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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Housekeeping / Mailbag Reader Letter Inspires Regret at Stranger Headquarters

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:10 AM

Good news! We got an actual, real letter in the actual, real mail! Let's just read what it says...

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For those who can't read print anymore thanks to rampant computer usage, here's a transcription:

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Dear Editor,

In reference to your Vol. 21, No. 18 issue—front page of Jan. 4-10, 2012, you spelled your own newspaper name wrong. It said The Starnger, instead of The Stranger. Since the main subject was on, "We Regret These Errors" I thought it should be corrected, too.

Sincerely yours,
[Basically Illegible Signature]

P.S. This is my 1st time looking at your paper.

The cover in question is posted on the left. Turns out, dear first-time reader, you were right. It does say The Starnger. How embarrassing for us! We regret the error. In addition, it is not our 129th annual regrets issue, as the cover claims. It was only our 9th annual regrets issue. We regret that error, too. Further, I did not write about the "Iowa Primaries" on our website, as the cover indicates. I wrote about the Iowa caucuses. There were no Iowa primaries. That is an error we regret, as well.

I could promise that we'll try to be more accurate in the coming year, but, really, what's the point? We all know the parade of fuckups never ends at the good ol' Starnger.

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Am I the only one who reads the signature as a perfectly legible "B. Murakami"?

Posted by gloomy gus on January 18, 2012 at 8:21 AM

Are the Ron Paul 2012 banner ads part of this gag as well?

Posted by BostonFontSnob on January 18, 2012 at 8:21 AM

There's a fiber in here somewhere.....

Posted by GlamB0t on January 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM

*joke

there's a *fiber joke* in here somewhere.

Sorry, the snow has me all antsy in my pantsy.

Posted by GlamB0t on January 18, 2012 at 8:30 AM

Irony
i·ro·ny/ˈīrənē/
Noun:
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Posted by Ken Mehlman on January 18, 2012 at 8:43 AM

God, every moment I've ever spent on this blog and the print editions of The Stranger before it were wasted. Wasted! When I could have been working. I knew there was a reason I wasn't rich yet.

Posted by Matt from Denver on January 18, 2012 at 8:52 AM

Everyone look at our horn.
We'll show you how we toot it too!

Posted by NotSean on January 18, 2012 at 9:02 AM

But such lovable fuckups. And is that Brissey under that street barrel? It looks similar to his picture under the desk.

Posted by Vince on January 18, 2012 at 9:07 AM

my wife still calls you the "strangler". i have given up on correcting her .

Posted by whatsbeckgottadowithit on January 18, 2012 at 9:15 AM

I enjoy how he (or she) had to initial the P.S., just so you know that the postscript is "official", and not, you know, added below the signature after the fact.

Posted by MLM on January 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM