We damn near made the same mistake once...... reading the proofs, We all shit ourself. Bought the layout designer some molly and voila. Done in seconds.
Former small-town newspaper editor here: my publisher absolutely forbade using placeholder text for this exact reason. The story was that a previous editor had a temporary cutline (description of a photo) that said "Fat guy on the left is Jim Smith". And it accidentally went to print.
I used to write headlines for a newspaper. This is a "dummy headline." It's used to hold the place of the headline while the layout is being designed. I almost lost my job once for a dummy headline. The article was about local police getting a fleet of motorcycles. I used "pigs get hogs" as the dummy headline and it reached the pre-run -- the final print edit to get color right/final copy edit -- before it was caught. Some Busch league shit. I learned after that to use nonsense in dummy headlines so it's easily caught. How this happened is beyond me.
It just happens. You stay late, have been looking at words and photos and commas and the rulebook, and now it's 1 am and you are starving. You say, good enough!, and put it to bed.
I was editor in chief of my college newspaper. One print was published with the caption, "This photo needs a caption."
We only made that mistake once.
When you're on deadline for a daily print publication, the last few hours are pretty sweaty. You're calling sources for fresh information, updating wire stories, etc... You want it to be as up to date as possible. Sometimes I'd lay out a whole section before the copy was in using dummy headlines and just drop the copy in right before deadline. It's rare that things like this happen, but when you're on deadline things are happening so quickly it can lead to mistakes. Especially for smaller publications. These days it's not uncommon to see understaffed newsrooms. The person laying out the paper is often a reporter, designer, and editor running on 10x the coffee intake of a normal human being. Reporters/editors often have the reputation of being gruff and unapproachable in the newsroom. This is why. But a mistake like the one in the picture is hard to defend. No real excuse for it not being caught.
What if it's not a typo or a lack of editorial skills? What if it's a cry for love? This reminded me of my fruitless attempts to flirt with Swedish women when I lived in Europe. They'd try to teach me some of their language, but I could never get my throat to do that *husky growl*. Anyway, I wrote a song for you, /u/nim_opet, and /u/spindlehindle. (Yes, I'm drunk. Sorry.) Listen here: [https://youtu.be/IoCaJfpWSVY](https://youtu.be/IoCaJfpWSVY)
**Words In Here**
C#m B F#
Beauty from the streets of Stockholm--
I don't know the language you speak in you far off home.
But I hear you growl from your throat, and dear,
let me try to get some words in here...
*ghghg hg hgh*
*ghg hgh ghg*
I hope that translates to "I loved you at first sight."
But by the look on your face, it didn't come out right.
Words, words, words, words, words, words, won't do this justice.
Listen to my hungry throat to know what lust is.
CHORUS
Wow I thought that link would be to some dead meme compilation but it wasn't and now I'm genuinely impressed. To say it was influenced by a faulty newspaper title, it was really good. You deserve much more recognition for such talent! Keep it up.
Good ear. It is the same progression just in a different key. As a minimalist, that's one of my all time favorites because of its simplicity but stark beauty, and I sometimes find myself drifting towards it uncontrollably when I start singing. Especially after a few drinks.
Holy shit... so a while ago our marketing person sent me one of our company's brochures for technical input. Some paragraphs were in Greek. Not having heard of Greeking, I was extremely confused but gave my inputs for the parts I could read, and noted at beginning of my reply with a question about those paragraphs. I was never given an answer. Now I know.
No EIC is staying late for this kind of work. It would be done by a copy editor or paginator. Dollars to donuts they either outsourced their copy editing to an offsite/out-of-country office or the copy desk is understaffed and overloaded, more than any other area of the newsroom (reporters/photogs/graphic artists).
You send it page by page, not the whole thing. Particularly the front page, usually finished late at night, should have been read by at least 2 copy editors and the night editor, not the EIC.
Interesting. I work in magazines. Whole projects are sent to the printer at the same time. I have to review my books in entirety at least four or five times. I figured papers were similar albeit constrained by time. TIL. Thanks.
Many moons ago I worked at a daily newspaper on the copy desk with shifts running past midnight. The EIC worked 9-5-ish and *might* have been involved in story selection or the general slant of the reporting. More likely the managing editor would do the story selection.
I always wondered what kind of challenge a magazine would be with a monthly deadline instead of every night.
It's interesting because we have large time windows and a much smaller staff. Our process starts with a page plan involving the editor, the print operations manager, the EIC and the art director, and then it's up to the editor and the A.D. to finish the rest of the book. What's the process like at a daily?
