Wild Reporting

It always pays to proof read before you publish... The following quotes all appeared in newspapers and magazines. So it's not just the doctors who get it wrong...

- From an article on stomach trouble:
"Doctors are beginning to accept that stomach ulcers are infectious. They are caused by a bug called Helicopter".

- From More!:
"Your chance of catching an STD during your period is greater, because the blood changes the PhD level in the vagina".

- The Sunday Times explanation for the extinction of the Dinosaurs:
"The extinction may well have occurred when a steroid hit the Earth.

- The Worksop Bugle reports one reader
"Recovered from a tuna of the kidney".

- Daily Mail:
"A transplant surgeon has called for a ban on 'kidneys-for-ale' operations".

- Local paper:
"On the sunday before Christmas, there will be a pot-luck supper in the church hall, followed by prayers and medication".

- From the South Wales Evening Post:
"Cash plea to aid dyslexic cildren"

- Q Magazine:
"In America, you can buy melatonin as a vitamin supplement. It is a hormone that your penile gland secretes when it gets dark".

- Health Education pamphlet on STDs:
"We don't know why, but it seems men don't get bacterial vaginosis".

- From the Health and Safety Practitioner:
"SORRY
We would like to apologise to readers for the late arrival of our March issue, which was entitled 'Flammable Materials: Controlling the Hazard!'.
The delay was caused by a fire at the printers".

- Advert from the British Medical Journal:
"FOR SALE: Real bone half-skeleton, in better condition than seller. £250".

- Notice in BBC canteen, Manchester:
"In the interests of Hygiene, please use tongues when picking up your Baked potatoes".

Friday, 25 August 2006

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