Early "bullshit"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/19/2014 09:22 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Randy Alexander
><strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does Scholtz's have an ad in the next issue? (Maybe with a correction or
> > apology?)
>
>The same ad (without the "Bull Shit") had appeared on February 28,
>then the altered ad appeared on March 2.  The ad returned to its
>February 28 form in issues printed on March 3 and March 5 through
>March 8.  I don't see that the newspaper ever issued a correction or
>apology or admitted an error with regard to the March 2 printing, so
>how "Bull Shit" ended up there remains a mystery.  In any event, it
>doesn't seem to have deterred Scholtz from advertising in the paper:
>new ads continued to appear through the spring.
>
>The complete text of the line that had been obscured by the offending
>words read:  "the season's choicest flowers and plants can always be
>found."

Seems to me like the typesetter went to florist Scholtz some time
before March 2 and did not find his flowers and plants the
choicest.  And so made an editorial comment.

Joel

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