When Wordplay Attacks
Here's an amusing lede from Wednesday's Brown Daily Herald piece on roller derbies:
"It's a Friday night in Providence, and techno music plays in the background as scantily clad girls are getting smashed. Nearby ..."
Get it? Smashed? 'Cause it's a roller derby? Well, somewhere at the Herald is a way-too-literal copy editor who didn't get the joke.
"Due to an editing error, an article in yesterday's Herald ('Providence Roller Derby part of sport's national revival,' Sept. 27) incorrectly stated that a Herald reporter witnessed attendees at a recent Providence Roller Derby event 'consume copious amounts of alcohol.' The Herald reporter did not witness such activity."
Join us next time, when the copy desk informs us there were no actual bears on the football field this weekend.
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