These are two complaints delivered to the Richmond Times-Dispatch as part of their “Your 2 Cents” program. I really like the Your 2 Cents thing, because it proves that you can’t make this stuff up.
Why does your paper persist in burying Heloise’s Household Hints in the classified section? The only reason I can think of is that you are hoping that while searching for it, women will end up browsing the ads and find all sorts of items that they want to purchase that they hadn’t previously realized they needed.
You end up wasting space in other parts of the paper advertising where it can be found. Why don’t you just move it to the Flair section where it would fit right in? — Betty Brand, Weems
Just because I would ban dangerous dogs and prohibit noisy dogs in residential areas does not mean I suggest any connection between said dogs and said groups. That is because I don’t put the value of dogs (pit bulls or otherwise) up on a par with the value of humans. I wonder if she does. How did that get past the Your 2 Cents editors?
Showcasing a few highly controlled pit bulls at a county fair is no more a remedy of their potential threats than showcasing firearms is a remedy for gun crime. And, I’d find it interesting to see who’d attempt to tout pit bulls in more progressive areas that now ban them, like Miami, Indianapolis, Denver, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany. — Lyman Flinn, Henrico
(Note: This post is old, taken from my spike file, but still amusing enough to share.)
There’s a reason we look forward to the 2-cents column [or as we call it in our household “the Idiot Parade”]: knowing there are people of that mental caliber in our community makes us feel so much smarter in contrast.
And remember how much dumber and nastier it was before they required people to put their names to their postings? [any implication regarding Internet sites where people post their opinions and responses using anonymous screen names is purely in the mind of the reader, of course…]