July 08, 2004

11 dead as bush crashes in afghanistan(NYT) no kidding. this is the current headline on the new york times. i suppose it may be corrected soon, but what an apt typo, except for the numbers.
posted by dxlifer 20 years ago
  • Too bad you don't use capital letters. It's even weirder if you read "11 Dead After Bush Crashes in Afghanistan". Headlines are made by assistant-assistant-editors, and this one is probably an ex-assistant-assistant-editor soon. This reminds me when I made the front page of our student paper (quite a feat for a 12 year old in a school that taught students age 12 to 18) and misspelled the name of the school. Of course nobody noticed it before it came back from the printer. The horror, the horror. I wasn't kicked out the student paper team but it was close.
  • I spent a good two minutes thinking about how the sentence would make sense as I was bugmenotting the login. "Bush Airlines, maybe?" "Is the band so popular that fans battle with security even when they're just staying the night in some country?" I was kind of dissapointed to find it was a headline typo. Heh.
  • thanks for the caps, mare. i have such trouble with that shift key when typing with one finger. yes, Bush Crashes is what the sidebar said on the nyt.
  • Confession: upon seeing that line, I felt a tiny little glimmer of hope. How completely wretched a person does that make me?
  • oh, i see they have fixed it up. too bad. baby, you are a wonderful monkey and please don't feel that way. i was wildly optimistic myself.
  • Still up on the west coast. The revenge of copy-paste.
  • How completely wretched a person does that make me? President Richard Cheney. It does have a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
  • I couldn't be bothered following the link and bugmenotting, but I get it now after running the mouse over the link. This will probably get a lot more attention now than it would have otherwise. And between this screwup and the Gephardt article a few days ago, the media's going to be laughed at for a while, methinks.
  • In my disgusting little fantasy world, goetter, Cheney and the next nine runners-up would fill the rest of the plane. God knows who we'd have in charge then, though.
  • God knows who we'd have in charge then, though. How about the constitution?
  • God knows who we'd have in charge then, though. It turns out that America would then have its first woman President: Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao. Anyway, don't worry about it. Unlike John Edwards, Elaine Chao can be President!
  • Lacking a Schwarzenegger gambit, Chao can't be president, since she was born in Taiwan. Next up is Tommy Thompson, Sec'y of Health and Human Services and former governor of Wisconsin.
  • President Tommy Thompson just sounds silly.