New Yorker screws up! URMA has contest! [Mary Beth] wins prize(s)!

WE HAVE A WINNER. For providing the correct answer (missing word on
page 53), Mary Beth will receive TWO (count 'em) fabulous prizes:

1) A Commie self-adhesive mustache and beard set

B) A "Diagnose Your Neurosis" Wheel o' Wisdom

Congratulations to Mary Beth. If you get hit by a bread truck tomorrow, at least you will have died happy. (As for Mary Beth's "that" versus "than" guess: the New Yorker is technically in the right here; they're reporting the quote as it was stated. That's my excuse, anyway. It's Monday morning and I'm too groggy to delve into the several thousand words that Fowler's Modern English Usage devotes to "that" and "than.") Regardless, huzzah for Mary Beth. Two prizes for a job well done.

(Confidential to J. Worley in Lexington, KY: next time, send a bribe.)

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.

Wednesday coffee break: probably bad news

An easy mistake to make. Lots more at probablybadnews.com