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Cocktails in Arlington Last Night?

By FishbowlDC on August 2, 2006 9:50 AM

We’ve seen (and committed) plenty of copy-editing mistakes. But the copy editor of page 21 of today’s Express takes the cake for most mistakes in a single less-than-fifty-word blurb. See if you can make any sense of it:

“PITHY HEADLINE: Missouri, known as own as the Show Me State, is cracking dow the Show Me State, is cracking down on. Gov. Bob Holden on Thursday signed ri, known as the Show State, is on. Gov. sexuall mile of 40-45WORDS. (AP)”

That garbled mess inexplicably appeared next to a small picture of Jackie Chan. Only one word comes to mind: redunkculous (copy desk: Can you spell check that?).

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