And Boy, is She Tired

[selchie]

Here's another tidbit I heard about on NPR, and thought of all the Brits and ex-Brits on the forum.

Queen 'lays 2,000 eggs a day'
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Typos are the bane of a journalist's life. No matter how many times an article is spellchecked, proof-read and copy-edited, you'll still find that where you meant to write 'Tony Blair today defended his actions over the Iraq conflict,' you actually wrote 'Tongy Blirfish tiddle infendip crzwwldgdch spong spong someone get me out of here.'

A round of applause, then, to Reuters, who manged to take the typo to new levels today, with an online article about the genetics of honey bees which claimed that Queen Elizabeth lays up to 2,000 eggs a day.

Somehow, every time they meant to refer to the queen bee, the phrase 'Queen Elizabeth' was substituted instead.

This led to the article informing us that 'Queen Elizabeth has 10 times the lifespan of workers and lays up to 2,000 eggs a day.'

This was after we were told that 'With its highly evolved social structure of tens of thousands of worker bees commanded by Queen Elizabeth, the honey bee genome could also improve the search for genes linked to social behaviour.'

Tragically, Reuters have now taken the article offline.

(Via the world's greatest newspaper mistake website, Regret The Error.)

[MotherBear]

This led to the article informing us that 'Queen Elizabeth has 10 times the lifespan of workers and lays up to 2,000 eggs a day.'

Well, she has to do something to justify that enormous salary she commands every year. ? ?;D