if...

...you're a Royal Navy officer in charge of a new stealth ship's sea trials, the last thing you want to do is run aground in public view.

...you're a BBC News web editor, the last thing you want to do is use a pull-quote that draws attention to your spelling error to readers who might otherwise not have read down to the 11th 'graph.




(crossposted to cranky_editors)

thank you, Cecil Adams

Gee, why *didn't the American rebels just use bows and arrows instead of guns?

A straight answer from Straight Dope.

both yay and grrr

I was about to post this as a comment in FB, but then at the last minute I noticed that what FB had shown me was a friend (schizokitty) commenting in the FB of someone she knows, but whom I do not. Rather than going ranty on some stranger's page, I figured it would be more polite for me to post here. ( rantiness follows, click here )