The Register, a UK based online techie newspaper, has been covering Y2K in a very wry fashion, bordering on the cynical. Today, I read this article about Y2K which contains a quote from the UK newspaper "The Sun", advising it's readers to make 2 week preparations. (The Sun is the nearest UK equivelant to USA Today, i.e. an ubiquitous McPaper with a large readership and a lot of influence)

The thing is, the Sun didn't say this. I know that for sure, because I said it! I mailed The Register with a link to the USA Today Dos and Don'ts page and said (my bold) "To put this in a UK perspective, this would be like the Sun saying..."

And they misread this and printed my "quote", uncredited, as though it had appeared in the Sun. They didn't bother to check the source!

The lesson? Always, always check the source.

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999

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(EDITED) QUOTE:

So what about us Brits? The stiff upper is still there... "Tony's done his best ..."

Clearly a reference to the Blair Baby. :-)

(Very sorry, but hard to resist)

-- Risteard MacThomais (uachtaran@ireland.com), December 01, 1999.