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Be or not be!
Hamlet’s soliloquy (above) leaves a bit to be desired with a couple of “tos” missing, doesn’t it?
Missing one “to” was the front-page lead story on the April 22 edition of The Sydney Morning Herald (below).
To be fair, Mediocre Bytes picked up this little subbing hiccup in what was most likely the first edition off the paper’s aging presses that night – the paper lobbed on a Brisbane footpath – but even so!
The paper’s splash, for fuck’s sake! You would think that for that fuck’s sake of first appearances, they could have nailed four paragraphs without an error!
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A royal blue
Someone should give somebody at the ABC TV a quick and short lesson in history or civics.
Our national broadcaster has been promoting its live coverage of next weekend’s coronation of King Charles III by telling viewers it’s a chance to see Britain’s monarch “ascend the throne”.
First of all, yes, he is Britain’s monarch but he is also ours, as will be his son Will, and Will’s son George will be too, unless we wake up to ourselves and become a republic.
Second, Chuck actually ascended the throne at about 3.10pm on 8 September last year when his mum drew her last royal breath.
This is cleary wrong!
You would think by now that The Courier-Mail might have learnt not to drop off copies at any Sunshine Coast cafe likely to be frequented by long-time past employee and still eagle-eyed retired rugby league writer extraordinaire and Suncorp Stadium media hall of famer Barry Dick.
We are indebted to Barry who probably spat out a mouthful of flat white after spotting this error the other morning.
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We are indebted to another long-term former Curious-Snail employee, Len Swine, for picking up this little gem. It appears Janet Albrechtsen may not know the paper she rights – sorry – writes for!
In her defence, Les points out the paper’s masthead is often obscured, perhaps explaining the error. Whatever weerks for Ms Albrechtsen, we guess.
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