Showing posts with label bad choice of words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad choice of words. Show all posts

Monday, 13 July 2009

Worst. Pun. Ever.

My town holds an annual Roald Dahl festival.

Just so you've got that:

Roald Dahl.
Festival.

No Hitchcock.

My local newspaper reported it thus:


Sunday, 5 July 2009

H1N1: It's Got a Lot Worse. Possibly.

According to my local newspaper's front page, Swine Flu has got a hell of a lot worse, mutated and has now started infecting P.C.'s.

Or the proofreader simply didn't get the irony of the choice of headline wording.