Deliciously Off-Beat Meedia Missteaks Mishaps & Messupos (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Not everybody's mistakes are as conspicuous as those made by people in the media. What a person says sometimes comes out in print with an altogether different connotation than what was originally intended. UNDERSTANDING MATH It appears there may be a serious problem understanding mathematics in South Carolina. According to one major newspaper: "A few years ago, half the people lived on farms, but today only 50 percent do." Greenville News SENSATIONAL SCIENTIFIC FINDING! None of the above should really make any difference since this Massachusetts newspaper reported: "Science is convinced there is no intelligent life in our solar system." Boston GlobeWOULD YOU CALL THIS GUY? This one speaks for itself! "Let the men who know roofing goof [roof] your house," screamed the classified advertisement in the Albuquerque, New Mexico newspaper. Mid-City NewsMARVELOUS WEATHER REPORT! This major wire service ran an informative story on the predictions of United States Government weather forecasters. Coming conditions were: "In a fairly narrow strip tending from the Southwest through Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, the map showed there is a 50-50 chance that fall temperatures will average above or below normal." Associated PressINGENIOUS CENSUS TAKING Another international wire service comes on the scene with this strange news blurb from Waco, Texas. It is in regard to census taking: "Almost 11,000,000 persons live in Texas, an increase of about 11,420,000 since August of 1940. United Press International This is what DELICIOUSLY OFF BEAT MEEDIA MISSTEAKS, MISHAPS & MESSIUPS is all about. It's a marvelous assortment of offbeat mishaps and colorful messups which were inadvertently made by the printed media. They're all either typographical errors, peculiar sentence construction, or a purely blameless statement made by the person quoted. Yet, each is unequivocally comical because of the unintended blunder.