David Powell
I guess a lot of people read the news section Top 6 column every issue because for the second week in a row someone found a typo in it. In Greg Beatty’s Top 6 column “Cowboys And Indians”, we had a sentence that read, in part, “making a mountains out of mole hills”. That, friends, is a classic editing error. I meant to change “making a mountain out of a molehill” to “making mountains out of molehills”, because fewer words is better, but I neglected to delete the first “a”. Oh well. Landscape architect and mandolin ninja David Powell wins $10 and a typo Wiener T-shirt. He’ll spend the money on wine at La Bodega.
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