Wendover - west, or its eastern counterpart - is in a place colloquially referred to as somewhere near Egypt. But not out in the toolies - that's about a hundred miles to the east.
Was out that way on a service call yesterday; had to reload a PC's operating system. Not important what operating system, though it was based on Windows 2000. But what's particularly exasperating about the load is that it takes for-ev-er. Even the instructions say 15-30 minutes for any given step of the process.
So there was lots of time for wandering the 95-plus degree parking lot and listening to static on the radio.
On one such excursion, on the way back into the air-conditioned confines of the building, I glanced at the newspapers in the coin machines near the entrance. And saw this:
OK, that's not entirely true. What I saw in that coin-operated box was what's "Above The Fold". If not for that part, I would have passed by without ever seeing anything funny.And you wouldn't be spending time reading anything here.
What was so funny? Look closer...
Hell, that's not even a fat-finger.Had the headline for Speed Week been farther into the paper, it wouldn't have really mattered. But right on the front page?
At least they didn't call it Speed Weed.
2 comments:
What's really funny about that is that the city has two papers that don't proof read the copy. The High Desert Advocate & The Wendover Times don't proof anything before they go to press.
Or read, for that matter. That article about Diamond Rio and Peter Frampton is just painful to read!
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