"Thou shalt commit adultery" was one of the very first printed bloopers, and the tradition of falling pratfully in public print has continued undimmed. Surely the irrepressible Surly had a wispy hand in the creation of the following all-American galley gaffes (суперляпы):
1. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the president, hijacking an airline, and murdering a government poultry inspector.
2. Political insiders call them wedge issues—raw, emotional issues like social security for Democrats and capital punishment for Republicans.
3. The race also includes two of the five openly gay candidates running around the city (здесь обыгрываются 2 значения to run – 1. баллотироваться 2. бегать, носиться).
4. The pro-seat-belt camp maintains that seat belts would keep students, particularly smaller children like Marvin, from being thrown from their seats and escaping serious injury.
5. The department has implemented a computerized system for tracking down deadbeat parents (deadbeat – злостный неплательщик налогов, алиментов).
6. Vincent Charles, a 14-year Secret Service veteran, said the string of incidents had heightened security around the White House. "The White House has always attracted the mentally ill," he said.
7. Coach Mike Kyzyzewski asked some of his players over to the house for dinner one day last spring, then barbecued himself (получается, что он сам себя зажарил).
8. This is the third marriage of the groom. He has also been through World War II (то есть третий брак – жизненная катастрофа, соразмерная со Второй мировой войной).
9. After a Rastafarian (растаман) had run amok and amputated one of his mother's and both of his father's hands, a police source described their conditions as serious. “They will just have to keep their fingers crossed," he said.
10. The dead man was described as white, aged between 30 and 40, with an Irish accent.
11. From now on, police will pick up road-killed animals, not Public Works employees.
12. Smith was one of 10 Dallas businessmen robbed and brutally beaten with aluminum baseball bats from October to January.
13. During the scrimmage, Fresno State University basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.
14. In women twice as often as in men, death was the first sign that HIV was progressing, the researchers found.
15. An American teenager gives birth every 20 minutes.
16. Japanese tabloids are all atwitter that the wife of Crown Prince Naruhito, whose years-long search for a bride was exhaustively chronicled, might soon be a father.
17. Notice: I wish to thank anyone who so kindly assisted in my husband's death.
18. The Southeast Georgia Alzheimer's Chapter will present a cabaret, "A Night to Remember."
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