TIL that once upon a time, the Dayton Daily News accidentally swapped the captions for The Far Side and Dennis the Menace.
There are a couple newspaper clippings I"ve lost over the years that I thought were great.
The first was a Cleveland Plain Dealer front page picture of a life flight helicopter dropping off an injured person at Cleveland’s Metro General Hospital. The name of the hospital was written on the side of the helicopter, but the open sliding door of the helicopter made it read “Metro Genital”
The other was from one of the Houston papers, which had a section titled “Things are not always what they seem”. It contained a bunch of things that appeared to be typical optical illusions, but on closer examination weren’t illusions at all. So line A didn’t just appear to be longer than line B. It was longer. Etc. I wondered at the time how many people noticed vs just accepting that they all were illusions.
I feel judged
