On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:57 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Trevor Tymchuk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> A forehead-slapping blunder on the DVD and Blu-ray packaging for Atlas
>> Shrugged: Part 1 — based on Ayn Rand's 1957 novel advocating "rational
>> self-interest" — has resulted in a call for corrections to 100,000
>> copies.
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/11/13/atlas-shrugged-dvd.html
>
> Roger Ebert was geeking out over this the other day - it is kind of funny.
>
> It still is not clear to me what the source of this kind of mistake is - did
> someone give the printer the wrong copy, or is it just a printer mistake? It
> seems too on the nose to be a random error - maybe a prank?

Probably the first scenario. Anybody proofreading the copy would
accept that "self-sacrifice" was spelled correctly, but if they're not
familiar with Rand, they wouldn't know that it's the wrong word.

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