On Monday, we all had a few laughs at news editor Kim Jackson’s expense when the press started to roll and we saw a headline he had written for page B7:

NATO trikes kill at least 27 Afghan civilians.

“Kim,” I said, “has the despicable practice of using children in warfare reached a new low: Combat tricycles?”

“That’s right,” he said. “They send in the Big Wheels first to soften things up, then come the Radio Flyers.”

Hey, in fairness to Kim, nobody’s perfect, and there’s really nothing quite like the newspaper business for providing opportunities to prove that. And, as with Monday’s little misadventure, some of these pieces of proof can be quite humorous.

For more than two decades, I’ve been the curator of an ever-growing collection dubbed the Hall of Shame. Every time I see a really bad blunder in any paper, including ours, I clip it out and add it to the collection; on days when I need a little pick-me-up, I leaf through the Hall for a few quick laughs.

What follows are seven of the better Hall entries. Have fun.

Teching

1. ... especially teaching in the area of spelling, apparently.

pubic

2. Why you should never lean too heavily on spell check.

spelling

3. Why you should never lean too heavily on spell check, Part II.

Thurston

4. Why bogus "place-holder" headlines are a bad idea.

misake

5. And speaking of "misakes" ... .

grill

6. "I'll take an order of juveniles, with sauerkraut and onions, please."

condom

7. Clever or clueless? You be the judge.