I started my new job at the Congressional Publications Office.
Republicans may have to recall all State of the Union tickets because they say "Uniom" not "Union," per two Dem aides. pic.twitter.com/FosSnznIHp
— Laura Barrón-López (@lbarronlopez) January 29, 2018
Opine threat!
Baud
To be fair, “uniom” is how it’s spelled in Russian.
?BillinGlendaleCA
To quote the Secretary of Energy, “Oops”.
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: Now do it in Cyrillic so someone complains.
Wallis Lane
E pluribus uniom: Out of many, one moron.
John Revolta
Is this true? Or am I reading The Oniom?
Mary G
Republicans hate unions, so Freudian slip.
Sometimes the sheer incompetence bothers me more than the slow-motion coup that’s going on.
Adam L Silverman
@John Revolta: The Shallot. It’s to The Onion like Twitter is to a blog.
RobertDSC-iPhone 6
So who is going to throw a shoe at the Orange Atrocity when he gets up to speak?
Crashman06
@Mary G: Because the extreme incompetence implies that the coup shouldn’t be possible. Yet here we are.
kdaug
I am not RON HOWARD, but I don’t think “uniom” is a word.
Adam L Silverman
Speaking of oops!
schrodingers_cat
You know one language and it is sad when you don’t know it well.
Duane
What’s the odds on Trump saying “uniom” during his speech. Adam, can you get hold of a teleprompter?
Skepticat
Not to mention that there should be a capital H in house, it should be Visitors’ Gallery (misplaced apostrophe) and p.m., and the th in 115th should not be superscript.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: Actually I know several. At one point I was also non native fluent in Hebrew, functional in Arabic, and could speak a bit of Spanish and French.
Adam L Silverman
@Duane: As in do I have hands and do they work so I could actually grab one? Yes.
Major Major Major Major
Didn’t some of the Clinton commemorative impeachment gear say “untied states senate”?
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Stupid auto correct
Mike in NC
State of the Unisom? Trump’s dumbass bloviating will definitely put a lot of people to sleep.
For many months there was a Thai restaurant near my office in NoVA that had “Crap Meat” listed on the lunch menu, even after we pointed it out to them.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
I’d have to see that in Cyrillic to be sure.
chris
So they hate unions so much they don’t even recognise the word?
Ruviana
@Adam L Silverman: Maybe more like The Scallion.
Mike J
@Skepticat: What are the rules on superscripts?
Baud
@Mike in NC:
I can’t believe they spelled “Crap Meal” wrong.
Baud
@Mike J: Never talk about superscripts.
Miss Bianca
@Mike in NC:
Maybe they just considered it truth in advertising.
@Baud: LOL! Thank God I wasn’t holding my beer!
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack (phone): I have someone for that.
schrodingers_cat
@Ruviana: Or chives?@Adam L Silverman: Impressive.
Miss Bianca
@?BillinGlendaleCA: So much wimming!
delk
The ‘9:00 P.M.’ crashing the lower border is sloppy. Intro to Graphic Design 101 failure.
Sab
@Adam L Silverman: I love this image. I also like shallots: mild-mannered onions)
Duane
@Adam L Silverman: If you can sabotage the tickets, you can sabotage the speech. Please?
Adam L Silverman
@schrodingers_cat: Haven’t had much reason to use any of them for a long time. I can introduce myself, ask how people are, order off a menu, and that’s about it these days. Definitely perishable skills.
magurakurin
anyone know why Wilmer is stepping on the Democratic Party response to the SOTU with his own? what a dick.
Hungry Joe
Beating a dead horse dept.: The NY Times’ lead photos of the Australian Open winners were 1) Caroline Wozniacki tossing her racket in the air after the final point, and 2) Roger Federer kissing the winner’s trophy. Dozens (hundreds?) of the best sports photogs on the planet, filing thousands of explosive, action-filled shots, and photo editors go with those. Every time.
And Donald J. Trump is still President. I tell you, it’s just one damn thing after another.
Baud
@magurakurin: Link? First I heard of it.
Miss Bianca
@magurakurin: I think you just answered your own question.
Leto
I would’ve been more surprised if it wasn’t fucked up; with the amount of typo’s that make it through every publically released document they serve up, can we really be shocked that they’d screw this up too? Just par for the course.
Skepticat
@Mike J: They simply aren’t proper with ordinal numbers.
Adam L Silverman
@Duane: I think you missed the joke. I was making fun of myself with this post.
