion to lesbianism.

Ah, mistakes.

I'm guessing 1HP was talking about this:

http://www.nworbcire.com/typoin.htm

Oh my God.

I think that's the worst one I've ever seen.

 

[cyclingwriter]

So Newberry buried his lede? Big deal.

 

[playthrough]

The magic of regional editing centers. Not that this couldn't have happened locally, but still...if the Greenville editor wanted to ***** out the person responsible for this, he had to do it by phone.

 

[Lieslntx]

I gotta be honest. I clicked on this thread because I thought our Moddy had made the uncomfortable error.

 

[SoCalDude]

Once a long time ago, my paper ran a camera-ready ad from a sporting goods company. One of the items was a sleeping bag. There was a cartoon-ish guy in the sleeping bag with a satisfied smile on his face. And halfway down the sleeping bag there was a bulge that was highlighted.

 

[Chad Conant]

Story history should be able to ID the culprit rather easily.
Charlotte's ski ad in the mid-90s still much, much better.

I am unaware -- can someone post or at least describe the Charlotte ad?

It's times like these that I also regret not having a hard copy of that small paper that had the high school player who "sucks donkey dicks and doesn't even wipe the **** off." Or the other paper that said the girls soccer players were celebrating their conversion to lesbianism.

Ah, mistakes.

Someone on our desk has the donkey dicks clip and the next day apology. She also has the famous Some ****er cutline.

 

[copperpot]

Ha. That was my old paper, the Danbury News-Times.

 

[JayFarrar]

What was the paper that had "I love big tits" in its sports agate one day?

 

[playthrough]

My buddies worked in the back production room at our college paper (back when you'd still use hot wax and x-acto knives) and the agate page was theirs to do. Every now and then one of their names would, um, sneak in. "Hey Brad, congrats on that 38th-place finish at the Greater Hartford Open."