crimsonace
Well-Known Member
beanpole said:"As Friday night desk guy at The Recorder (in my hometown of Greenfield, Mass.), I ran a 6-48 atop the jump page: "State pubic utilities board to meet".
One of my co-workers was typing in a middle school basketball story. A girl was named Candice Hunt. Unfortunately, he was thinking alliteratively and the "H" got replaced with a "C" in her last name (and, since he was his own editor and usually put the pages out 30 minutes after deadline, it never got caught).
He sent the girl a hand-written apology. She was probably too young to understand.
I always used "XXX" as my dummy type, so it would at least get caught by the spell-checker. Saved my @$$ a few times, too.