Sab
If we are in fantasyland, I am praying for Godzilla to step on the POTUS.
Aleta
Well maybe they’ll be worth something after T is ridden out of town on a rail that’s covered in blazing tar sands oil. So I advise the lucky people to keep the tickets and stay home.
Skepticat
@delk: Just surprising they didn’t use Comic Sans or University Roman for the font.
Mike in NC
@Skepticat: Down the street from us there is a sign out in front of the “Resident’s Center”. Nobody has ever seen fit to fix it.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Damn, did you see former Rep. Nan Hayworth on Hardball?! Apparently she’s the new designated Trump whisperer, but even in that role she was completely over the top. She tried to attribute part of Trump’s success in bringing down black unemployment (note: not intended to be a true statement) to the passing of “tax reform.” Even the other Republican lite panelist did a spit-take, and I thought Matthews was going to have a stroke.
Then she went for the two-point conversion in the “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment by memorializing the anniversary of the Challenger disaster—which, unfortunately, was yesterday, not today. Nobody called her on that.
She has jumped onto the punchable-faces Top 40 with a bullet.
Aleta
@Adam L Silverman: And nicely done, and it’s welcome humor after a day of news that makes one weep.
Mnemosyne
This shit really grates on me because it’s just more evidence of how they don’t take their jobs seriously. They think that running a country of 320 million people is a goddamned joke.
Plus I do a lot of copyediting/proofreading so this stuff drives me up a wall anyway, but these assholes do it over and over and over again and they don’t care enough to get better at it.
Duane
@Adam L Silverman: I went for a laugh. Might have missed;-)
delk
@Skepticat: or Papyrus
Mnemosyne
@Aleta:
And feathers. We have to decide on the most appropriate type of feathers.
Pinacacci
OK way off t but was looking for an open thread and what the hell is this.
This article is the first I’ve heard about Nikki Haley being slut-shamed and I am an internet junkie. What the hell NYT? I now believe there really is something seriously wrong over there. This is such pure propaganda, accusing people of behavior that as far as I can tell hasn’t happened yet.
ETA context, they are writing as if Nikki Haley is the mysterious current affair the orange boil is having according to the Wolff book. this is infuriating
Adam L Silverman
@Duane: I got it.
wmd
Covfefe anyone?
Mnemosyne
@Pinacacci:
An Anne Lamott quote comes to mind:
Citizen Alan
@magurakurin:
Your second sentence answers to your first question.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: I mute her. She has been balls out fucking crazy for a few years now. She also gets louder the crazier her talking point gets.
Susan Del Percio is also mildly R-rwnj but nothing even close to Nanners.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Mike in NC: There’s an Italian restaurant near my son that has a “glutton free” menu.
Aleta
@delk: Also they sliced off the bottom lines:
Admission fee of $550 to be paid in cash at the door.
(Add $450 for folding chair.)
Ninedragonspot
In Russia, Uniom states you.
GxB
@Mike in NC:
[Jangling Guitar Chords]
I fear…
The secrets that you keep…
When your serving up Crap Meat!
chris
@Baud: Wilmer to refudiate SOTU.
cthulhu
Last year’s ticket looks much more professional overall.
Mike J
@Skepticat: It’s not improper, it depends on house style. Word defaults to superscripting them.
If you’re filing with a court you should never use them, because the courts have said they don’t want them. I honestly don’t care that much about style, but the grammar errors really bother me. Especially from a White House run by racists. You’d think they would be able to get basic English right. If they can’t, I know plenty of immigrants who can copy edit better than anybody there.
Peale
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): concerned about their patrons, customers are limited to 1 strand of fettuccini and skim milk al fredo sauce.
Baud
WaPo
Miss Bianca
@Mnemosyne: I’m with you. I’m not all the way past “point and laugh” stage, but I do find myself stung to senseless rage over little shit like that, shit that just so clearly says, “we don’t give a shyt.”
hueyplong
Price goes from $35 to $350 if you want your name spelled correctly.
Baud
@chris: Thanks. I don’t realize he did it last year.
Miss Bianca
@Baud: Every time I think this clown can’t go lower, I find myself forced to think again.
@hueyplong: Oh, well-play’d!
Peale
@hueyplong: it probably was supposed to be $350 but no one proofread the email.
Baud
@Miss Bianca: Pennywise is shaking his head.
PIGL
We don’t get nearly enough new music since mistermix hung it up. Since this is an open thread, let me introduce Ms. Sarah Jane Scouten, from Bowen Island on Canada’s misty yet majestic west coast. I saw her play on a Boxing Day gig at the Wise Hall, for those who know EastVan.
