# NY Times correction of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413 "2012-03-10T22:25:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/1 "2012-03-10T22:25:11Z")
I always read the Corrections column, as you never know when something good is going to crop up: > [@](#): > > A picture caption on Friday with an art review of the Armory Show, at Piers 92 and 94 in Manhattan, misstated the title of a work by Kehinde Wiley on display. It is “The Tribute Money II,” not “The Tribute Monkey II.” I wish \*The New Yorker \*still ran those great little “Ho-Hums” on the bottom of the page! ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/2 "2012-03-10T22:35:37Z")
\“That’s very different. Never Mind.”\ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/3 "2012-03-10T22:50:05Z")
That’s a good one. I liked this one, from an article I read Friday: > [@](#): > > An article on Friday about Hector Xavier Monsegur, a computer hacker and informant who led law enforcement agents to several prominent fellow hackers, misstated the given name of one of those he exposed. He is Jeremy Hammond, not Darrell. Darrell Hammond was a long-time cast member of Saturday Night Live who was famous for his impression of Bill Clinton, not a LulzSec hacker. That would have made for a slightly different story. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/4 "2012-03-10T22:54:25Z")
I still recall fondly back in 1993 when the \*Times \*had to correct the title of a Whoopi Goldberg film: “The correct title is _Made in America_, not _Maid in America_.” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/5 "2012-03-11T00:35:27Z")
I’d be more apt to go to the art show if they _were_ featuring “The Tribute Monkey II”. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/6 "2012-03-11T01:03:15Z")
Wednesday evening, I heard NPR make several corrections to Tuesday’s newscast. Details, mostly, but the fuller stories were kinda cool. Things like Belarus is not a part of Russia. And questioning whether Sherman(?) should be remembered as a Disney songwriter (and pointing out that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was not a Disney production). ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/7 "2012-03-11T03:15:08Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I’d be more apt to go to the art show if they _were_ featuring “The Tribute Monkey II”. Out of curiosity, if nothing else. Is the monkey being offered as tribute? Is it collecting tribute, perhaps on behalf of some mafiosa organ grinder? Whatever happened to the first monkey, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/8 "2012-03-11T08:01:07Z")
“We apologise for a misprint in last week’s column in which we inadvertently described Major-General Sir James Farquharson as as ‘bottle-scarred veteran’. This should of course have read ‘battle-scared’.” ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/9 "2012-03-11T14:07:07Z")
The New Yorker does, very occasionally, use these corrections as column fillers. March 12 has one, page 81. They used to do it regularly and I always enjoyed them. My favorite was someone wrote to Dear Abbey complaining that some TV host always signed off “For xxxx and me” (I don’t recall who xxxx was). Abbey went on a riff how grammar was becoming less prescriptive and the person should cool out on the error. The New Yorker printed the exchange without comment, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/10 "2012-03-11T16:13:47Z")
This one is supposedly true: _“The map of Europe, North Africa and the Arab nations published in Monday’s editions contained the following errors: Libya was labeled as the Ukraine; Bulgaria and Romania were transposed; Bosnia-Herzogovina was identified as Bosnia; Montenegro should have been identified as a separate state bordering Serbia; Cyprus and the West Bank were not labeled; Andorra, a country between France and Spain, was not labeled; the Crimean peninsula appeared twice on the Black Sea; Kuwait was not identified by name - instead, the initials of the Knight-Ridder News Service were in its place.”_ I want to see that map now. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/11 "2012-03-11T17:21:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > This one is supposedly true: _“The map of Europe, North Africa and the Arab nations published in Monday’s editions contained the following errors: Libya was labeled as the Ukraine; Bulgaria and Romania were transposed; Bosnia-Herzogovina was identified as Bosnia; Montenegro should have been identified as a separate state bordering Serbia; Cyprus and the West Bank were not labeled; Andorra, a country between France and Spain, was not labeled; the Crimean peninsula appeared twice on the Black Sea; Kuwait was not identified by name - instead, the initials of the Knight-Ridder News Service were in its place.”_ > > I want to see that map now. [Virginian-Pilot](http://hamptonroads.com/archives), November 1992. