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KAL
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KAL asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

Tragic Typos should love this headline...what do you think?

"Corpus Christians can drink from the tap once again"

I laughed so hard when I saw this headline in the newspaper this morning that I spewed Coke all over my monitor! Does that mean that atheists and followers of another religion still need to boil their water to be safe?

The headline appeared in the Corpus Christi Caller Times. The city was placed under mandatory "water boiling" orders on Tuesday following the discovery of fecal eColi bacteria in the water supply. This headline announced the lifting of that ban yesterday evening.

I know what they were trying to say, but didn't anyone realize the way it would look at first glance? LOL

Update:

Anonymous...I KNOW that! I've just never seen it written that way...why not "Corpus Christi residents" given the possible double meaning.

Aph004, I don't think it says anything about Christians...but it does make the person that wrote it look pretty silly...of course, that's par for the course for the CC Caller Times!

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  • Dave P
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    LOL. Now I'm wondering if the paper refers to believers as Corpus Christian christians?

    P.S. No - just checked - "Corpus Christian christians" is currently a googlenope.

  • FallenAngel©
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I live in a small town- our newspaper is often the brunt of jokes as well because the editorial staff can never think ahead to how their headlines sound when read aloud

    Source(s): ♥ I totally understand what you mean!
  • robert
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Theres a city in Texas called Corpus Christi.

    If you're from Corpus Christ, you're a Corpus Christian

    Source(s): Hope that helps.
  • vici
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    maybe they dont want the corpus Christians to be safe anymore, they are wanting the people with sense IE;atheists safe they are looking after us

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I nearly wet myself. Sh!t, i'll have to keep boiling. Im an Atheist.

    Hey, then again, it might be a joke on the Christians - drink it as is & you'll go to hell. One million less people in the world.

  • Herb E
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    All God's people have a guardian Angel, that is always watching over them. If you you should take precautions, but if you don't ,its ok because your Angel will see tat nothing happens to you, you just have the faith.

  • Gma Joan
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    It appears that the reporter is either a Christian who had a Freudian slip or deliberately wrote that tongue in cheek.

  • Christian Sinner
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Tragic Tycos would be pleased I am sure.

    EDIT: I misspelled his name, sorry.

    Tragic Tacos*

  • Georges Guy
    1 decade ago

    lol, the water system must keep tabs on people's religions

  • Ryan, Atheati Magus
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    haha my friend lives there....oh **** i should probably check up with him....he is a corpus christian

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