Thursday, August 20, 2009

New Yorker screws up! URMA has contest! You win prize!


It's a dark, dark day in magazine-land, and somewhere, Eustace Tilley is rending his morning coat and striped trousers (if not rolling over in his grave): there is a copy-editing mistake in the latest issue of the New Yorker (Aug. 24, 2009).

The first URMAn to find the mistake wins a fabulous* prize. Here are the official rules:

1. Yes, this is a real contest.
2. The first person to find the error and email it to the URMAlist (listing the page number, the sentence, and the error) wins.
3. Endeavors people are ineligible, but for all I know, they might be bribed to give you clues.

*Prize may or may not be fabulous.


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