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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by daychilde@lemmy.world to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world

There's a little town just across the James River from me named Surry. Apparently the city council is considering borrowing millions of dollars to build a new YMCA. One of the residents has written a letter to the local newspaper:

Can Surry afford a Y?

All I can think: Well, if they can't, they're going to be Surr from now on…

And now you understand. I can't tell anyone else about this anywhere. It's a news article that doesn't allow comments. It came up in my news feed because I mod /r/NewportNews and this is news outside the city I can't post there. I could post to c/Virginia, I guess, but I suspect they wouldn't appreciate it. So you all are my only hope. :)

edit: y'all made my day. <3

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[-] Danika7@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)
  • Can Surry afford a Y? . . .

No Surr, it cannot. Surry had to borrow the Y for now.

[-] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago

Take my up vote, da childe!

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

hey hey HEY I can afford a y.

Oh, maybe you can't. I'm so sorr. :)

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

The jokes must get out there, no matter what. You are providing a good service to the world!

[-] spacegoat@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago
[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

But not Nyce :)

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 22 points 22 hours ago
[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago

I'm Surr you think so…

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 22 hours ago

They're all gonna be Surry over there.

[-] UNY0N@feddit.org 26 points 1 day ago

This is of course the right place to post this! Nice.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

I was a little worried, actually, but i'm so glad it worked out :)

[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I heard this town was also considering a city council consisting of its most eccentric and outlandish citizens. It’d be called “Surry with the Fringe on Top.”

[-] Octavio@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago

Oh, no. That project was put on hold. The environmental impact study determined that it would cause Chicks and Ducks and Geese to scurry.

[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

I’m glad someone got the joke.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)
[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago
[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

So does my wife, poor thing, who has to put up with me telling her all the silly funny puns I make on the internet that often get downvoted (and very rarely get upvoted like this post lol)

[-] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 11 points 1 day ago

This is a perfect fit.

[-] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 7 points 1 day ago

This story reminds me of an infamous gaff on the front page of a local newspaper back in 1994… back when i used to hock newspapers on a street corner. Had a lot of laughs that day.

The St. Augustine Record printed a famous, accidental front-page typo that read "100 Years of Pubic Service" instead of Public Service

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

haha, paper man's nightmare that. My wife's father worked for the Miami Herald for decades, although as a.... can't think of the term, reporter but not news, like life stories, public (pubic?) interest stuff. lol.

My mom worked for her local paper for a few years on the linotype machine, which I will now prove by saying ETOIN SHRDLU :)

[-] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 2 points 18 hours ago

Yah the editor in chief issued a public apology but it was talk of the town for quite a while lol. I'm sure the article is on microfiche somewhere lol.
oh wow that's interesting...yah lots of funny stories from hanging around the old print machines...when they worked properly lol.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Maybe he should have issued a pubic apology.

[-] BuckFutter@timeyak.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Hahaha Don’t think anyone wanted to see or here that

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 22 hours ago

can't think of the term, reporter but not news, like life stories, public (pubic?) interest stuff.

I've seen that in the Lifestyles section or Society Pages.

[-] 64bithero@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I don’t know if it’s my lack of brain cells left or not but I cackled loudly at this

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