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Mightierthanthesword.
And twice as phallic.
Reminds me of a Saturday Night Live skit where four people had tee shirts with the initial letters of Friendship Understanding Caring and Kindness.
To the front of the line, Fred!!
Nooooooooo!
And screams at you.
That is definitely a win!
definitely a WIN
One has been won for the Gipper.
The opposite of “fail” is “succeed” or “pass”. The opposite of “failure” is “success”. Can we please stop slaughtering the Engish, and even American, language and just think for a second before regurgitating?
Before you go ranting on about slaughtering languages make sure your name is correct. It’s NINCOMPOOP not NIMCOMPOOP. Also congratulations on being able to use a Thesaurus. I am just not sure why you would throw out some antonyms before trying to insult someone or possibly specific people. On another note could you please define the difference between the English language and American language?
Actually, he’s right in that linguists identify American English as different from (British) English.
But you are right in mocking his lame post.
you are a fail and so is your Engish.
>Nimcompoop:
FAIL, in photos just like the one above has become a popular term on the internet. What this entire website is founded upon. Its internet specific counterpart is WIN. As in FTW or for The Win.
It was not intended as a proper “English” response. You can tell by kankywompous’ lack of capitalization or punctuation.
In other words, relax dude.
As for the image itself…I agree with kanky. This is definitely a win for the senior staff. It HAD to be intentional since they all left. With print media losing their foothold on the news it seems to me a last dying whimper of a gag that no one will read.
It is ironic that it takes the internet to draw the public’s attention to their prank.
And i suppose you think that we should still be using thee and thou, and gay should be happy? screw the evolution of the english language. idiot.
People who criticizes others peoples language forgets that words is just arbitrary symbols for abstract ideas and that “correct usage” is something that is challenged and changed all the time. Don’t bes a snobs. Great ideas can be expressed in spite of all the standards for “correctness”, and we should never let those hold us back.
really? this coming from someone who can’t spell english and thinks “American” is a language?
Agreed!
Glad you think so! Done purposefully — i wish the other senior farwells were displayed which spelled c u n t they’ve done it for years!
that is a WIN!
Mancum?..
Penis + Miss Mancum that has got to be a win.
Wait, I think it says “Mike”, rather.
It actually says Mike Mangum not mancum, that is his name.
Another fake fail on failblog, surprise, surprise. *rolleyes*
Actually, it’s not fake. It’s from the University of Utah’s paper – the staff did it on purpose as a senior prank. In fact, the inside of the paper spelled c-u-n-t to go along with that page…
what happens if you roll the pages up in two groups and put one inside the other? do you get a small local paper?
Yeah man it’s actually real. I can take a picture of me holding the paper if you’d like that. I have it sitting on my desk and it’s epic haha.
Mancum? Really? And I heard such great thing about this site
No the big words The first letter in each collum all together spell P E N I S
And I thought it was about the āsenior staffā
)
Mancum is just an extra.
Just said it
The fail isn’t hard to spot if you have an IQ greater than or equal to 100.3. Or is that in whole numbers? Then again an EQ would show how much attached one is to penises…wait GODAMN BOOZE
it isn’t a fail!
How in the world, did you spot this?!
That’s some staff!
nice column, but a week ending
Yes granny, but this is not hard news.
I’m sure they’ll have a stiff fine.
something tells me the columnists aren’t the only people laid off…. this looks like the layout & production staff is also saying farewell!
What a c0ck up.
Was this from the Oregonian, or maybe the Statesman Journal they have so much dodgey stuff going with their paper?
Pretty sure this is from the University of Utah’s paper, The Daily Utah Chronicle. That’s about the usual quality . . .
Yeah, pretty sure you’re right.
Yes, it was The Daily Utah Chronicle and it was an intentional end of year gag.
I suddenly have a craving for a lollipop…
I don’t want to know.
Surely this is win? They’re “farewell” columns, so someone’s trying to go out in style
Yep — the thanklessly slaving proofreader who never got a shot to move up to cub reporter ..
I agree: more of a win, and most likely intentional.
Agreed!
I’m think long-suffering editor who’s just reached their retirement day…
Or maybe just a disgruntled guy who hopes it’ll slip under the chief editor’s radar and no-one reading will complain… like James May’s famous(?) one in an old Autocar supplement where a whole gripey sentence about the dullness of the booklet was spelt out across about thirty columns and 16 pages…
I would like to see a link to this.
I did actually post one earlier, but it seems to have disappeared – you get to it by going to James May’s wikipedia entry anyway.
LOL, my first thought after seeing the photo was “didn’t James May do something like this?” Thanks for the heads up where to find it again!
I found all of the columns online and linked to them.
Having worked on a college newspaper, I’d say it’s a safe bet the designer did this on purpose and was hoping it would get by the eyes of the higher ups, which it obviously did. My tip off is that the columnists are not organized in alphabetical order by name, nor is the editor in chief (the paper’s top dog) the first columnist.
