Saturday, March 06, 2010

The Poo Of The City To Be Divided

When you search for articles at newspaperarchive.com they return a bunch of results with little snippets of various articles on the newspaper page.

Because they were scanning mostly bad looking newspaper copies, sometimes it's just gibberish. But sometimes they're pretty good, but since the samples are automatically truncated, they come out sounding funny. Like this one:

"The poo of the city to be divided among the several churches." Speaking for the churches, we don't want the poo of the city, thank you very much!

But the actual article tells the true story:

"A collection was taken up for the poor of the city, to be divided among the several churches represented at the meeting."

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