12.13.2006

But he's still dead.

Because of an editing error, an obituary on Sunday about Sid Raymond, a comic actor, rendered one of his jokes incorrectly. It was about a son who sends a prostitute to his widowed father, still a self-proclaimed ladies’ man in his 90s. The prostitute tells the father that she is his birthday present and promises to give him “super sex” (not that she promises to give him whatever he’d like.) The father replies, “I’ll take the soup.”

From the December 13 New York Times Corrections page, which is devoted to clearing things sorta up. More or less.

1 comment:

...e... said...

christ, poor sid. the guy dies and they mangle his joke beyond all recognition immediately,if not sooner. how soon they forget, huh?

"you can have anything you want"
"i'll take the soup."

oh, yeah, a real kneeslapper, huh? jeez.