Friday 17 December 2010

'Metro' Staff Christmas Party Must Have Been A Good One...

...because the very next morning:



Needs an 'are', I think...

Still, at least they got 'planet' right, which was more than they could manage a few pages further on:



Bet the headache was worth it though.

6 comments:

  1. Unrelated, but I thought you'd enjoy a lying about rape post from the USA:
    http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/manhattan/meteorologist-heidi-jones-charged-with-filing-false-rape-report-ncx-20101215

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  2. I bet the majority of it's readers will be equally hungover and won't notice the difference.

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  3. Every time I see things like this, I'm taken back to a time when newspapers were produced the old fashioned way with Linotype machines. No computer spel chekers, just a bunch of guys hammering away at keys. If there were any misteaks in the original copy, they would correct them. I no this is true because I found an old copy of our local paper in the roof recently, and reading through it was both a revelation, and brought back memories.

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  4. were produced the old fashioned way with Linotype machines....
    Hence the saying 'mind your Ps and Qs'. Confusing when they are backward

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  5. "Unrelated, but I thought you'd enjoy a lying about rape post from the USA..."

    Oh, I missed that one! Cheers.

    "I bet the majority of it's readers will be equally hungover and won't notice the difference."

    Heh! True :)

    "Every time I see things like this, I'm taken back to a time when newspapers were produced the old fashioned way with Linotype machines. "

    Indeed. And no doubt people were better educated then, too. We've become lazy, relying too much on machines.

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