apologies

The Compulsive Proofreader is on maternity leave.

This means my brain has checked out and I really only have enough energy to take care of a few things at a time. (Like doctor visits, nesting, napping, watching DVDs, tending the other blog occasionally and writing thank you notes.)

I'll be back eventually.

MEGA-post!

Sorry, the holidays kind of took over. You will be rewarded for your patience — there's good stuff below!


Wow. I knew St. Joseph Hospital was in financial trouble awhile back, but hosting a suicide class to drum up business is going just a little too far. (To be clear, maybe the Reporter should put the word "prevention" in the headline next time.)
Thanks, Holly!


Zeke found this one... The Y2K bug was real! Check out the date on this website!


Maybe I should start reading the newspaper and carrying by camera everywhere, this is another from Holly... Crab cooked on sight. Ugh. Which superhero had the laser beam eyes? He must be working on a crab boat out of Eureka.


It's another one from Holly. Maybe this blog should be called "Compulsive Proofreaders" :) Pets can bathe themselves on Sunday and Monday apparently. "Uh, Fluffy, it looks like you missed a spot behind your left ear there."


Who knew that Mini Coopers came with speedos?! (How many Americans have heard of a speedometer referred to as a speedo? Don't most Americans think of men's tiny swimsuits when they hear "speedo"? Eew!) I found this one.

Cheers until next time... hopefully, it won't take me a month to post again.

As seen from Hwy 101 in Laytonville, CA

Do yo think I'll need to rent a trck to get this stff home?

(There's another one in Laytonville that I decided to leave until our next trip up/down the Redwood Highway... 10 Proofreader Points to anyone who sends in a photo of it before I get to it!)

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.