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From one of my favorite websites, Regret the Error, some funny newspaper corrections that made me laugh. The last one's the best, found that via my favorite sports columnist, Bill Simmons.

-Ha! Freudian
LA Times: Mexico City newspaper: An article in Wednesday's Calendar section about an English-language newspaper in Mexico City referred to the many U.S. ex-patriots who live there. It should have said expatriates.

-She insisted on making this clear
New Statesman: In her column "A good year for the F-word" (15 January 2007), Kira Cochrane suggested that the writer Nirpal Dhaliwal had appeared on Newsnight Review last year wearing an "ill-advised white satin bomber jacket". This was, in fact, a case of mistaken identity. We apologise for this error, and we are happy to make clear that Dhaliwal has never appeared on Newsnight Review, nor ever owned such a garment.

-So substitute chocolate
Arizona Daily Star A column on Page 20 of the Feb. 8 Foothills Star included a recipe for dog food containing onion. According to Michael Lent, president of the Arizona Veterinary Medical Association, "onions are considered to be potentially toxic" to dogs and should not be fed to them in any amount. The recipe also said garlic is an option. Lent said garlic is also potentially toxic to dogs.

-Not enough real news
THE Kalgoorlie Miner apologises for being late yesterday after a flat tyre delayed the delivery truck by three hours.
Driver Anthony Tonkin, who let Merredin at 1.25am, punctured a tyre about 75km west of Coolgardie.
Workers from Kalgoorlie's Beaurepaires branch responded and fitted a new tyre within 20 minutes of arriving at the scene.
"It was just one of those things you can't help," Mr Tonkin said.
"Hopefully it won't happen again for a long, long time."

-We like asserting things
Financial Times: In an article on February 7 on "green crime" laws, we wrongly asserted that the illegal dumping of waste was not a criminal offence in Spain. In fact it is a crime under Spanish criminal law.

-Compounding the mistake
Roy rapidly becoming the prince of Portland: Information in this article, originally published February 25, 2007, was corrected February 27, 2007. A previous version of this story contained an editing error. A quote from Maurice Lucas, a Portland Trail Blazers assistant coach, comparing Blazers rookie Brandon Roy to former NBA great Walt Frazier, whose nickname is Clyde (after Clyde Barrow of "Bonnie and Clyde" fame). An editing error inserted (Drexler) after Clyde, creating the erroneous impression that Lucas also was comparing Roy to another NBA great, Clyde Drexler.

'Corrected' online article: Portland assistant coach Dean Demopoulos said the 6-foot-6 Roy is a longer Dennis Johnson.

"A bigger Walt Frazier," fellow assistant Maurice Lucas said. "He'll mess with your head and then — boom! — explode, twist, hang and use either hand. A big Clyde [Barrow]."

Photo of Bradon Roy via ESPN.com. Photo of Warren Beatty via the BBC.