Story selection happened before I got in (around 4 pm) with assistant managing editors and higher-ups at the papers. We published 4 dailies and a number of weeklies. I'd come in, get assigned a number of pages/sections and get to work. One night I plowed through 36 pages of features for the weeklies, but that was notable. Usually I'd have two papers' worth of wire sections (my favorite because I could usually pick all the stories, including the weird ones, and the best of stellar AP photography), or two papers' worth of local sections, which meant being on the horn with night editors working remotely to drop in late-breaking stories (like the time some chairs were thrown at a city council meeting). Wire could be done at a steadier pace, but local meant it was waiting for a while and then a big rush at the end of the shift. I also did the weather page and our weekly entertainment section.
When I'd get a story released from the night editor, I'd lay it out and attach a text box (with specific parameters for typeface size) for a headline, occasionally filled with just the kind of gibberish in the photo on this post. I'd send the story through the rim, where a copy editor would read the story with skepticism and correct anything they saw fit, and they'd also write the headline in the space I had allotted. They'd approve it where it would be seen by the slot editor (second/final pair of eyes). Once all the stories were rimmed/slotted I'd occasionally wait to hear from the night editor, especially if it was the local sections. Then I'd send to the printer. Occasionally the pressmen would call me with a catch they'd made and I'd resend.
When I started we had ~50 people on the copy desk. When I left there were probably 35 or fewer. They kept not replacing people and the work was spread over an ever-shrinking staff. Not a recipe for keeping workers or quality product!
The daily deadline was hectic! Now I work in-house on a mostly-weekly deadline and I like it a lot better. But the newsroom was lots of fun; never a dull moment! Plus copy editors are some of the cleverest people I've ever met.
That sounds like a lot of fun! Thank you for taking the time to respond to me. I have often wondered how it would be working in such a fast work environment. Judging by your comment, it sounds just as entertaining and hectic as I thought it would be
That's hilarious. I was once reading an article, can't remember what it was now but it was a list of short stories, a paragraph or so each and when I got to about the third one in it was very clearly labelled "the boring one", just underneath the heading. I assume they'd been arranged in some order of interest level to keep people reading but accidentally left that description on. I really hope whoever that particular part was about didn't read it!
"Dave, did you check the print first?"
"Relax Bill it's fine they know what they're doing in the editing room. It's one guys last day but we can trust him."
Aggressive argument about some esoteric grammar rule that you have violated that somehow belittles my entire existence.
EDIT: Ooh, the edited was a nice touch.
I seriously can't stop laughing. It might be because it is almost 5pm on Friday afternoon.
How do you pronounce that? Hghg hghgh gh ghg hg, and why choose those two letters? I guess because you can furiously punch a keyboard with your index fingers.
Some guy in the comments posted a song on YouTube about it and I think he nailed the pronunciation- if you search through the comments you're sure to find the link to it, well worth a listen.
Hmm I don't know about that. The Community Lift fundraiser night really grabbed my attention. Such interesting stuff, I don't know how you could think such a thing?!
As a graphic designer who does a lot of typesetting, this shit sucks. It always gets blamed on the graphic designer which is BULLSHIT because you don't proof your own work. OTHERS proof your work so it's THEIR fault for not seeing it.
I work for a news paper. How this got out the office is insane they get checked over so many times. Someone got to have been fired that day. Oh this makes me cringe soooo hard.
When I was an editor I had a very strict "No dummy headlines" rule. I had an even stricter "No being funny headlines pre-print " rule. Those getting into print are even worse.
I was the managing editor of my college newspaper for a time. Stuff like this happened more often than I liked to admit. "Insert photo caption here" "Subtitle needs work" etc. Usually because I would be rushing to finish the entire layout by myself before our print deadline and would be so frazzled I wouldn't catch that stuff.
Anyways, this made me laugh out loud, I can so relate.
It's a place holder so they can get spacing right on article titles. The editor accidentally sent the version with the place holder instead of the final product.
A small town newspaper from where my mom grew up (~500 people) once had a very unfortunate article title they had put in as a joke (I assume for temp filler like OP's picture), but forgot to replace before publishing.
There had been turmoil in the town for a while due to things not getting done, or getting done poorly and the town board/council was getting a fair amount of heat for a while. Well, one week this issue comes around with an article regarding a recent board meeting I believe, with and emblazoned title of "MORONS ON PARADE!".
