LOL of the week

Started by Kauai April 26th, 2010 1:00 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8627335.stm

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.
Hehehe.... :laugh:

And so as to not offend anyone, the publish immediately expressed remorse and that it was a mistake. So yeh, no KKK at work here. x3

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Omg lol

That's just terrible. I know some people write things by accident when they're thinking / talking to someone, though. It happens to me often.

Maybe the writer was talking about people and he wrote down "people" instead of "pepper".


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Originally I felt bad for the editor(s) and proofreader(s) because, to be honest, they're the ones at fault, but in that article (or the one I read, anyway), the publisher specifically said it was a mistake and that their proofreaders really couldn't be held responsible because it's such a tough job on a book like that. Which it is, because really, checking every single line to make sure it reads properly in a cookbook... ugggh. XD; I'm glad they're going out of their way to reprint some copies quickly after a fluke like that but I'm even more glad they aren't recalling every single book. They're just casually sending the new ones off and giving them to people who bought the first print free of charge, should they complain. That is awesome business. :)


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This deserves epic lulz. I can't imagine how no editor saw that bit, or if they did why they didn't have the common sense to change it.

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Um, fairly easily, actually. Go find a cookbook. Now read every single line of it and check for typos. Not so easy, huh? That's basically what someone had to do and it looks like they slipped up. :P Honestly, though it's their fault, I can't really blame 'em, haha.


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8627335.stm



Hehehe.... :laugh:

And so as to not offend anyone, the publish immediately expressed remorse and that it was a mistake. So yeh, no KKK at work here. x3
Yeah I read this earlier this week. It was so much fail, it tipped the scale and became win. :D


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Um, fairly easily, actually. Go find a cookbook. Now read every single line of it and check for typos. Not so easy, huh? That's basically what someone had to do and it looks like they slipped up. :P Honestly, though it's their fault, I can't really blame 'em, haha.
Well yeah, but it's not like they just had 1-3 editors(did they?), for the exact reason that it's so huge.