Florida woman, perfecting the 5-year shave

[Awsi Dooger]

And taking advantage of inept newsroom editing. This from the lead political article of the Miami Herald on Sunday. Very subtle, but I'm sure her friends caught it and it will inspire some justified ribbing:

http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/395197.html

"The result: embittered activists who feel pickpocketed by the candidates and betrayed by their own party. ''This will be the first election I will not vote in since I turned 18 in 1972. What's the point?'' asked Maryann Baetz, 49, of Pembroke Pines."

[Radio_Lady]

1. For the math challenged... she's really 54 if she was 18 in 1972? Zat it?

Then we have to deal with what month she was born in... there's a stretch between January and November.

That 1972 primary election was the first one I covered on the radio for WIOD-AM, Miami.

[Awsi Dooger]

2. Yeah, zat's it

Just something I noticed today, and passed around among a handful of people in a waiting room. Only one caught it.

My dad aces Jeopardy every night but something like that sneaks past him. He tried 5 or 6 times. At one point he said, "knowing you it has to be numbers related...," but he still whiffed.

Right, she could have turned 18 late in '72, and therefore still 53 today.

[Radio_Lady]

3. Boy, that's probably the only math problem I've ever gotten RIGHT!

I used to get those ones that start with, "A boy's mother gave him $(dollars) and told him to go to the post office and get XXX number of stamps..." Then I would feel my stomach turn into a big knot and I would invariably start to tremble!

When I entered college, I was on the 90th percentile of entering freshmen in science, English, and social studies.

But my math figure was in the 30s. The person who interviewed me put this very succinctly:

"Ellen's lack of achievement in math is correlated with her lack of interest in the subject."

That's quite true. For me, the invention of the hand-held calculator was one of the greatest achievements in the world!

Thanks for your post!

Cordially,

Radio Lady in Oregon