Saddam is using eggs to terrorize his countrymen?

I found the follwing line in a BBC News Online article :

(The bolding is mine)

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.”

Is “not getting blowed up” ahead or behind “not getting shot in the back of the head by your own countrymen” on the list?

Naturally, cholesterol is quite a bit more important than not getting shot in the back of the head. What kind of question is that? :slight_smile:

I guess you’re right Snoop. Cholesterol really is the silent killer.

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!

Makes sense to me. I can even imagine the public service spots on TV:

This is your *ss.
<crack>
This is your *ss if we catch you disagreeing with Saddam.
<frying noises>
Any questions?

I guess the yolk’s on them.

I’m trying to find a way to work bacon into this thread.

Sorry, Nut Wrench, but that would be impossible, since Muslims don’t eat pork.

It is true, though, that Bush hoped this war would be over easy. But now he’s been left scrambling for victory.

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.

Why am I hungry?