Posted on 03/16/2016 8:10:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
It has just been announced that President Obama will nominate Merrick Garland to NOT being confirmed to the Supreme Court. The Senate will be following the advice of Joe Biden to not confirm any nominations to the Supreme Court so Garland's name is doomed to fade away to being a mere footnote in history. On the plus side, another possible nominee, Sri Srinivasan, although he was not named by Obama, will forever be remembered. Not for anything he has done as a judge but for inspiring perhaps the funniest newspaper correction ever. The New York Times yesterday, perhaps thinking that Srinivasan would be nominated to the high court, published a background story about him which resulted in a correction which shall live on now and forever unto the end of time in the annals of humor.
By now you are wondering what could be so funny about a correction to a story. Well, you can see it for yourself below but a warning: please put your coffee cups down now so as not to splatter the contents all over your computer screen when you read the correction:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Sorry, PJ, we love you, but this is a no clickbait zone.
Just click on the link to the “funniest newspaper correction ever” link in the excerpt.
That is hilarious.
Well I’m glad the corrected the name of the village in frickin’ !!!INDIA!!!! where sri srinivasan was born! WTH? You want a slurpee with that scotus decision? (Sorry, couldn’t help myself)
...love me some Newsbusters.
Yeah, no thanks. He can post it here if he likes. No clickbait.
Correction: March 15, 2016
An earlier version of this article misspelled in one instance the name of a village in India where the family of Sri Srinivasan once lived. The village is Mela Thiruvenkatanathapuram, not Mela Thiruvenkanathapuram.
Sheesh. The link goes straight to the NYT site! If you wanted to see the correction you should be willing to go to the source.
That’s it? Why, I’m numb with pain from laughing so hard! I’ve not laughed this hard Ted Kennedy’s death! I’m breathless, speechless, and scarcely able to breathe from laughing so hard.
So they left out the letters “at” in the middle of the name? Hilarious.
OK, I'll be honest, I still check out those games; only now I need my reading glasses to do it!
Speaking of funny, my wife is complaining that with Obama mumbling on all the channels - she isn’t getting to watch ...The Price is Right... which has much more intellectual content - then then what Mullah Obama is mumbling about now.
I’ve found Newsbusters to possess merit.
Dead rats lying in the sun for a month possess more intellectual content that anything the peter-puffin Kenyan ever said.
Just before the returns came on TV, I mentioned to my wife that Trump was sure to win in our state of Florida. My wife who knows NOTHING about politics but likes to argue with me said that won't happen. So I bet her $25 that Trump would win here. Much to my amazement she took my bet. Then I told her Trump would be announced the winner the INSTANT the polls close in the Central Time Zone Panhandle counties. You should have seen the look of shock on her face when that was exactly what happened.
I already owed her $25 for a bucket of beer she bought me on Sunday at Bayside, Miami so now we are even.
lol
Damn... all this time I thought it was spelled Mela Thiruvenkatanatahapuram…
Correction: March 15, 2016
An earlier version of this article misspelled in one instance the name of a village in India where the family of Sri Srinivasan once lived. The village is Mela Thiruvenkatanathapuram, not Mela Thiruvenkanathapuram.
Okay, got it....................
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