Funny/Interesting: November 2004 Archives
A message from Pat Robertson and the “Vote No On Jesus” campaign.
For all of you uptight people out there, take notice this is filed under “Funny”.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: In our original post we neglected to mention that this post came via AMAZO. We make it a point to attribute our reblogs and regret the error.]
One site has recently crept into my daily blog reading, Regret the Error. It’s basically a collection corrections run by newspapers, usually funny or interesting ones. Often they are corrections on corrections. This post is basically stolen from Regret.
A correction run by the Economist in May, 2001. They get away with using the word cock, as only the British can.
In our last issue…we may have given the impression that the conduct of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the prosecution of Timothy McVeigh had been exemplary; that the trial of the Oklahoma City bomber had followed the legal textbook to the letter (“none of the usual tales about drunk lawyers and uncalled witnesses”); and that, “barring a miracle”, he would be executed on May 16th. However, the FBI having suddenly discovered 3,000-odd pages of evidence that Mr McVeigh’s lawyers should have received before his trial, and his execution having thus been postponed to June 11th (at least), we now accept unreservedly that we should have always known the Bureau was bound to cock it up in the end.
For your lexicographic edification, I present a word:
tercel (TUR-sel)
The male of a hawk, especially of the peregrine falcon or a goshawk.
McSweeny’s has a summary of General Broadcasting Standards Concerning Upper-torso Nudity that every contentious TV viewer needs to look over. I promise you won’t regret it.
(Sorry Julie.)