I hope you like Show Pony as much as I do.
Gravenstone
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): I liked the Chinese take out joint near here that featured a ‘spicy Human sauce’ in one dish.
Baud
@hueyplong:
He’ll collect the money and not do the name thing.
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: Nothing could go wrong with this plan.
Gravenstone
@Baud: I’m surprised he didn’t force the networks to carry that ticker of avarice.
Miss Bianca
@Baud: Pennywise thinks Donald Trump gives clowns a bad name.
mad citizen
@Skepticat: Excellent attention to detail! As well as the comment pointing out the crowding of the time with the box margin. The incompetence is brutal!
Also, I liked how the Juicers pointed out the delicious timing of the leaked story the other day while the trump team was sleeping in europe. I’m hoping some delicious story will be leaked tomorrow so he isn’t able to dominate the news cycle. I’m so tired of these people complaining when politics intrudes on the precious “place event name here–grammys”. Nikki Haley doesn’t like politics with her Grammys. Has she ever listened to any lyrics of any decently political song? I’m sorry, but as long as the toddler president tries to dominate all media, the rest of us will fight back.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Silverman the Scrivener.
Pinacacci
@Mnemosyne: I have no brief for Nikki Haley, she’s not been a credit to her species (human), but that story is a ridiculously obvious attempt to stir up a controversy where none exists. If I’ve misread, apologies!
Mike J
BTW, anybody who listens/watches/reads BBC on American news and think they’re getting one of the best news orgs in the world, check this hed:
“FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quits ahead of agency review”
Fox could have run that.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
What the everloving blue-eyed fuck? Please tell me that’s not real. Please.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
I have seen Hayworth only a few times and didn’t have the cone-of-silence macro set up.
I was mildly surprised to see Del Percio identified as a “Republican consultant,” because she seems way too sane for the current crop. Haven’t seen her much, always assumed she was “political reporter for [insert stodgy publication here].”
SiubhanDuinne
@Gravenstone:
By an obvious train of thought: what ever happened to the BJ commenter who used the nym “Freshly ground black people”?
Ruckus
@magurakurin:
You answered your own question.
Like drumpf, he has to insure that everyone knows exactly who and what he is.
Manyakitty
@West of the Rockies (been a while): He would prefer not to.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
This is as good as it gets, they aren’t capable of getting better.
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: And yet it is one of the best news organizations in the world.
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
I’m with you. She’s another one who, like her boss, can dish it out, but can’t take it.
debbie
@Baud:
The dopes are sure to fall for that! I wonder how many of my brothers will pony up for that?
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Manyakitty:
It was a reference I knew many BJers would get.
Great story.
Mike J
@Major Major Major Major: It really is, but their US coverage has sucked as long as I’ve followed them, and that’s a long time. It always made me wonder if their other coverage was just as bad but I didn’t have the background to know it.
Aleta
Something else is off about the tickets (besides “Visitor’s Gallery” and the font they got off the internet): the ticket shown is not even cut along its black border on the left and bottom. So who the fuck did they pay to print and cut the tickets? Or didn’t they know the Obama employees weren’t making them this year? So they ran them out “in-house” at someone’s desk on the day they were needed.
Also, very very weird is the filigree, for want of a better word, before and especially after the “House of Reps.” No idea what that curled up off-line snail shell thing is. Or the shaded part that’s … god, the longer I look at it, the stronger the flulike symptoms.
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: if tech and science journalism is anything like all other journalism I’m pretty sure Sturgeon’s Law applies, but you play with the cards you’re dealt when evaluating relative things like “best”.
p.a.
@Mike in NC: @Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Vietnamese Pho near me served ‘Concrete Soup’ (Congee). Chinese rest., blue awning, white lettering: “We Delivery”. Didn’t know if it meant free delivery or we deliver until they got blue paint and covered the y.
The dangers of non native English speakers doing business over the phone probably.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Made me laugh out loud.
WaterGirl
@Baud:
Is that even legal?????
Aleta
@Mnemosyne: Guilty of depraved heart indifference to accuracy, truth and checking their work.
Aleta
@Baud: please, you joke?
The Lodger
@Aleta: I think that’s the same logo they use on all House of Reps visitor passes, complete with the lowercase “h”. It looks like the ones we got when we visited the Capitol in spring 2016. Ugly as hell but authentic.
