Thursday, July 20, 2006

Wha?

Yesterday morning I was waiting for Scooter to join me in our in-house Caribou Coffee outlet.

(Yes, we have our own, private Caribou Coffee store just a short elevator ride away from my desk. Sweet.)

Anyway, Caribou is slightly farther from Scott's cube than from mine, so I'm standing there with nothing to do but wait. CNN is on the flat-panel TV, and I'm watching some reporter do a stand-up from Lebanon about an Israeli bombing of a presumed Hezbollah target. The sound is off, so someone has considerately turned on the closed-captioning.

The reporter is talking, and the closed-captioning says something very much like:
... approximately 20 to 40 "people" were killed in the attack ...
Nice.