14 January 2006

So last night -- as I was watching figure skating with my partner -- I got a blackberry message that an airstrike in Pakistan MIGHT have killed Al Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Interesting. The note was sent from our star Pentagon correspondent who said it was possibly a CIA predator drone armed with "HELL FRIES" (missiles) that took aim at the compound. We're all adults. We're all news professionals. We know this is a breaking news situation where information is coming fast and furious. It was obviously a typo. But our industrious 22 year-old desk assistant felt compelled to send out another message to point out that the missiles were indeed HELL FIRES, not HELL FRIES. We all had a good laugh about it this morning at work...("do you want hell fries with that shake?")