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Show WE EDITORS An editor eulogized a certain worthy lady who had recently died. "She was noted for her charity." he wrote. The printer had H, "she was noted for her chastity." The editor proof reading read-ing scrawled a query mark over the last word. This is what appeared ap-peared in the paper: "She was noted for her chastity (!)" Then there is the famous double barrelled bull made by a printer who transposed a "battle scarred veteran" into a "battle scared veteran," and when called on by the irate colonel next day to correct cor-rect it made matters ten times worse by referring to the victim as a "bottle scarred veteran." |