The person make does not realize only the reader lol =D
bunch of idiots Ā¬Ā¬
The person make, be the person win!!1!
That had to have been done on purpose.
I agree.
PENIS.
keep looking buddy, you’ll find it someday
That’s not a fail, that’s a WIN!
I argee, if they are getting laid off, then that is a win! In this case the Pen is mighter than the sword! or would that be ‘Penis Mighter?’
Your selling penis mightyers?! i’ll take a dozen!
I’ll take famous titties for 600.
Dolly Parton!
I agree with monkeyninja and vbc this is definitely a win good job
this is a WIN!!!!
WIN!!!!
That’s how us in the newspaper business go out in style.
I’m guessing this is the student paper of the University of Utah at Salt Lake City. My take is definitely done on purpose…and definitely a win.
I guess the guy doing the layout was also being fired…
Wow. A triple fail. ^^
1. āsenior staffā (eww)
2. Mr. Mancum
3. P.E.N.I.S.
Then again, thatās just too good to be true. Which means itās probably āshoppedā¦
I need to do a number 2!
in the sex toilet
*Gets the scoop*
what black and white and red all over?
my penis
I hope that ‘lil grannycatflap’ has a matching tophat.
I sometimes poke it through the bottom of my popcorn box to surprise my date at the movies, does that count?
So…. this was your idea then?
*Clickie*
my popcorn box is my date?
I could have saved so much money! 
You’re supposed to eat your date out, not up.
But, what if your date is a swinger?
Mmmm buttery!
Looks like intentionally made… but PENIS + Mancum = total fail..
It’s a win, it’s made on purpose!
Ah …. the mental connection is finally made. Farewell columns = paper is shutting down = come on, now.
Hate to piss on your cheerios, but it’s Mike Mangum – 5 seconds on google found his site
There’s absolutely no way that isn’t intentional, so I’d call this a WIN.
Obviously it was on purpose, so itās win, not fail.
Dirk!
Actually, scratch that: I found the articles themselves and the names are all real names.
Apparently it’s Mike Mangum, which isn’t much better.
ok i think this is a layout win because they are leaving the news paper,kinday like a senior prank
Wouldn’t this be a Farewell Win?
They had to have planned this.
THAT IS WIIIIN!
On PURPOSE!!!!
definitely a win, and a bit of a wake-up call to their readers….. at least the ones that were able to notice it
Of course it was on purpose, layout just doesn’t “happen” like that. It’s Mike Mangum, not Mancum. “Senior staff” refers to the editors and managers on staff, not the fact that they’re seniors at the university. And last, the paper was voted the second-best newspaper in the nation by the Society of Professional Journalists, so it definitely was a joke and not the norm.
That is a complete win! lol….
PENIS!!!!
definitely a win
Y’know since these are farewell columns of a paper that’s closing its doors, I’m gonna go with WIN!
āŖā«Sick and weak from my condition
This lust, this vampiric addiction
To her alone in full submission
None betterā«āŖ
Am I seeing it wrong or is the guy in the E column named Ty Cobb?
If this isn’t shopped, it’s certainly intentional. Read the middle sub-heading: “Photo work: Put it all in perspective.”
Oh, and Mancum/Magnum, or whatever, there’s also a guy named Peterson, which, in a juvenile way is also naughty.
This isn’t a fail, it’s a win. They are being laid off from work, but before they go PENIS!
They’re not being laid off, it’s a university newspaper, they’re all graduating and giving a farewell column. And yes, that is Ty Cobb, it’s his real name, he’ll occasionally wear his Detroit Tigers jersey. This isn’t photo-shopped, it’s the actual print edition of the paper.
That’s awesome.
THIS IS A WIN!!!!!
You don’t think they planned this?
Yeah, I’m sure they planned this. Having read this paper for years, it’s pretty typical of what they try to do now and then. That’s why its unofficial name is “The Utah Crapicle.”
THIS IS ALL A WIN YOU GUYS THEY ARE LEAVING SOON LOL
Deffo on purpose. As a former newspaper journalist I recall an editor who got the sack who laid out the “news in brief” section so it spelled “F##k [the name of his boss/rival]“. First edition came out before they spotted it and, being back in the old days of hot metal type, the best they could do was jiggle it round so the second edition came out with an anagram of the comment. I’ve got a photocopy of the first and actual copy of the second.
This is def. a win!!
Wow. Honestly, about every edition of the “Chrony” is a layout fail. It just is. All I have wanted for Christmas for the past two years is a student newspaper that didn’t suck.
Yep, it was deliberate.
100% intentional and should’ve been a WIN! This is from the “Daily Utah Chronicle” at the University of Utah.
Is it really a fail if it’s on purpose? And don’t tell me it wasn’t purposely, ’cause nobody fails as much as to do that by accident!
