I know the Americans take their religion seriously these days, but…
… using live canon to sink a ship? Does this involve pelting it with King James Bibles until the sheer weight, or perhaps mass is a better term, gives it a permanent baptismal? Or is it that semi-literitis has struck The Teletubbygraph yet again?
Posted on April 7, 2012, in Uncategorized and tagged Journalistic crap. Bookmark the permalink. 11 Comments.
The Angry Exile 
Hahahahahaha. Well it took me a few seconds to realise the difference and I am Christian, so we may be able to forgive them for this one.
It’s occurred to me since then it might just be over reliance on the spell checker, and some anonymous email poet has shown why that’s not a good idea.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Brilliant! 🙂
I think a minimum of one headline or subhead blunder weekly is now mandatory at The Tele. Might even be holy writ. 😉
My thought is; they pay people for this low quality of work?
I assume they do but who knows, maybe it really is the work experience kids and the bring your son/daughter/dog to work day crowd.
Oh well spotted, I had to re-read the excerpt to get the joke.
Surprising to see it in a main daily. I thought it was normally the internet that gets canon and cannon mixed up.
Well spotted.
There’s a grammar mistake, too…… it should read “has finally sunk“, not “sank”!
Can’t get the bloody staff – well, not literate ones, at least – it’s all that wonderful Lefty Labour “education” they’ve had.
Damn. I missed that or I’d have taken the piss out of them for it too.