Jay S
@Aleta: The post article has a link to the campaign.
Jay S
@The Lodger: These tickets are reportedly a product of the office of the Sergeant at Arms of the House.
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
Read the second paragraph above. Donors will “see their name displayed during a live streaming of the address on his campaign website.”
feathers
Le sigh. This is what happens when someone is used to using Powerpoint or other Microsoft Office software, and is bumped up to something like InDesign, which doesn’t have spell check. It is also what happens when you have one person doing the graphic design and the printing. I don’t have good eyes for this sort of thing when it’s my work. It always irked me when a co-worker (in the same job) griped about looking something like this over.
Also, I’m guessing either an intern who said they knew how to use the software or someone who thinks that having to create tickets is very beneath them.
The Midnight Lurker
I don’t know what you people are complaining about. These tickets are the best, the greatest, and clearly the product of a good and stable brain.
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl:
Legal, illegal, it seems nobody cares any more.
Increased sanctions against Russia were passed by large bipartisan majorities in both Houses (the vote was 98-2 in the Senate [for extra credit, name the two]) and the Trump admin says “nah, we don’t feel like implementing this.” And that’s that. The Executive branch can now simply ignore the Legislative.
The Constitution had a good run. Oh, well.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic:
That’s kinda how I am feeling today. My eyes are tired from being wide-eyed with disbelief at so many things in the news today. It’s appalling.
Jay S
@feathers:
Creative incompetence to the rescue! Or a coded cry for help.
Felanius Kootea
@SiubhanDuinne: That would be me – it was based on a funny story someone posted about a typo in a recipe. “Salt and freshly ground black pepper” morphed into “salt and freshly ground black people.” I used that as my BJ nym for a little while but, not surprisingly, people who hadn’t heard the original story took it the wrong way. Not the smartest move on my part.
Omnes Omnibus
@Felanius Kootea: Hey, it beats a lot of mine around here.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: Thanks. So I. M. Peach could make some donations?
Aleta
@Jay S: Thanks! Also, does it seem like someone may be passing the buck to the Sgt of A? Since he’s been in office since 2012 and the tickets were OK til now?
Bill Arnold
@Steeplejack:
I was very happy to see her defeated, then re-defeated, by Patrick Maloney. Her husband Scott Hayworth is (still is according to wikipedia) president of a very large medical group (Mount Kisco medical group), one of those organizations that often had (maybe still has) Fox News playing in their many waiting room lobbies. (A relative used them because they had no real choice.)
Waynski
@Gravenstone:
Is it Soylent Green? Yummy!
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
Yes. But even better choices upstairs.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: One of them rhymes with Pand Raul. Don’t recall who the other one was.
Gin & Tonic
@Adam L Silverman: Oh, come on, put on your thinking cap. Casting that vote would require going against the orthodoxy of the two-party system, would require an independent voice.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: The other rhymes with Like Mee? Meve Stanchin? Ced Truz? Sernie Banders?
To circle back, Paul’s vote is not surprising given his dad’s longstanding ties to the Russians.
Gin & Tonic
@Adam L Silverman: Good thing I allowed you four guesses, since you needed them.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: I honestly didn’t remember and I’m too tired to look it up right now.
Bill Arnold
@Adam L Silverman:
You are a wicked person, of the best sort.
(Back to reading about … teleprompters.)
Gin & Tonic
@Adam L Silverman: You must be, since I seem to be sailing these broad, broad hints well over your head.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: I’ve figured it out by now. The hint in 119 was the give away.
Bill Arnold
@Steeplejack:
Sweet, missed that, thanks.
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: I believe she’s Felonious Kootena now. But that was a great nym.
Tehanu
@Peale:
Well, al fredo sauce is the most appropriate for the Dump Administration, since (h/t: Simon Maloy on Twitter, 5/26/17) they’re all Fredos.
Gerald Parks
@Wallis Lane:
Haaaaaahhhaaa that’s a good one!!!!
Vhh
@Steeplejack (phone): union in russian is soyuz союз
Marina
In Bradbury’s short story ‘A Sound of Thunder’ the first signs that everything’s gone to hell are misspellings on a campaign poster.
O/T, but the NYT has a front-page story complaining about the lack of decorum in having celebrities–specifically HRC– reading from ‘Fire and Fury’. Reporter states polls showed public disapproval. Commenter points out Neilson ratings only track TV watchers, and many (e.g., me) now watch TV shows on other devices. NYT mired in the past. Also, fuck decorum.