[Mishmash] When Wrong Is Right

Hugh Gigante hgigante at optonline.net
Sun Dec 2 03:34:24 CST 2007


When I was a teenager, one of the local newspapers had a tradition . . . 
they would pay anyone who found a spelling or grammatical error in the 
newspaper $5.00. And that was the New York Daily News . . . not known as a 
literary leader!

The other day I was sitting in a hotel room watching the Weather Channel, 
and they reported (complete with graphics) that 37% of the state of Georgia 
was under "Extreme Droute" conditions, and 77% under "Severe" droute 
conditions.

When I asked through email what part of North Carolina had been annexed by 
Georgia to make up the additional 14%, the first response I got was from 
someone titling themselves as a producer. She asked me to better explain my 
question. When I did the response was that those were the actual numbers as 
reported by the state, and they (the weather channel) was not responsible 
for inaccurate information it reported.

Makes one want to vote for a law requiring an IQ test before letting people 
breed!

Hugh 




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