{"product_id":"2940013359611","title":"DELICIOUSLY OFF BEAT MEEDIA MISSTEAKS MISHAPS \u0026 MESSIUPS","description":"DELICIOUSLY OFF BEAT MEEDIA MISSTEAKS, MISHAPS \u0026amp; MESSIUPSis a choice unexpurgated collection of hilarious sometimes off-color media goofs.\u003cbr\u003e    Everybody goofs at one time or another!  \u003cbr\u003e    But not everybody's mistakes are as conspicuous as those made by people in the media. What a person says sometimes comes out in print with an altogether different connotation than what was originally intended. \u003cbr\u003eUNDERSTANDING MATH\u003cbr\u003e    It appears there may be a serious problem understanding mathematics in South Carolina. According to the GREENVILLE NEWS: \"A few years ago, half the people lived on farms, but today only 50 percent do.\" \u003cbr\u003eSENSATIONAL SCIENTIFIC FINDING!\u003cbr\u003e    None of the above should really make any difference since the Boston Globe  reported: \"Science is convinced there is no intelligent life in our solar system.\"\u003cbr\u003eWOULD YOU CALL THIS GUY? \u003cbr\u003e    This one speaks for itself!  \"Let the men who know roofing goof [roof] your house,\" screamed the classified advertisement in the Albuquerque , New Mexico  Mid-City News.           \u003cbr\u003eMARVELOUS WEATHER REPORT!  \u003cbr\u003e    The  Associated Press ran an informative story on the predictions of United States Government weather forecasters.  Coming conditions were: \"In a fairly narrow strip tending from the Southwest through Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, the map showed there is a 50-50 chance that fall temperatures will average above or below normal.\"\u003cbr\u003eINGENIOUS CENSUS TAKING\u003cbr\u003e    Another international wire service, United Press International, comes on the scene with this strange news blurb from Waco, Texas.  It is in regard to census taking: \"Almost 11,000,000 persons live in Texas, an increase of about 11,420,000 since August of 1940.\u003cbr\u003eNOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!\u003cbr\u003e Here's a headline from the Idaho State Journal which explains how important an ordinary mattress can be in society: POCATELLO MATTRESS FACTORY PLAYS IMPORTANT ROLE IN CITY'S GROWTH.\u003cbr\u003e      It doesn’t take a genius to figure this one out! \u003cbr\u003e      WHAT A WONDERFUL BED!\u003cbr\u003e And here's a delightful \"For Sale\" classified found in one small weekly in the Joplin, Missouri Guardian: \"Four-Poster bed, 101 years old with springs.  Perfect for antique lover!  Please call.\"  \u003cbr\u003e     But who really wants an \"antique lover\"?   \u003cbr\u003e     Will this old bed also be sufficient for younger lovers as well?\u003cbr\u003eWHO NEEDS THIS!\u003cbr\u003e The Chicago Tribune ran this ad: \"SYPHILIS ERADICATION PROGRAM.  We need people who want immediate job involvement, unique and difficult assignments. This is not a desk job.\"  \u003cbr\u003e     They've got to be joking!\u003cbr\u003eWONDERFUL BENEFITS \u003cbr\u003e Great work if you can get it.  \u003cbr\u003e     Here’s how the classified advertisement appeared in the local Sherman Democrat in  one Texas community.: \"Help wanted -- manager for mini-warehouse, love [live] on premises, plus salary and bonus.\"  \u003cbr\u003e      Hopeful guys were said to have lined up for blocks in order to have a shot at getting this job!\u003cbr\u003eA UNIQUE POSITION \u003cbr\u003e      This New Jersey family was in dire need of a special kind of babysitter. \u003cbr\u003eHere's their classified as it appeared innthe Cape May County Herald:\"Help Wanted.  Middle-aged woman who enjoys boys by the hour; mostly at night.\"    \u003cbr\u003eA MOST UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY\u003cbr\u003e     Only a fellow with the necessary sexual orientation need apply for this particular job. The unique classified advertisement in a New York's Buffalo Evening News read: \"Man experienced for fairy [dairy] farm.  Call evenings only between 8 and 9\"\u003cbr\u003eWILL DO WHAT? \u003cbr\u003e    This advertisement must have been placed in the  Examiner Enterprise  by a thoroughly frustrated Barthesville, Oklahoma, employer: \"Part-full time.  I need three girls who will to replace three girls who won't.  Call Mr. Vermil, Room C.\" \u003cbr\u003e      This certainly sounds like a fellow who won't take no for an answer!\u003cbr\u003eWONDERFUL NEWS\u003cbr\u003e      Leave it to those know-it-all government bureaucrats.  \u003cbr\u003e      Here's one of their ridiculous announcements found in an Arizona's Maryvale Star: \"Due to the Federal Civil Rights Law, which states that persons may not be considered for employment because of sex, the difference between men and women is hereby abolished.\"\u003cbr\u003eLIKE TO DANCE?\u003cbr\u003e    This classified ad appeared under “Help Wanted”in the Dallas Times: \"Dancers Needed.  Exotic, topless or go-go.  Apply at Wild Hare and Tamlo Clubs.  Dallas Independent School District.  School Positions.  Secretaries, Clerks, Teachers Aides.\"  \u003cbr\u003e    These teachers can't help but be the most popular in the Lone Star state!\u003cbr\u003e    This is what DELICIOUSLY OFF BEAT MEEDIA MISSTEAKS, MISHAPS \u0026amp; MESSIUPS is all about.  It's a marvelous assortment of offbeat mishaps and colorful messups which were inadvertently made by the printed media.  They're all either typographical errors, peculiar sentence construction,","brand":"Freedom \u0026 Liberty Foundation Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145668247792,"sku":"2940013359611","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013359611","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}