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What is the most offensive thing someone has ever asked you?

13.06.2025 09:35

What is the most offensive thing someone has ever asked you?

It was also before the favorite error I’ve seen in print, when the Wisconsin State Journal top story in big letters stated: “Thompson’s Penis a Sword!” - That was Gov. Tommy Thompson’s veto “pen”, without the space after it. That one made the late-night talk shows!

This was long before bosses had to be careful about offending people, making remarks that could be taken out of context or might offend, or any of that.

The first daily newspaper where I worked in Wisconsin was in Beaver Dam. One time the editor showed me the copy I had written for a story. That must have been when a teacher got in trouble for demonstrating condom usage on cucumbers and bananas - that was a story USA Today carried nationally that I had written.

Ive been pretending to be okay and acting as normal as possible, but Im actually completely heartbroken after a recent breakup. Its painful and really affecting me, to the point where I cant concentrate at work, Ive lost my appetite, I cant sleep, and It feels as if my whole world has been turned upside down. I loved him so much. He said so many cruel things to me and it made me realize he must not have loved me the way I loved him, or he wouldnt have said such horrible things. How do I handle the heartbreak and why cant I accept that he didnt love me and just forget about him?

The editor had the word masturbate highlighted, as I probably spelled it with an ‘e’ rather than ‘u’, as I just did now. He said, “Dan, you of all people should know how to spell masturbate!”

As an aside, that was long before, at a better newspaper, when I was laying out the front page, I teased the weather page with “partly sunny, chance of flowers”, which was my favorite error I’ve made.