This is not the only “error” I have seen on journalistic websites. Now I know that these articles are ususally written and posted in a hurry, but can’t they spare the time to have one or two people proofread the article? This would take five minutes at the maximum, and would certainly prevent the “egg on face” (Pun intended).
Well, yolk can be very oppressive. Besides, spell check would never catch that. My children won’t eat eggs, for example, so if just threatened with yolks they might indeed be horrified.
Actually, I could probably be opressed by yolk also, because I hate eggs in anything other than pancakes ,cakes, pastry, etc.
And I’m also sure that that error was missed because spell-check didn’t catch it (yolk is spelled correctly after all), but I still think they should get someone (preferably several someones) to proofread these articles. Like I said, this would take a maximum of five minutes of each proofreaders time.
What, are you crazy? If they wait 5 minutes they might actually report something accurate and not filled with speculation. That’s not the way the news works.
I hear most Iraqis are very conscious of their cholesterol. It’s right up there on their list of priorities, just behind “not getting blowed up by all of the shit falling out of the sky.”
You know, the more I think about the Iraqis being under Saddams yolk the stranger the images become.
I think I’m going to stop by the supermarket on my way home, and get me a dozen of those “Opress-O-Matics ™” and make my wife and kids cringe in fear of my egg-saggerated egg-citement…
Egg-cactly!
I propose a toast to whomever thought of the pun. Grits because without ham this place would be in a jam instead of the wonderful way to kill time that it hash become.
In their quest to be “first” on the web with hard-boiled news, news outlets have all but abandoned the art of proofreading. Meaning accurate grammar is toast, the web is jammed with errors, and the journalists spend all their hours trying to butter up their advertisers.