SIDELINES…
GRAUNIAD
To celebrate 200 years of publication, the Guardian, famed for its misprints, reprinted some of its most celebrated ones. These included: “We misspelled the word misspelled twice, as mispelled, in the Corrections and clarifications column on September 26”, and a review mentioning the band “Frightened Rabbi”, corrected the next day to “[That] should have been… Frightened Rabbit”. A similar loss of a letter rendered a Miles Davis album “Sketches of Pain” instead of “Spain” and created the digestive complaint “irritable bowl syndrome”. Guardian, 12 May 2021.
STUCK SPANIEL
When a 93-year-old woman from Matlock, Derbyshire, reported her Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Toby, missing after not seeing him for two days, PC Tammy Wood visited the house to take a statement. While there, she dropped something, and when she bent down to pick it up, saw Toby’s face peering out from under a recliner.
