Faux (pronounced /ˈfoʊ/, like "foe") is a French word for false or fake. It is often used in English phrases such as faux pearls, and faux news.
~ Wikipedia
I posted this on Facebook last night:
To which Pat Hansen replied:Ok Preston residents, tell me what glaring mistake you find in The Preston Citizen tomorrow when it comes in the mail. I was SOOOOO embarrassed. I didn't catch it until I was archiving.
They probably won't even notice ya think? That obvious? I'd proably miss you.Kristy Nelson replied:
Well, now I'm going to have to read it all over again.Janelle Bartlomé asked:
Is it Jay Leno worthy? If so you could be famous. One time the company I worked for (American Stores- private label department) made a label for Parmesan Cheeese. The first person to catch it was the person putting the cheese into the canister.To which I replied:
No, Janelle, it isn't Leno worthy, but our front page was in September. It was SOOOOOO good. I hope someone did send that one to Leno. The front page top story was that H1N1 had hit Franklin County. Second story was the hospital is soo old that you can't get proper care there. Third story was that the Preston Cemetery is now full & the land owners around the cemetery won't sell. So, you get sick, you can't get health care & when you die, you can't be buried in the cemetery because they are out of room, LOL.Kristy answered:
Kristy, it's like Reiman publications where they hide a needle or a carrot, only this is much more blatant. It went through the other copy editor, BOTH editors (& the pages were laying side by side when they saw them) & through the photo editor.
Rod consoled me that no one would even notice when I went flying into his office with the pages. He didn't notice it even then. I had to point it out & read it to him, LOL
Now I'm really gonna have to look again!To which I replied:
Pat that last paragraph was in answer to your post. Kristy, here's a hint, it's a jump.Denise Ericksen commented:
RaNae, you make me laugh!!!! And that is a good thing.I didn't reply to Denise. What could I say??
But Pat replied to my reference to the Sept. 23rd issue's front page with:
This really is one of the funniest things I've heard, oh my!! It went through the editors etc.. lol---how ironic though. H1N1-death and no place to be buried? I have a gallows sense of humor (blame nursing)...I replied:
Me too, Pat. The only thing I can say in my own defense is that I was having gall bladder surgery that day.The original mistake was in the Recipe Corner. Jean Carter had taken FOUR recipes from an online site that supplies newspapers with filler articles. She has had a really hard time getting "real" people to interview & share their recipes. It's really a shame, because that is one of my favorite columns in the whole paper. We usually only have 3 recipes. There is really only room for 3 recipes on the social page, page 5, so I was going to have to jump a recipe.
The kicker this week is: "Mr. PHS crowned at Saturday's faux pageant." I told the editors to read the kicker carefully. I wanted their opinion.
One of them said, "fox pageant?" You spelled fox wrong. I said it's pronouced "foe" and means fake. His answer? "Sure, leave it."
High school senior boys do a spoof on a beauty pageant & are judged in talent, poise & 3 other things.
There was one recipe that was going to be a real bugger to set & I saved it for page 7. I knew I could spread that baby out if I had to on that page. I worked really hard on it, too. Not as hard as I thought I would have to, for which I thanked the Lord fervently. Tuesday mornings are real adrenalin rushes. Some are more so than others.
We made it just a few minutes past our deadline & I took a few minutes to unwind. I started cleaning up the work for this week, getting ready for next week. Filing proof pages & paper copy, moving documents & photos from the working folder into a file to be archived on CD, emptying the email inbox & trash.
This week I needed to do tear sheets for FamilyFeatures, the online site that we had used the recipes from. I printed out those 2 pages & there it was, as big as life!!! Two separate recipes for Mexi-Meatball Kabobs. It was too late to do anything. The paper was on the press clear across town in a totally different facility. But, as Rod said, no one's gonna notice. And I really don't think anyone will. They are on 2 separate pages.
2 comments:
RaNae, glad you cleared the papers' goofs up for me because, even though I noticed the Mr. PHS "Faux" Pageant I didn't think that was the goof and I didn't pick up on the recipe one at all. You see, I am the perfect person to come and visit anyone because I WOULDN'T notice cobwebs in the corner.
The largest recipe goof the Citizen has had, I think, occurred several years ago with "Sweet and Sour Pork". Sounded so good so I tried it. Now I am one who follows the recipe EXACTLY and doesn't know lots about spices so when it called for 3 Tbsp. of Ginger (should have been 3 tsp.) I put in the 3 Tbsp. and it was so AWFUL that Wayne wouldn't even let me feed it to the dog!!! I've had trouble trusting the recipe corner ever since.
Even though I hate to cook, (I let Wayne do some now) I have a couple of things that actually are good that I'd share with Jean Carter but I sure don't want my mug in the paper!!! (Can't believe I'm saying this......)
Cool, I'll tell her. She doesn't make you have your picture in the paper. We try to make sure the recipes are correct. A lot of times we'll try them. Abby used to try them a lot, I try them & Courtney has tried some.
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