Thought These Were Funny

[Annie]

http://llamabutchers.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_llamabutchers_archive.html#109156665946596805

Well, I am taking down the Board O'Clutter this afternoon. One of the gems that has been in place ever since I started working years ago is a collection of some of those snarky little commentaries the New Yorker does on other publications' bloopers, or at least used to do. (I don't know if they do now because I dropped my subscription years ago.) The current crop are all, I believe, from the pre-Tina Brown Era:


Corrections & Clarifications

Dear Abby's column yesterday incorrectly stated that a man's hiccups were temporarily cured through the use of carbon monoxide. The treatment involved carbon dioxide. - Denver (Colo.) Rocky Mountain News.

(Too late.)

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David Shapiro, a Torontonian who is president of O & Y Southeast, is a staunch believer in air in the environment. - Real Estate Weekly

(A man among men.)

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BACK TO BASISC FOR CIRRICULUM - Boulder (Colo.) Colorado Daily

(Good idea.)

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SOLUTION TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE
Answer: Shelley's Paradise Lost.
No winner. - Woodstock (N.Y.) Times.

(How come?)


Thought you might enjoy them.


posted by Robert