Showing posts with label funny blurbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funny blurbs. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Is that what they do for fun?

Conversation heard by me between my oldest girls:

Emma: "Yay! Break time! Paige, let's go play that game I wanted to play."
Paige: no comment.
Emma: "Please?"
Paige: still no comment
Emma: "Please, Paige? I'll do whatever you want. I promise. Except let you kick me in the face."

I'm still chuckling to myself. ☺

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Quality of Our Local Newspaper

Our hometown newspaper is lovingly known for its errors. We joke a lot in our family, "Well, what did they mess up today?" It has become a game for us to search for the bungle that will inevitably be printed; usually a grammatical error, a misspelled word, an article cut off before the end, etc. For example, my mom's name was misspelled in David's and my wedding announcement. An entire poem was left off of a memorial that my aunt had placed in the paper in memory of my grandmother.

Several years ago though David found one of the funniest blunders I have ever seen in our newspaper. He saved the clipping, and I rediscovered it this week.

Since my scanner won't work, here is the posting as it appeared in the Classifieds between section #28 WANTED TO BUY and section #30 PETS & SUPPLIES:

#29 FIREWOOD
2 Hand-raised house kittens. Free to good home. 507-359-5721

I guess maybe someone ran out of trees in their grove but had a plethora of farm cats? *wink* The editor is WAY overpaid.