If Only We Could Edit the Ads ...
Hello Punky Brewsters,
I ran across this ad on our "Web site." I'm ripping a page out of the Ehren Meditz Guide to Style and Life and creating a contest. If you can find the mistake in the ad below and post a comment, I'll send you whatever goodies Andy, Donovan and I can scrounge up in The Daily Union's newsroom. I think there's an unused fly trap around here somewhere ...
Here's the ad:
AKC Black Lab pups. Parents good hunters + genital temperament. OFA Hips, vet check, family raised, $200. Wamego. Call 456-8928
Of course it has to do with dogs. I only write about and choose to run things that have to do with pets. Right Vaupel?
AKS
Disclaimer: Andy, Donovan and Bill are not eligible.
I ran across this ad on our "Web site." I'm ripping a page out of the Ehren Meditz Guide to Style and Life and creating a contest. If you can find the mistake in the ad below and post a comment, I'll send you whatever goodies Andy, Donovan and I can scrounge up in The Daily Union's newsroom. I think there's an unused fly trap around here somewhere ...
Here's the ad:
AKC Black Lab pups. Parents good hunters + genital temperament. OFA Hips, vet check, family raised, $200. Wamego. Call 456-8928
Of course it has to do with dogs. I only write about and choose to run things that have to do with pets. Right Vaupel?
AKS
Disclaimer: Andy, Donovan and Bill are not eligible.
posted by The University Daily Kansan at 4:09 PM
6 Comments:
Genital temperament? My money's on "genial."
Ehren
There are SEVERAL problems with that.
For one thing, "genital" is not a positive adjective. I think they may have meant "congenial" but maybe I'm just missing something.
"Family raised," though family ends in an -ly, is still an implied compound modifier (the -ly only refers to adverbs, I think) so it needs a hyphen.
ALSO did the parents have said "genital" temperaments, or do the puppies? If it's the puppies, prolly oughta switch that second sentence around so it isn't confusing.
-PP, copy nymph (don't blame me, that's the name my boyfriend gave me)
Ehren Meditz is a wiener* ... I mean 'winner.' Stay tuned for a list of his fabulous prizes. — AKS
*3 entries found for wiener.
wie·ner
n.
1. Wienerwurst.
2. A frankfurter.
3. Vulgar Slang. A penis.
I feel so gypped.
When I clicked to leave a comment, no one had commented, then after I made PAINSTAKING EFFORT to find all the mistakes (not just the obvious one, DUH) I've already been one-upped by the self-appointed copy god.
Life is so hard sometimes. :D
I called the number to see if the person in the ad could catch their own mistake. But they hung up on me.
— The Vock
To those who Ehren beat to the punch, I leave the words of wisdom a guy named Jesse left in my 1998 high school yearbook:
"Luck: A skill for the ill-prepared"
Of course Jesse is probably cooking meth in his bathtub right now. Though it's better what a tight-jeans wearing, chasin' strange punks out of town in his Chevy, sportin' a cowboy hat to prom, guy named R.J. wrote (and this has not been edited):
"Amanda
Its been fun and real long
have fun at colloge
maek sher you
Drink A Beer for Me
RJ"
— AKS
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