What is not posted here? The other side of this layout with four other columns where the four first letters spelled C * N T. Replace the * with the first letter of umbrella.
they did tht on perpose
WIN!!!
Clearly a prank on the part of all the writers. You can’t see it in the photo but the column on the left begins: “Puppies, pomegranates and puddlesāthese are few of my favorite things. Just kidding, but no, seriously.” Obviously she was tasked with writing the “P” column and thought it would be funny to insert the letter less seamlessly than the others.
The page to the left spells out C*NT maybe that will show up on here to. and the N column of this is mangum not mancum
Nicely done!
This is a WIN FOR SURE!!
These people lost their jobs because the paper was shutting down. Their farewell gift.
Very nice!
Paper is not shutting down. It is university student paper and they are graduating… the fact that the other page (not posted here) spells out C*NT. it was a bad move for them because now they can never get a job in journalism if thats what they were wanting. some of them majored in other subjects but a lot of them just kissed their journalist dreams good bye… = FAIL!
The other page of the article (and I’m not kidding here – I tried to submit it to failblog and apparently it was too risque) but it actually spelled out c*nt. I have no idea why they didn’t get in trouble for that, and I’m even more surprised they didn’t try to hold them up from graduating. But I’m definitely saving that copy of the paper. Oh – and it wasn’t ever released on their online newspaper, just the paper copy.
Again, probably just a bunch of people pissed with the staff cuts. The newspaper execs really deserve it.
It wasn’t staff cuts. This is a student newspaper from the University of Utah. They’re graduating seniors.
EPIC WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They had it wrong this is WIN!!!!
I’d settle for a WTF
This is definitely a WIN!
Come on people. Really? TOTAL BS. There is no Mike Mancum – try googling him – and TY COBB photo editor??? if i had balls I’d be laughing them off.
hell yes, this is my school’s paper.
Didn’t know we were in 7th grade.
Max Hall was right. You stay classy, Chrony!
Its Mangum not Mancum. Google his name. He has a photo website even. And Ty Cobb is his name to. Its on the newspapers website. Definitely a WIN
oh you know this was done on purpose (:
this is totally a WIN, not a FAIL
This is no fail, this is WIN
someone should unfail that one
HAHHAAAHAHAHAHAHA
What is so “funny” about it?
I say WIN!
super win!
The funny thing is this was a two page spread and the other page was the same but spelled out C-U-N-T
Well, now try and tell me that wasn’t intentional.
I really hope that was intentional. A final “F* you”!
Ha ha ha ha ha, this is great. No, my name is definitely Mangum with the G. Kinda looks off in a photo of the newspaper. But thats funny. I didn’t think they were gonna just lay it out straight across, I thought it was gonna be scattered and anagram style where you have to piece it together. Good times. Goodbye Chrony, thou shalt be missed.
FTW!
wow, that’s just having a situation where EVERYTHING fallS into the EXACT right place, especially having the Mancum thing go along with this LMAO
oh LOL just realized it was Mangum, but did they have to use uppercase like that, with a low bridge on the G to make it look like a C? Oh hell yeah they did!
What’s the problem? Is a penis such a tabu in – ah – Dubai? Katar? London?
You got problems!
Wow, the university newspaper actually did something interesting. Better than any of the other drivel I”ve read in that particular sad excuse for college journalism.
Apparently the outgoing senior staff at the Chronicle have been doing this for a decade, but no one ever noticed. In previous years they spelled:
1999 – BALLS
2000 – HATEU
2001 – TIPSY
2002 – DRUNK
2003 – B*TCH
2004 – JUGS
2005 – C*M
2006 – TW*T
2007 – SKEET
2008 – BONER
2009 – C*M
OMG! It’s the āDaily Utah Chronicleā! I read that every day. Epic win for The Chronicle.
looks like a win to me.
http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-3544-chronicle-staff-investigated-for-penis-gag.html
They’re in trouble for it, even though the staff does this every year.
Ha! I knew it! There was no possible way that could be an accident. Those higher-ups are overreacting; I think it was hella brilliant!
The paper giving them the boot has failed, but the layout is a win, right?
the ladies are tomboy/
LoL
Fail or Win? Did the paper plan this?
lol this is win
That was supposed to be “special”….and also since when is an accurate anatomical term like ‘penis’ considered vulgar. Like I said….repressed.
This is called a subliminal message
In this same paper they also spelled out c*nt. There are speculations that they went too far with that one. Their diplomas are being withheld pending further investigation.
No, U.
: )
How is this not an EPIC WIN? this was not only intentional, but absolutely hillarious.
Looks like a WIN for Oregon =)
Oregon? where did you get that from? Its from the UofU in Utah.
The did it on purpose! This was an epic senior prank
Oh how I love Utah!
This is from a Utah School that did it on purpose and they were all in big trouble… it was a prank they pulled on the students and was in big big trouble. I’m from the area this was in and it was all over the news.
Subliminal message wins…