The Cub Reporter
Posted by Lipstick on October 27, 1997 at 16:58:03:

Once a cub reporter was requested to write an article for a local family news paper. The reporter decided to write about Mrs.Smith's car accident. So he wrote "Mrs.Smith met with a one car accident today and is in the hospital receiving lacerations in her breasts". The editor seeing this was furious and told the cub reporter that it was a family paper and words such as "Breasts" should not be used. The reporter was asked to redo the article. This time he wrote; "Mrs.Smith met in a one car accident, and is in hospital receiving lacerations in her (.)(.)"

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