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Even being Aspie, one of the single most literal-minded beings on this earth, this one...just...yah.
We had a story in the paper...sometime this week...not gonna lie, I just work here, I don't read it...but the story was about some charity pie-eating contest or something of that sort.
*pause inserted for dirty jokes*
Yes. Well. There was a picture of the winner and the main caption under the picture read Laying "Waist" To The Competition. See, it's a homonym joke, see...instead of waste...it's an eating contest, eating gains weight, around the waist? We even put it in quotation marks for you? (Ah, but you all have two brain cells to clack together, you'd get it even without the quotation marks, right?
) Yes, I agree it's stupid but it's newspaper humor.
Apparently, it was too intelligent for this middle-aged-sounding fellow (I only mention that because I don't think it was some punk pranking me, he sounded rather serious about the whole thing, which just makes it funnier) who just called me, upset and "embarrassed" that his area's newspaper was so poorly edited that we missed such a mistake. He demanded the voicemail of the person responsible for the caption, and insisted that after he was done leaving them a voicemail about such a "disgusting" error that he would be calling back to speak directly to the editor.
I just transferred him to the voicemail and I'll hand him straight off to the editor if/when he does call back. If I had wanted to be an elementary English teacher, I'd have stayed in college...
We had a story in the paper...sometime this week...not gonna lie, I just work here, I don't read it...but the story was about some charity pie-eating contest or something of that sort.
*pause inserted for dirty jokes*
Yes. Well. There was a picture of the winner and the main caption under the picture read Laying "Waist" To The Competition. See, it's a homonym joke, see...instead of waste...it's an eating contest, eating gains weight, around the waist? We even put it in quotation marks for you? (Ah, but you all have two brain cells to clack together, you'd get it even without the quotation marks, right?
) Yes, I agree it's stupid but it's newspaper humor. Apparently, it was too intelligent for this middle-aged-sounding fellow (I only mention that because I don't think it was some punk pranking me, he sounded rather serious about the whole thing, which just makes it funnier) who just called me, upset and "embarrassed" that his area's newspaper was so poorly edited that we missed such a mistake. He demanded the voicemail of the person responsible for the caption, and insisted that after he was done leaving them a voicemail about such a "disgusting" error that he would be calling back to speak directly to the editor.
I just transferred him to the voicemail and I'll hand him straight off to the editor if/when he does call back. If I had wanted to be an elementary English teacher, I'd have stayed in college...
Awesome. I wish the papers around here were that original.
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