Regret the Error

No one does corrections quite like the Stranger, a weekly paper in Seattle.
For example, when its theatre editor confused two playwrights, the paper made him complete a quiz. That earned praise from us in our round-up of the year in media errors and corrections. Now the paper has published its own round-up of corrections. Some are real, some are just hilarious. This wouldn’t work at every newspaper, but the Stranger is, well, strange. Some samples: for 2006. Not to be outdone, the Stranger’s last issue of 2006 offers more correction-induced enjoyment with the paper’s own

• The Stranger regrets that the word "environmental" was spelled "enviromental" on our February 2 cover. Twice.
• Bradley Steinbacher, the managing editor of The Stranger, regrets sharing an office with Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger,
  especially since Mr. Savage often changes clothes in said office,
  during which Mr. Savage routinely threatens to place his scrotal sack
  on the back of Mr. Steinbacher’s neck. Sometimes this threat is sung to
  the tune of Frère Jacques. Both the threat and the state of Savage’s scrotal sack are regrettable.
• Stranger news writer Sarah Mirk regrets not double-checking
  the visiting hours for Yakima County Jail on November 5, resulting in a
  very, very disappointing end to a six-hour drive through a blinding
  rainstorm.
• Stranger associate editor David Schmader regrets not buying more of that mushroom fudge from that lovely woman at Hempfest.
• In the August 10 issue of The Stranger,
  a feature story on the history of hiphop by Daudi Abe entitled "Going
  Way Back" was mangled by the production department, resulting in an
  unreadable piece. Like all the other times this same fuckup happened
  throughout the year, we regret the error.
• In the June 22 Queer Issue, Stranger reporter Eli Sanders
  suggested that there ought to be a law against straight guys leading on
  gay guys in, oh, say, Las Vegas, while, say, the gay guy is on
  assignment, and while, say, the straight guy is wearing tight jeans and
  ankle socks and looking very gay and talking about past homosexual
  experiences and remarking on the phallic nature of the giant beverage
  container holding the giant drink that the gay guy has just bought him.
  Mr. Sanders does not regret the proposed law, but he does regret the
  situation that led to it, and feels he should have just kissed the guy.
• Charles Mudede, an associate editor of The Stranger, regrets writing in the August 3 issue of The Stranger a review of The Moonstone, a book that was published 140 years ago.
• Christopher Frizzelle, the arts editor of The Stranger,
  regrets being so stoned the month of August that he let associate
  editor Charles Mudede write a review of a book that was published 140
  years ago.

Plenty more where those came from.

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