Scooped

A newspaper journalist manages to correctly spell “its” and misspell “it’s” in the same block of text. Such are the perils of the 24 hour news cycle.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/labor-tells-voters-youll-be-worse-off-under-dutton-in-new-campaign-ad/news-story/b72d59fbf676effc9358519411b829d5

Let me shaek yoru hnad

 Very sloppy work. 

Not understanding the gravity of the situation

What is it these days? Why don't people know how to correctly use apostrophes? Surely CNN would be capable of correct punctuation. When I was in university, a visibly embarrassed lecturer held a special class to teach some of his students how to use apostrophes. It should not have been necessary to run this class. 

One needs to lift one's game

What is a "reverand?"

 

Unpalatable

The helpful folks at CNN excitedly shared details of the newly unveiled official emblem for the coronation of King Charles III. As a creative commons version is unavailable, it cannot be shown here. Reflecting the King's passionately held environmental concerns, it consists of a rose for England, a shamrock for Northern Ireland, a thistle for Scotland, and a daffodil for Wales. Its colours are in red, white, and blue, in keeping with the Union Flag. 

This report describes the colour scheme's emblem as its colour "palate." Palette is the correct word. Palate is the roof of the mouth, and palette is a range of colours. 

https://tinyurl.com/2p93ejk7

https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/30/palate-palette-pallet/

On an omission

Selling 122.5 units of a video game console is a sure fire way to sustain a highly successful multinational company. You would hate to be the poor schmuck who only received half a console. When will they get the other half they need? 

How did this happen?

 How did this get out? Was it leaked, or published accidentally. As bad as the current Victorian government is, the Liberal Opposition cannot credibly present themselves as an alternative government if they release such sloppy policy documents as this. 

"Tickets, please."

Daniel Andrews, the current Premier of the Australian state of Victoria has a very high opinion of himself, as his government's grandiose election promises partially attest, such as building the biggest hospital in Australia, as reported in the pictured newspaper article, but not even he is capable of time travel, which is the only conceivable way to make retrospective election promises. 

I'm good at sport, so that makes up for inability to spell correctly

 

What is "Augus?"

Nyet

What is a "nissin?"

 

Available for immediate start?

Last respects

Sleeping on the job?

Since the opposition Liberal Party has no realistic chance of winning the Western Australia state election in March, extravagant election promises like this are a mere formality. I know of Western Australian Premier, Mark McGowan, but have no idea who this McGown chap is. Perhaps this post was written when the author was about to retire for the night. 

Brain fade

Can you spot the error?

Please resubmit

This is either a typographical error, or a portmanteau, created by combining the words shock and shlock. Are the ABC's lofty standards slipping?

Decluttering

As anybody who is familiar with medical jargon knows, an EN is an Enrolled Nurse. Some of them are medication endorsed, which means they are trained to administer medication to patients. I have never heard of a "Mediacation" endorsement.

Is this something along the same lines as a media detox, in which people take a break from using smart phones, tablets, computers, watching television, or playing video games? If so, that can only be a good thing. 

I'm a teapot

Tim Brooke Taylor (1940-2020)

Like anyone who had a misspent childhood spending too much television when they should have been outside developing motor skills, I was saddened to hear of the passing of Tim Brooke-Taylor, best known for his role in the long running British comedy series, The Goodies (1970-1982). Graeme Garden, his Goodies co-star, wrote an obituary for the Daily Mail.

No disrespect to the deceased, but I notice a typo in which the noun revue, defined asa light theatrical entertainment consisting of a series of short sketches, songs, and dances, typically dealing satirically with topical issues, is confused with the verb, review.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8231623/No-costume-ridiculous-nor-stunt-dangerous-Tim-Brooke-Taylor-says-GRAEME-GARDEN.html

Amphibian antics

Australia's largest retailer of home entertainment products, appliances, and electronics publishes a monthly magazine to advertise its products to customers. This is a picture from an article in the October issue about the Sega Mega Drive Mini, which has just been released.

As you can see here, previous well known video games released in October include Mortal Kombat (1992), Grand Theft Auto (1997), Manhunt (2003), The Witcher (2007), and Assassin's Creed III (2012).

I haven't heard of a game named Forgger. Perhaps it is similar to Frogger, in which you directed frogs safely across a busy road and hazardous river. I couldn't find any information about this game. Perhaps you play as a creator of illegal reproductions of documents, helping them to escape from the authorities to a country without extradition laws. 

What year is it?

I just finished reading Labor's Forgotten People: The Triumph of Identity Politics, by Michael Thompson. According to the blurb, Thompson argues that "the influence of identity politics on modern Labor's political agenda – assisted by a political class whose sole concern is power – poses an "existential threat to Labor. the warning signs are clear. Popular disaffection with the political class is increasing, and the Party's embrace of left-wing, progressive issues is sidelining core working class aspirations and grievances that used to be the focus of Labor politics." Labor's unexpected loss of the May 2019 federal election, not even anticipated in this book, arguably supports this thesis.

This book was very dry and academic, so I found it hard to engage with. Other reviewers have pointed out the number of typographical errors in it. Here, the author writes that Whitlam suffered a "crushing defeat as Opposition Leader in 1997." This actually happened in 1977, when in that year's federal election, when the Fraser government maintained its strong majority in the House of Representatives. The Liberal Party won 67 seats to the Labor Party’s 38, with 19 seats going to the National Country Party. This was Whitlam’s last election, as he resigned from his seat in Parliament on 31 July 1978.

What does that mean?

Nerdy James Bond fans the world over emitted squeals of excitement...or more likely scratched their chin and softly exclaimed, "hmm," with the official announcement of the next James Bond movie, No Time to Die. As you can see from this screen capture, whoever was responsible for writing the press release for the announcement made a boo boo by writing the movie's title as A Day to Die.  There are two possible explanations for this error. It was a typo, or A Day To Die was a title under consideration until No Time To Die was finally selected, and it was in a draft release or on the mind of the writer. 

Whatever the title means, the plot of the film, and the choice of font which looks like it belongs on the cover of a paperback novel from the 1970s, all will be revealed when the film is released in April 2020, when Daniel Craig makes his last appearance as James Bond.