Here's a word of advice. If you're going to call a newspaper editor and complain because you think that they mispelled a word in their headline, you better make sure you're right or the internet will make you look like a fool.

Michael White, the editor of the Suffolk Times, got a call from a woman claiming that their headline had the wrong spelling of the word 'their.' The headline reads, 'Their place at the table,' but she insisted that 'their' is spelled T-H-I-E-R and she knows it because she went to college.

Dumbfounded, White handled the call patiently and hilariously because what else could he do?

Caller: 'I went to college and I was taught it was t-h-i-e-r...Google it and let me know. I can hold.

 

White: 'I have other stuff to do. You should Google it.'

 

Caller: 'Wow, okay, well, I already know I'm right...Where did you go to school?'

 

White: 'Columbia.'

 

Caller: 'Well if you went to Columbia, this shouldn't be a hard conversation.'

 

White: 'This is an IMPOSSIBLE conversation.'

 

The impossible conversation is thoroughly entertaining. The best part is if this woman Googles 'thier' now the first thing she's going to get is a link to her phone call.

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Internet FTW.

 

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