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/12 "2012-03-11T17:47:47Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Out of curiosity, if nothing else. Is the monkey being offered as tribute? Is it collecting tribute, perhaps on behalf of some mafiosa organ grinder? Whatever happened to the first monkey, anyway? No, no, it’s a Tribute Monkey, as in, it evokes the act and sound of the original as it plays its hits. And it being the \*\*\*second \*\*\*Tribute Monkey that means the first Tribute Monkey could have been a tribute to an entirely different act and this one’s a tribute to the tribute… ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/13 "2012-03-11T18:59:05Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [Virginian-Pilot](http://hamptonroads.com/archives), November 1992. You need to subscribe to see the archives. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/14 "2012-03-12T11:17:18Z")
The correction was made without comment, if I recall correctly, but years ago Reuters once released a brief piece about a meat recall due to contamination. The only problem was that the editorial staff was apparently snoozing on the job, so the lede about a significant recall of beef _patties_ turned into [“…recall 94,400 pounds of frozen ground beef panties…”](http://www.zone38.net/phs/archives/show.php?id=189). Which _still_ makes me giggle, and I’d have loved to see an actual correction clarifying that your frozen meat underpants are probably perfectly safe for human consumption. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/15 "2012-03-12T12:59:23Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > No, no, it’s a Tribute Monkey, as in, it evokes the act and sound of the original as it plays its hits. And it being the \*\*\*second \*\*\*Tribute Monkey that means the first Tribute Monkey could have been a tribute to an entirely different act and this one’s a tribute to the tribute… No, no, the first Tribute Monkey got shut into Davey Jones’s locker. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/16 "2012-03-12T22:23:49Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I wish \*The New Yorker \*still ran those great little “Ho-Hums” on the bottom of the page! Yeah, what happened to those? I often cheated and read those first. Is “ho-hums” just your name for them, or is that what they were really called? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/17 "2012-03-12T22:46:39Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > Yeah, what happened to those? I often cheated and read those first. Is “ho-hums” just your name for them, or is that what they were really called? They really were called Ho-Hums: I have two collection books of them, from 191 and '32. I miss them, too! A few years ago I even write to _The New Yorker_ and proposed collating another collection book, but they weren’t interested. From the 1931 volume: Neatest Trick of the Week [headline in the Long Island Daily Star] WOMAN FALLS 3 STORIES AS SHE WATERS FLOWERS A stray dog with the name E.G. Caldwell has been about the village for a few days.–Carroll County NH Independent –Not old Eddy Caldwell? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/18 "2012-03-14T04:49:51Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > They really were called Ho-Hums: I have two collection books of them, from 191 and '32. I miss them, too! A few years ago I even write to _The New Yorker_ and proposed collating another collection book, but they weren’t interested. From the 1931 volume: > > Neatest Trick of the Week > [headline in the Long Island Daily Star] > WOMAN FALLS 3 STORIES AS SHE WATERS FLOWERS > > A stray dog with the name E.G. Caldwell has been about the village for a few days.–Carroll County NH Independent > –Not old Eddy Caldwell? I read something about E.B. White and I thought that he called them news breaks. They still appear, but rarely. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/19 "2012-03-14T17:21:37Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I’d be more apt to go to the art show if they _were_ featuring “The Tribute Monkey II”. It’s the sequel to his original work, “The Surrender Monkey”. The full and correct title is, “Surrender Monkey II: The Tribute”. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413/20 "2012-03-14T21:10:45Z")
The _Oregonian_ has to “[clarify things](http://www.oregonlive.com/tigard/index.ssf/2012/03/bob_caldwell_was_with_23-year-.html)” about how one of their editors died. He didn’t die in a car _outside_ an apartment, but _inside_, during a “visit” to a young lady friend he had a peculiar relationship with. Of course all the usual odd news web sites picked up on this. So, not exactly being kept quiet. (Link is to _OregonLive_, the _Oregonian_’s web site. Same thing.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-times-correction-of-the-day/615413.md?page=2)