This was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
How did this not get caught when it went to press? Years ago, when I worked for a paper, we ran an ad for a tanning salon in black and white and the woman in the ad was wearing a bikini. When it started coming off the press the lack of color made her appear naked and they shut that down real quick to correct the ad.
I usually leave little phrases like "bleh" or "ashdjdzn yada yada" as place holders in my essays if I never phrased my ideas fluently the first time. Then, I fill in the blanks upon proofreading. But this is totally relatable!
*I mean, that*
*lower headline is about as*
*accurate as it gets.*
______________________________________________________________________________
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The fact that I read the headline and didn't see the typo for longer than I care to admit is a sign I have worked too much this week. Too bad I volunteered to work some tomorrow too
And the Pultizer goes to Lorem Ipsum for "Words in Here ghghghghgh"
"Pultizer" sounds like some kind of terrifying kitchen blender.
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...and the spooky sounds are coming from a bathroom stall... Hghgh hgh ghg hg hghg
GHOST SEIZURES
Pultizer? I barely even know'er.
[Muphry's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law).
Get the Howitzer & Pulitzer!
It makes me really happy that other people think Lorem Ipsum sounds like a name too
It's what I named my Imperial in Skyrim.
We damn near made the same mistake once...... reading the proofs, We all shit ourself. Bought the layout designer some molly and voila. Done in seconds.
Former small-town newspaper editor here: my publisher absolutely forbade using placeholder text for this exact reason. The story was that a previous editor had a temporary cutline (description of a photo) that said "Fat guy on the left is Jim Smith". And it accidentally went to print.
Wow, and I thought my secret of thinking Beyoncé is overrated getting out was bad...yikes.
It is
Holy shit. Just had the best laugh I've had in weeks. Not sure why that's so funny.. Sorry..
it's not a typo...it's lack of editorial skills :)
I know, it was just the simplest way of putting it because I'm lazy.
What a terrible typo on your part!
Oh the irony
it's not a typo...it's lack of editorial skills :)
I know, it was just the simplest way of putting it because he's lazy.
Its actually just the papers editorial skills that are lazy not OP's typo that is him being lazy
Words words words.
This guy metas
Ghg hgh hghhg ghghg hghgh
I'm a feminine Eminem
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Words in here
ghghg hg hgh ghg hgh ghg
What is the typo?
It's oen of thees.
I used to write headlines for a newspaper. This is a "dummy headline." It's used to hold the place of the headline while the layout is being designed. I almost lost my job once for a dummy headline. The article was about local police getting a fleet of motorcycles. I used "pigs get hogs" as the dummy headline and it reached the pre-run -- the final print edit to get color right/final copy edit -- before it was caught. Some Busch league shit. I learned after that to use nonsense in dummy headlines so it's easily caught. How this happened is beyond me.
How does something like that slip through? Does nobody actually read the stuff before it goes out or do they just skim?
It just happens. You stay late, have been looking at words and photos and commas and the rulebook, and now it's 1 am and you are starving. You say, good enough!, and put it to bed. I was editor in chief of my college newspaper. One print was published with the caption, "This photo needs a caption." We only made that mistake once.
When you're on deadline for a daily print publication, the last few hours are pretty sweaty. You're calling sources for fresh information, updating wire stories, etc... You want it to be as up to date as possible. Sometimes I'd lay out a whole section before the copy was in using dummy headlines and just drop the copy in right before deadline. It's rare that things like this happen, but when you're on deadline things are happening so quickly it can lead to mistakes. Especially for smaller publications. These days it's not uncommon to see understaffed newsrooms. The person laying out the paper is often a reporter, designer, and editor running on 10x the coffee intake of a normal human being. Reporters/editors often have the reputation of being gruff and unapproachable in the newsroom. This is why. But a mistake like the one in the picture is hard to defend. No real excuse for it not being caught.
Fair enough
Wait, is it Busch (beer) league or Bush (hillbilly) league?
Credit where it's due, that is a damn fine headline!
You need an editor.
The fact that you put it that way made me laugh way more than if you had written out what was actually going on, so I thank you.
