Posts Tagged ‘Corrections’

Jonathan Franzen Rushes Over To Guy On Subway Reading ‘The Corrections’ To Introduce Himself

NEW YORK—After noticing a fellow passenger reading his critically acclaimed 2001 novel The Corrections on an uptown-bound 1 train, sources reported author Jonathan Franzen excitedly rushed over to the reader to shake his hand and introduce himself. Tweet This Post

Corrections: Scratch And Do Not Sniff

Friday’s issue was scratchable but not sniffable. The Onion regrets the error. Tweet This Post

Corrections: Dream Kitchens

Last Sunday, this paper ran a story about dream kitchens. It should have been about the cyclical nature of the homelessness problem in America. The Onion regrets the error. Tweet This Post

Corrections: Wrong Wrong Wrong

As it turns out, a good 75 percent of the answers we printed to the Regents Integrated Algebra exam were incorrect. The Onion regrets the error. Tweet This Post

Corrections: Anonymous Source

Now that he’s dead, The Onion would like it to be known that every anonymous source ever quoted in this paper was this one guy, Steve Browne of Del Rio, TX. Tweet This Post

Corrections: Septapus

The Onion got all excited last week after we thought we discovered a septapus, but it turns out it was just a regular dumb octopus hiding one of its stupid tentacles. The Onion regrets the error. Tweet This Post

Corrections: Murder Suicide

In Wednesday’s article about the double shooting on Oakwood Avenue, the order of the crimes was accidentally reversed. It was murder, then suicide. The Onion regrets the error. Tweet This Post

Corrections: Six-Pack

In Tuesday’s issue, <i>The Onion</i> referred to a six-pack of soda as “half-a-duz metal fizz barrels roped together with plastic string.” <i>The Onion</i> regrets the error. Tweet This Post

Corrections: Puzzle

The misspelling of the word “hibiscus” in last Sunday’s Home & Garden section was not a mistake, but rather part of a sprawling logic puzzle that has been running in our newspaper for 30 weeks. The Onion will not apologize for challenging readers’ mental dexterity. Tweet This Post

Corrections: Deal

Wednesday’s issue contained 14 factual errors. Deal with it. Tweet This Post