Cooking Eggs on Horseback

Our weekly spot having fun with corrections from The New York Times.

For you, my friend, $40 to LaGuardia (11/9/06)

An article yesterday about a meeting at the French Mission of the five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany on a resolution to curb Iran’s nuclear program misstated how the American representative, Ambassador John R. Bolton, rushed off to his next destination after the meeting. Mr. Bolton’s spokesman, Richard A. Grenell, said Mr. Bolton walked. He did not get into a limousine.

a) .6 percent
b) .06 percent
d) .006 percent
d) none of the above (11/10/06)

An article and chart on Sunday in the special Education Life section, about the new essay portion of the SAT, misstated the percentage of students in the class of 2006 who were given a perfect score on the essay. It was .6 percent, not .006 percent. (Go to Article)

The side effect of term limits is that you can break the law without making it a campaign issue (11/11/06)

Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about election results in Ohio misstated the circumstances that created an open seat for governor. Gov. Bob Taft was prevented from seeking re-election because of term limits. He did not decide to leave office after pleading no contest to ethics violations last year.

Given the difficulty of cooking eggs on horseback, you'd think they'd catch this one (11/12/06)

A picture caption with the continuation of an art review in Weekend yesterday about “Velázquez,” at the National Gallery in London, was omitted and a photograph carried an erroneous caption in some copies. The painting at the upper right of a boy on a horse was “Baltasar Carlos on Horseback” (1634-35), not “Old Woman Cooking Eggs” (1618); the painting at the left with no caption was “Old Woman Cooking Eggs.”

“Shaken, not mixed with a stirrer thingy” (11/13/06)

An article last Sunday about new DVD box sets of James Bond movies misstated a line from “Goldfinger.” It is “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die,” not “No, Mr. Bond, I’m trying to kill you.”

Somewhere in Sydney, a young man named Billy is getting a lot of strange calls from Staten Island (11/13/06)

The Oct. 22 Journeys column about restaurants worth boarding a plane to visit gave an incorrect telephone number for Billy Kwong, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia. It is (61-2) 9332-3300. 

Do the octets have pianist envy? (11/13/06)

A jazz entry in the Listings pages of Weekend on Friday, about the pianist Andrew Hill’s group at Merkin Concert Hall tomorrow, misstated its size. It is a nonet, not an octet.

This correction sponsored by the CIA, again going to great pains to not exist (11/14/06)

An article in Business Day yesterday about plans by the Perot Systems Corporation to set up operations in Mexico referred imprecisely to the clients that the Guadalajara office will serve. While the Mexican operation will provide desk and engineering support to Perot clients in Europe and the United States, it will not do work for the United States government. (All work for federal agencies is done in the United States.)

-- COMPILED BY BRYAN JOINER

(Erasers from flickr.)