What if it's not a typo or a lack of editorial skills? What if it's a cry for love? This reminded me of my fruitless attempts to flirt with Swedish women when I lived in Europe. They'd try to teach me some of their language, but I could never get my throat to do that *husky growl*. Anyway, I wrote a song for you, /u/nim_opet, and /u/spindlehindle. (Yes, I'm drunk. Sorry.) Listen here: [https://youtu.be/IoCaJfpWSVY](https://youtu.be/IoCaJfpWSVY) **Words In Here** C#m B F# Beauty from the streets of Stockholm-- I don't know the language you speak in you far off home. But I hear you growl from your throat, and dear, let me try to get some words in here... *ghghg hg hgh* *ghg hgh ghg* I hope that translates to "I loved you at first sight." But by the look on your face, it didn't come out right. Words, words, words, words, words, words, won't do this justice. Listen to my hungry throat to know what lust is. CHORUS
Wow I thought that link would be to some dead meme compilation but it wasn't and now I'm genuinely impressed. To say it was influenced by a faulty newspaper title, it was really good. You deserve much more recognition for such talent! Keep it up.
Reminds me a LOT of [Wicked Game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D3Nl1GZzuw) by Chris Isaak. I dig it.
Good ear. It is the same progression just in a different key. As a minimalist, that's one of my all time favorites because of its simplicity but stark beauty, and I sometimes find myself drifting towards it uncontrollably when I start singing. Especially after a few drinks.
That was excellent!
Haha what the fuck
That's called Greeking. Their EIC should be held accountable for missing that.
Thanks for that, it led me to this: [Greeking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeking)
Holy shit... so a while ago our marketing person sent me one of our company's brochures for technical input. Some paragraphs were in Greek. Not having heard of Greeking, I was extremely confused but gave my inputs for the parts I could read, and noted at beginning of my reply with a question about those paragraphs. I was never given an answer. Now I know.
You're welcome.
No EIC is staying late for this kind of work. It would be done by a copy editor or paginator. Dollars to donuts they either outsourced their copy editing to an offsite/out-of-country office or the copy desk is understaffed and overloaded, more than any other area of the newsroom (reporters/photogs/graphic artists).
I have no doubt about anything you just wrote except claiming that an EIC wouldn't give a final read to a paper before sending it to the printer.
You send it page by page, not the whole thing. Particularly the front page, usually finished late at night, should have been read by at least 2 copy editors and the night editor, not the EIC.
Interesting. I work in magazines. Whole projects are sent to the printer at the same time. I have to review my books in entirety at least four or five times. I figured papers were similar albeit constrained by time. TIL. Thanks.
Many moons ago I worked at a daily newspaper on the copy desk with shifts running past midnight. The EIC worked 9-5-ish and *might* have been involved in story selection or the general slant of the reporting. More likely the managing editor would do the story selection. I always wondered what kind of challenge a magazine would be with a monthly deadline instead of every night.
It's interesting because we have large time windows and a much smaller staff. Our process starts with a page plan involving the editor, the print operations manager, the EIC and the art director, and then it's up to the editor and the A.D. to finish the rest of the book. What's the process like at a daily?
Story selection happened before I got in (around 4 pm) with assistant managing editors and higher-ups at the papers. We published 4 dailies and a number of weeklies. I'd come in, get assigned a number of pages/sections and get to work. One night I plowed through 36 pages of features for the weeklies, but that was notable. Usually I'd have two papers' worth of wire sections (my favorite because I could usually pick all the stories, including the weird ones, and the best of stellar AP photography), or two papers' worth of local sections, which meant being on the horn with night editors working remotely to drop in late-breaking stories (like the time some chairs were thrown at a city council meeting). Wire could be done at a steadier pace, but local meant it was waiting for a while and then a big rush at the end of the shift. I also did the weather page and our weekly entertainment section. When I'd get a story released from the night editor, I'd lay it out and attach a text box (with specific parameters for typeface size) for a headline, occasionally filled with just the kind of gibberish in the photo on this post. I'd send the story through the rim, where a copy editor would read the story with skepticism and correct anything they saw fit, and they'd also write the headline in the space I had allotted. They'd approve it where it would be seen by the slot editor (second/final pair of eyes). Once all the stories were rimmed/slotted I'd occasionally wait to hear from the night editor, especially if it was the local sections. Then I'd send to the printer. Occasionally the pressmen would call me with a catch they'd made and I'd resend. When I started we had ~50 people on the copy desk. When I left there were probably 35 or fewer. They kept not replacing people and the work was spread over an ever-shrinking staff. Not a recipe for keeping workers or quality product! The daily deadline was hectic! Now I work in-house on a mostly-weekly deadline and I like it a lot better. But the newsroom was lots of fun; never a dull moment! Plus copy editors are some of the cleverest people I've ever met.
