You can't even enjoy a newspaper these days without EWs

[Soulstealer]

Today we had bunch of firms coming for a career fair. It was hectic and chlostrophobic but I hope I got something out of it. Anyway afterwards I went to have lunch and picked up a copy of the student newspaper to unwind. Terrible plan now that I think about it, I should've gone with comics.

There was one op ed piece by a student who thought train penatlties were being unfair and targeting students. Her example being that she was caught riding past the station her ticket permitted her to do so but the monitors didn't care about how a fine was going to hit her budget. Then she went on about how nobody trusts your word anymore. I can't imagine why that would be. I mean why shouldn't she be entitled to special snow flake treatment and ride past her actual assigned stop just because it would make her sad to pay a fine? Why can't you mean train people take her word for it and be forgiving this once? I'm sure she'll never do it again.

I'm also expecting a phoenix egg in the mail and a leprechan to fart rainbows.

[mikoyan29]

That's not what I was expecting to read. I was expecting to read something along the lines of:

I'm sitting down to eat lunch and read the newspaper and then some guy comes along to ask if he can read the sports section. To which I reply, "No you may not". to which he says, "But you're not reading it now". to which I say, "No, I'm not but I will be shortly. And if you're that interested in reading the paper, there is a box outside where you can buy one."

[donruss]

Must be the Letters To The Editor section or as I like to call it, "The Funnies!"

[Soulstealer]

That's not what I was expecting to read. I was expecting to read something along the lines of:

I'm sitting down to eat lunch and read the newspaper and then some guy comes along to ask if he can read the sports section. To which I reply, "No you may not". to which he says, "But you're not reading it now". to which I say, "No, I'm not but I will be shortly. And if you're that interested in reading the paper, there is a box outside where you can buy one."

That's another story, which ends up with me not having the sports section anyway since I just throw it in the recycle bin after getting the newspaper. This is apparently a travesty unto Nuggan.

[Sightings Reporter]

Must be the Letters To The Editor section or as I like to call it, "The Funnies!"

I used to read them as part of my morning routine. Most of the time I just had to laugh at the crap that people had to say. I loved the misinformation spread via the letters. Of course if one were to write a letter to correct the misinformation, complete with references to support the correction, were never published.

[Primer]

I used to read them as part of my morning routine. Most of the time I just had to laugh at the crap that people had to say.

Heck, I used to read them just to find out the crap my DAD had to say!

[elsporko]

My favorite letter to the editor was one saying the comic Garfield is immorral because Garfield is never punished.

[Mnemjian]

I used to read them as part of my morning routine. Most of the time I just had to laugh at the crap that people had to say. I loved the misinformation spread via the letters. Of course if one were to write a letter to correct the misinformation, complete with references to support the correction, were never published.

But if they only published the sane letters then there would never be a reason to read them

My favorite letter to the editor was one saying the comic Garfield is immorral because Garfield is never punished.

It's strange that there's actually people around who feel the need to write a letter about a cartoon as inoffensive as Garfield...

[Green_Fairy]

I'm also expecting a phoenix egg in the mail and a leprechan to fart rainbows.

...made me think of this.

[bainsidhe]

Our school newspaper had a columnist who wrote about Yogi Bear being offensive because he wasn't clothed. These were the opinion pages, but were actual student journalists employed by the newspaper. This "journalist" had many a ridiculous article that sent myself and others into a seething rage. And then I realized that was the point. Every article he wrote made an effort to be contrary. No journalistic content or effort made to make an educated argument. He just pushed peoples' buttons. His so-called articles didn't bother me much after that.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Our school newspaper had a columnist who wrote about Yogi Bear being offensive because he wasn't clothed.

Well, he's wrong, then! Yogi Bear wears clothes! He's got a green tie and a really neat hat.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Well, he's wrong, then! Yogi Bear wears clothes! He's got a green tie and a really neat hat.

He also wears a white collar, which is obviously part of the one-piece bear suit he is wearing. It's Porky Pig and Donald Duck that don't wear pants.

[Soulstealer]

He also wears a white collar, which is obviously part of the one-piece bear suit he is wearing. It's Porky Pig and Donald Duck that don't wear pants.

Not to mention Bugs Bunny. I think Elmer Fudd and Marvin the Martian were the only ones 'decent'.

[Mnemjian]

Not to mention Bugs Bunny. I think Elmer Fudd and Marvin the Martian were the only ones 'decent'.

But didn't Marvin the Martian only wear a helmet, a tutu thingy and nothing else? Course, he was a Martian, maybe they're, ah, assembled differently

[lobo94]

Ah, Yogi. He was smarter than the average bear. Though it would have been funny to have the ranger bust him for indecent exposure.

Now, if Gilligan's Island had been real, I think eventually six castaways would have been rescued. "cut to the giant spider's cave, where the beastie is feasting on Gilligan's battered, bloody corpse"