The lost art of proofreading

The (anonymized) caption to a photo in the student paper here, depicting a young woman taking part in a recent blood drive:

DONER: A $SCHOOL_NAME student gives blood.

Leaving aside the fact that it’s a banal and self-evident caption which adds nothing to the story or the photo, that’s sort of an unfortunte spelling error in the first word. I mean, I’m as big a fan of don’t even know ‘er jokes as the next guy, but still…

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