If I were young and could start over with my collections, one thing I would keep are all the examples I see of "dummy" display text that goes to print. A favorite one I recall from the 1980s was in the Washington Post obituaries; the headline read something like "Slug Goes Here for the Dead Guy."
This recent example from the Guardian isn't nearly so bad, but I love it anyway:
Seeing oversights like this makes me happy in some unexplainable way. Schadenfreude, I suppose, but I'm much more sympathetic than that implies. I am. Really.
Maybe the Germans need to come up with a new word that means "commiserating while also seeing the humor in it."
Via Twitter user @jamiecraven.
Here's a past post of mine sharing a fine local example.
Friday, January 13, 2012
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Posted at 10:15 AM
Categories: Honey--Get Me Rewrite
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I, too, love finding these. They make me happy that it never happened to me, despite the fact that I wrote place-holder copy all the time.
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