Going Dutch

Not so much a typo as a huge, huge gaffe.

I've awarded joint Gold Medals this week to both the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror for demonstrating equally clearly that they haven't a clue about British equestrianism.

Here's the front page of Wednesday's Express.

And now a page from the Mirror.

Notice anything odd about the Dressage team photos?

Like, for example, the orange collars? Or the blazer pocket designs? Even the faces of the three happy medal winners?

Not to mention the bronze medals. Surely you noticed the bronze medals?

Yes. The bronze medals as won by... the Netherlands team.

So, no red collars; no Team GB blazer designs; no Team GB members.

And not a gold medal in sight.

Nor, it seems, a half-decent (or sober perhaps?) Picture Editor.

Daily Express. Daily Mirror. Hang your heads in shame, the pair of you.

And, as my old Chemistry teacher, DH, used to say: Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the following.

The winning British Dressage team: Laura Bechtolsheimer, Carl Hester, and Charlotte Dujardin.

Are our has come

Thank you, John H, who has been typo spotting again on his travels.

No excuses accepted because the drinking doesn't even start for another ten days.

The bottom line

The Los Angeles Times published an article recently about retired Sheriff, Ralph Lamb.

Unfortunately, it did nothing to enhance Lamb's public persona or that of his orifice. Sorry, office.

The cheek of it.

Proofreaders at the paper need to be a little more anal methinks.

The Little Red Hen

Starbucks has done it again.

This advert appeared recently in the Sunday Times magazine.

A big thank you to Harriet G who took the time and trouble to scan it and send it in.

It's time Starbucks and me talked about copywriting and proofreading.

And if anyone at Starbucks needs some help understanding the headline...

Not I.

Take it, Easy

Sky TV sent this message to John H a couple of weeks ago.

Someone's obviously been talking, John.

Cool Blues name though.

'Easy' John H.