AWESOME!

From the article "Jacks to remember an old friend" by Ray Hamill, 11/3/2007
link to article

“We’re going to do a special thing for Kenny,” HSU head coach Doug Adkins said. “And we’re going to present his family with a plague.”

It's a sad story, but it's even sadder that the Eureka Reporter, a completely subsidized paper, won't use a little of that money to hire a full-time proofreader. (Not me... I'll never work for a daily again.)

a submission from Holly

"Barmaid! A pint of ale! Just like they drank back in Ranaissance times!" yells Holly from across the dusty crowd of hot, thirsty role players. (She also reported that the other beer banners were spelled correctly.)

Photographed October 7, 2007, at Shasta Dragonwood Renaissance Festival, Anderson, Calif.

a submission from Mike

There's a town near ours named "Fortuna." This is a most unfortunate error. It's not as bad as running a newspaper headline about a Public Hearing and leaving the 'L' out, but it's an expensive mistake and someone is going to have to pay for it. I'm glad we got a picture of it before a new, corrected sign went up. Thanks, Mike!

Ugh. Local TV.

We live in a college town. It's a little school, with a little football team that has been terrible for a long time. They've begun running commercials on TV to drum up interest in their games. I do not believe it was the college that produced the commercials. Here's why:

1) We live in Humboldt County. The school is Humboldt State University. It was displayed as Humbodlt State during the commercial.

2) The graphics displayed during the commercial had Humboldt State playing Western Oregon. The voice-over said HSU was playing Western Washington.

Double ugh.

I now have a favorite holiday.

Screw Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, Valentine's Day and any other holiday created or made into a food- and/or consumer-fest by giant corporations. I'm just bummed that I found out about this two days after it happened. I'll just be extra prepared for next year.

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

Found by Zeke.

This is from our local craigslist. I don't even want to count the errors; I'm so horrified. I'll give a cookie to anyone brave enough to count and document them all.



Perfessional Digital Camera Equipment, - $3700
Date: 2007-08-17, 3:21PM PDT

looking for someone who's in need of great Digital Camera gear. I have a Canon 5D 12mega pixels body. I bought the camera one year ago. Used it for documenting Sri Lanka, Takes amazing photos. comes with grip, extra battery's,& charger, It includs a Canon 70-200 2.8 ultrasonic lens, A Sigma 50mm 2.8 micro lens, A Canon 550 Flash,A Canon speedlite transmitter for making the 550 flash wireless.. Also for sale is a Canon Eos 1D 400.00 dollars, This camera body is in great shape. I used this camera to document Katrina in New Orleans it takes amazing photographs. for the complete package 4,100.00. I won't split the package up.. Want to sell altogether to the right person. If you have any questions please fill free to email me .. I could also send photos of the gear if needed.

from sfgate.com's Day In Pictures

Here's their caption:
"Cawshun! Slo down! Road-painting crews in Kalamazoo, Mich., do not come with spellcheck."