What’s bigger than a bread box?

My Thanksgiving Day Tribune, that’s what.

And still there are people that fail to realize that the real job creators are the consumers.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Utah Headline.

Lawmaker drafts bill to help Utahns keep and eat roadkill

Golden Grahams®, Frankenberry® and Mueslix®.

Can you spot the mistake in this article from the Salt Lake Tribune yesterday?  You may have to click on it to make it large enough to read.

The article was written by Robert Kirby, a columnist for the paper.  He usually writes pretty funny stuff, so part of me wants to believe that the mistake is on purpose.  But after reading the entire article, that kind of humor just doesn’t seem to belong there.

Let me know what you think, ‘cause I can’t make up my mind whether he meant to make that pun or if it is a case of spellcheck going bezerk. (Click on “Read more” to see the error of their ways.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the gene pool.

.... I read this in the Salt Lake Tribune yesterday. A 21 year old guy comes out of his house to find someone has spray painted obsenities on his brand new Aveo. Now, instead of thinking "Hey, you really can't hurt the looks of something that ugly", he gets mad. His second mistake was not going straight to either the police or the parents of the three 12 year-olds he believes did it. Nope. Instead he gets his 16 year-old cousin, finds the three kids, puts them in a headlock and throws them in the back of the car. Then they take them to an auto bodyshop on Redwood Road and they call one of the kid's mothers. Demanding $1,000 for repairs in return for her kid.
.... After about an hour, the kids were returned safely and the duo was arrested. Not suprisingly, they've been charged with kidnapping. Duh.

Salt Lake Dribune

Got this from Alex today, it's a good rant about the 'premier' newspaper in our valley. Thought I'd post it here for all your enjoyment.

I just had to get this off my chest.I do hate the Salt Lake Tribune on a regular basis for their poor use of the English language (or their fluency in Utahn), their use of the blind for all editing work, their penchant for publishing rambling inconsistent reports of events so disjointed and incomplete (ever heard of the 7 items a journalist has to include in an article?????) that by the time I reach the third or forth paragraph I loose my will to live. Luckily this is the place where the Trib (or Drib as in Dribble) chooses to break a sentence or a word to go onto another page so I just give up, I could go on . . .

This is my latest beef. You know that guy Robert Murray that owns the Crandell Canyon Mine in Huntington, UT that looks like a taller Danny Divito? What ever you think of his rambling attack on global warming and the coal mining unions (delivered after he had been up for 24 hours) he does seem to care about the miners and their families. He apparently doesn't like the media as evidenced by his comment about the media being the source of the traffic jam in Huntingon Canyon and his call for the sheriff to quiet a reporter talking to another reporter during his press conference.

OK finally this is why I hate the Trib (or Drib) more. They have chosen to focus their reporting on Murray's poor record of mine maintenance as evidenced by the front page news today, Friday August 10,2007 rather than the progress or setbacks of the search for the 6 trapped miners. It seems hypocritical and childish all in one. The Tribune seems to be using their space in the public domain to fight with Murray. Also if they were to give equal time to the character of the person asking the question as well as the person in the spot light each question from the press should start with "Hi, my name is Woody Barkalot, I have been arrested for DUI 3 times, tell us about your poor record with mine safety". That would have the added benefit of stopping the news conference before they get to the questions that seem to be asked just so the reporter can hear themselves talk. You would never hear "Hi, I'm Zippy the Pinhead, I am 3 months behind on my mortgage, when you said 24 hours, did you mean a full day, a day and a night or was that a weekday or a weekend?I hate the Trib

Alex Rossi

November 26, 1939

From "The Salt Lake Tribune", November of 1939. One of my roommates was unpacking some stuff that had been packed with a bunch of Tribunes from this era, and he gave them to me. I've been reading through them, finding a lot of interesting and amusing stuff, that you will probably end up seeing here on these pages. Like, how much do you think a "new" 3 bedroom home would go for? With a 2 car garage, young fruit trees on 2/3 of an acre close to 39th So. on 20th East? Or how much was Grand Central charging for a lb of Top Sirloin? Package of Kellogg's Shredded Wheat? And how about a fully equipped brand new Pontiac Special "6" Torpedo? Just some of the fun, and totally useless, information I'll be bringing you in the future.