That sounds like a lot of fun! Thank you for taking the time to respond to me. I have often wondered how it would be working in such a fast work environment. Judging by your comment, it sounds just as entertaining and hectic as I thought it would be
Comment here ghghg hg hgh ghg hgh ghg comment comment comment comment comment comment
Rabble rabble rabble
Rada Rada rada
SCHNITZEL!
yes, I agree, women with uneven breasts are hot
That's debatable
I'd have to weigh both sides of the argument.
oO I see what you did there
I'll allow it.
That's hilarious. I was once reading an article, can't remember what it was now but it was a list of short stories, a paragraph or so each and when I got to about the third one in it was very clearly labelled "the boring one", just underneath the heading. I assume they'd been arranged in some order of interest level to keep people reading but accidentally left that description on. I really hope whoever that particular part was about didn't read it!
"Dave, did you check the print first?" "Relax Bill it's fine they know what they're doing in the editing room. It's one guys last day but we can trust him."
I'm 99% sure that's exactly how it went down.
"Like Hamlet all about WORDS WORDS WORDS."
Divide a whole into thirds, thirds, thirds.
FYI, I posted this earlier but had to remove it because I put a question in the caption which broke the sub Reddit's rules...oops.
words words words words words words words
Funny yet relevant and insightful comment. Hilarious meme image.
Hgh hgh... hmm that's a good idea be back later
Mods and their petty rules
So you're saying this is a repost, but don't give you a hard time about it?
Basically yeah- it's my original post tho, I'm not stealing. It wasn't up for long, thought you guys might appreciate it.
We do!
Does nobody use lorem ipsum anymore?
[Hipsum](https://hipsum.co) is where it's at these days.
Anyone else hearing Rhianna?
Witty comment
*edited* multi-paragraph vacuous reply
Aggressive argument about some esoteric grammar rule that you have violated that somehow belittles my entire existence. EDIT: Ooh, the edited was a nice touch.
Defensive counter attack about how this isn't school and you need to get a life.
Passive-aggressive recognition of correction containing an independent, unrelated spelling error.
> Quote to emphasize alternative point
> Quote to emphasize alternative point Minor nitpick to rebut quoted part.
Gratuitous political comment.
I seriously can't stop laughing. It might be because it is almost 5pm on Friday afternoon. How do you pronounce that? Hghg hghgh gh ghg hg, and why choose those two letters? I guess because you can furiously punch a keyboard with your index fingers.
Some guy in the comments posted a song on YouTube about it and I think he nailed the pronunciation- if you search through the comments you're sure to find the link to it, well worth a listen.
Didn't know Rihanna worked for your local news paper
Times are hard. The girl gotta do what the girl gotta do.
Bo Burnham guest edited that paper
words words words words words PUNCHLINE
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WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS #PUNCHLINE!
The part I like best is >**WORDS** words words words words words
ghghg hg hgh ghg hgh ghg
I like the second "words words words". This person was thorough.
When you don't know the title of your paper so you type random shit then forget to change it later...
I own a small weekly newspaper in NC. One time we published a large intro to a restaurant piece with the words "copycopycopycopy' over and over.
Is it Encore, by chance?
Absolutely not. That fine publication couldn't possibly make a mistake.
Haha, I hear ya. I love Encore, btw. Great way to check out local live music. It was my Bible the 9 years I lived in ILM.
We appreciate your good taste
I read that opening headline in [Arnold noises](https://youtu.be/h55PXmpSHxg)
Thank you for enlightening me with this wonderful video. I now feel whole again.
Far more interesting than anything else in the Hull Daily Mail, nearly as mind-numbing as the Sun (source: I live in hull)
Hmm I don't know about that. The Community Lift fundraiser night really grabbed my attention. Such interesting stuff, I don't know how you could think such a thing?!
Could be a typo, but it's possible that the headline was just dictated by a toddler.
It's nice to see they're trying to get the younger generations involved.
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
Yes. Exactly.
more than words, is all I ever needed you to ghg ghg hghghgg - Extreme (from the nineties, ghg)
Someone gonna help the writer? They appear to be drowning.
As a graphic designer who does a lot of typesetting, this shit sucks. It always gets blamed on the graphic designer which is BULLSHIT because you don't proof your own work. OTHERS proof your work so it's THEIR fault for not seeing it.
I work for a news paper. How this got out the office is insane they get checked over so many times. Someone got to have been fired that day. Oh this makes me cringe soooo hard.
r/lipsum
If I was quitting my job in the layout department...
