Indo errors

Victor

Is this the largest error ever from the Indo? Only out by €63,000,000,000.

http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/9139660?view=Eircomnet

Tax rise needed to fund €7b plan: ESRI
From:The Irish Independent
Tuesday, 24th October, 2006

THE State's independent economic advisers have warned ministers that they will have to raise taxes if they want to deliver key infrastructural schemes over the next seven years.

And In a scathing evaluation of the €70bn National Development Plan, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) also said the Government's tortuous decentralisation programme was bad value for money.

Dundalk Daily

Indo group gone to the dogs long ago.

Wishbone Ash

Not as interesting as the line they had several years ago from one of the Nolan sisters referring to a Frank Sinatra concert:

"He kept blowing kisses and wánking at us" ('winking')

DMC

Ah. That one about Sinatra gets changed from time to time, as it becomes second and third hand and memories dim.

That was the Irish Press, renowned for their typos.

The actual quote was "All through the show he kept smiling and **** at us."

Still an absolute classic, thanks for reminding me of it!

Wishbone Ash

DMC wrote:

Ah. That one about Sinatra gets changed from time to time, as it becomes second and third hand and memories dim.

That was the Irish Press, renowned for their typos.

The actual quote was "All through the show he kept smiling and **** at us."

Still an absolute classic, thanks for reminding me of it!

OOps, sorry for getting it wrong!

Capt'n Midnight

re typo's didn't The Guardian have it's name spelt incorrectly during a typesetters strike ?

DMC

It is know as "The Grauniad" by others because of its old propensity to misspell

Wishbone Ash wrote:

OOps, sorry for getting it wrong!

Apologies for being a pedant!

Andrew 83

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

re typo's didn't The Guardian have it's name spelt incorrectly during a typesetters strike ?

As far as I know "The Grauniad" was never actually printed but, as has been said, is often used in reference to the paper due to its spelling errors over time.

Mad Finn

There's oodles of these old stories from newspapermen from yesteryear. I don;t know how many of them are true.

Like the famous one from (I think) the Irish Times on the occasion of a visit by Queen Victoria in the 19th century, which SHOULD have read 'Crowds cheered and waved flags as the Queen passed over Carlisle Bridge' but, er, didn't.

L1011

There was also the Irish Times TV section promoting the RTÉ News For The Dead a few times...

Victor

A spot in the Metro during the week had a palentologist find a "123m" bone. :eek: Good thing that one died out.

FlutterinBantam

:eek: Someone reads the Metro!!!

Capt'n Midnight

yeah it's handy for the TV

where is that site that had windows XP release out by 18,000 years ?

Milktrolley

Victor wrote:

A spot in the Metro during the week had a palentologist find a "123m" bone. :eek: Good thing that one died out.

Must have a look at that. What day of the week was that?

The Carlow People here has loads of typos - nothing funny though . The Examiner (I think) ran a, er, revealing photograph of a goalkeeper during a GAA match about 20 years ago. The photographer was behind the goal and got more than he bargained for during an action shot while the keeper was taking a kick-out. It was corrected for later editions, so the story goes.

Twice in the past year, The Nationalist, our other local paper, has ran similar pictures of Gaelic footballers. The court case over the initial photo is expected to draw to a close fairly soon.

Victor

Milktrolley wrote:

Must have a look at that. What day of the week was that?

Some day last week, left hand page, bottom half near the spine. First third of the paper.

There was something else stupid that day, but I can't remember what it was.