Category Archives: Humor

A Møøse Once Bit my Sister

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Crunks 2009: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections

We reached a strange milestone this year when CNN fact checked a comedy sketch from Saturday Night Live

Which I already knew, via The Daily Show

There was one correction related to a story to which I had linked (from another source, and which is now a dead link)

Bear sighting: An item in the National Briefing in Sunday’s Section A said a bear wandered into a grocery story in Hayward, Wis., on Friday and headed for the beer cooler. It was Thursday.

I really like this one:

This article was amended on Tuesday 20 January 2009. In our entry on Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon Days, we referred to a Prairie Ho Companion; we meant a Prairie Home Companion. This has been corrected.

Ah, Lake Woebegone, where every Ho is above average.

This Just In

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The Onion: Eagles Settle For Field Goal After 260-Yard Drive

“It’s disappointing not to score a touchdown when you keep a drive alive for more than three and a half quarters,” said quarterback Donovan McNabb, who completed 32 of his 66 passes, converted 26 first downs, and was carted off the field for X-rays twice during the drive.

Patriots Lead Colts At Halftime

The Colts offense, however, with Manning’s young receiving corps, has committed several significant errors. But the Indianapolis defense has fared even worse, and has only been able to stop pass plays of four yards or fewer, an insignificant advantage that a seasoned coach like Belichick will find easy to avoid.

“We have to do a better job in the second half, there’s no question about that,” Manning said while heading to the tunnel. “Problem is, the Pats simply never, ever, ever hand the game to you. You have to earn it. If we sit back and wait for them to screw up, we’re sunk, plain and simple.”

Absence is the Best Revenge

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Schott’s Vocab: A Rolling Stone Leads to Rome

This weekend, co-vocabularists have proved that the pen loves company (and misery is mightier than the sword) by Frankensteining proverbs with bizarre, amusing and apposite results

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Living well makes the heart grow fonder.
Absence is the best revenge.

Youth is wasted on a winner.
Everyone hates the young.

All’s fair in love and lemonade.
If life gives you lemons, make war.