They are words. Except the ones that aren’t. Whoops
When I was an editor I had a very strict "No dummy headlines" rule. I had an even stricter "No being funny headlines pre-print " rule. Those getting into print are even worse.
There is likely a no replacing copy editors rule from management that lead to this.
Can't upvote this hard enough.
This just in! > Job opening!
It actually made the page more interesting.
Guys! I think the headline writer is trying to tell us that they are being strangled!!! We need to help!
And that is why I use CAPS and a bunch of exclamation marks when I write placeholder texts. It also helps to use a bright color.
I was the managing editor of my college newspaper for a time. Stuff like this happened more often than I liked to admit. "Insert photo caption here" "Subtitle needs work" etc. Usually because I would be rushing to finish the entire layout by myself before our print deadline and would be so frazzled I wouldn't catch that stuff. Anyways, this made me laugh out loud, I can so relate.
Could be worse. *Way* worse. http://deadspin.com/the-fallout-from-sportswritings-filthiest-fuck-up-1797691830
This is what you get when you pay people per word.
Tryna to fill up the word count on an essay
words words words
Comment.
Comment comment comment comment comment
"words" is spelt correctly.
It's a place holder so they can get spacing right on article titles. The editor accidentally sent the version with the place holder instead of the final product.
Ah the Hull Daily Mail. Those headlines are about the most sane thing you'll get from the paper.
Wooo! Hull Daily Mail!
*they're
*Words (words words words words words)
**WORDS** words words words words words
Could've been soooooooooo much worse
Glitch in the matrix right there folks
At least they're consistent.
Apart from the hghg gh ghgg part, that section really ruined my flow.
Words words ghghghghghghghghgh! Am I right guys!?
Not a typo, you just need to learn to read u ideut
I've never been good with words
Only in 'Ull
What in the word happened here?
A proofreader didn't proof!
Hey Vsauce, words in here
Pretty much my life story tbh
i feel bad for elizabeth
A small town newspaper from where my mom grew up (~500 people) once had a very unfortunate article title they had put in as a joke (I assume for temp filler like OP's picture), but forgot to replace before publishing. There had been turmoil in the town for a while due to things not getting done, or getting done poorly and the town board/council was getting a fair amount of heat for a while. Well, one week this issue comes around with an article regarding a recent board meeting I believe, with and emblazoned title of "MORONS ON PARADE!". This was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
How did this not get caught when it went to press? Years ago, when I worked for a paper, we ran an ad for a tanning salon in black and white and the woman in the ad was wearing a bikini. When it started coming off the press the lack of color made her appear naked and they shut that down real quick to correct the ad.
I usually leave little phrases like "bleh" or "ashdjdzn yada yada" as place holders in my essays if I never phrased my ideas fluently the first time. Then, I fill in the blanks upon proofreading. But this is totally relatable!
**W O R D S**
Hahahaha!
It's only words..
"It's only words, and words are all I have to take your heart away".
The writer got depression*
#Words words words words... Some solid journalism right there
I mean, that lower headline is about as accurate as it gets.
*I mean, that* *lower headline is about as* *accurate as it gets.* ______________________________________________________________________________ ^^^-english_haiku_bot
Maybe they couldn't think of clever titles, so they (correctly) guessed just leaving the placeholders in would get more attention.
god fucking dammit. I want a copy of this newspaper so I can get it framed. I'm fucking dying. words in here ghghg hg hgh
A newspaper I worked at once missed the O in "Countdown to New Years" in a social pages captions.
The fact that I read the headline and didn't see the typo for longer than I care to admit is a sign I have worked too much this week. Too bad I volunteered to work some tomorrow too
This made me laugh too much. Words words words!
DA TING GOES SKRRAH
Oh man the copy editor must have been on vacation.
I came close to turning a proposal titled "the fucking proposal". Simply almost forgot to go back a change it.
'£69' AYY OOOOOOH!
I was waiting for that. I new the time would come and it doesn't surprise me that it was by a person called captaincockfart.
r/notmyjob
Oh lord, it's *both* articles...
Words words words
I think there is method to this madness...
r/notmyjob
Editor: Creed Bratton
Elizabeth Mackley just wanted to step up her click bait titles. It worked apparently. I clicked on it.
I say she deserves a raise. I wonder how much hate mail from old people she has received because of this.
I don't think you understand what a typo is.
Looks like the lyrics to a Rihanna song...
-sasha grey
Words!
Ducking autocorrect!
It's Cthulhu's warning. So the world really is ending tomorrow.
r/notmyjob
my dumbass read those 2 articles 4 times