Knob Lick, Missouri is a tiny unincorporated community in St. Francois County Missouri between Farmington and Fredericktown. The thing the town is best known for is Knob Lick Tower, an old Missouri Conservation Department fire-watch tower that teenagers like to climb late at night.
The Daily Journal is the primary newspaper in the area. This Daily Journal headline about the Knob Lick Cemetery made me sigh a deep sigh and shake my head at small town Missouri. The story itself made me sad for the woman whose body was found and the family she probably leaves behind.
I suppose the headline is effective in that I’m sharing it with people, but I’m sharing it for all of the wrong reasons. Thanks for making Southeast Missourians look like fools, Daily Journal.
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You know what my favorite is? It’s when you mock another’s writing and your post doing so is replete with typos & grammatical errors.
“made my sigh a deep sigh” should be made me sigh, not my sigh
“…but I’m sharing if for all the wrong reasons” should be sharing it, not sharing if.
“the woman who’s body was found” should be the woman whose body was found, not who’s
“Thanks for making Southeast Missouri look like fools” Southeast Missouri cannot look like fools. Perhaps you meant Southeastern Missouri people or something else.
Okay so maybe the headline was funny, but your post made me sigh a deep sigh and shake my head at small town girl. Small town people are not ignorant and I really wish you would quit trying to make it sound like we are.
Thank you, Captain Obvious!
Additionally, I love how the article goes from discussing the body straight to the shots fired incident without missing a beat.
Classic.
Mighty Oak,
I’ve spent the last 16 months trying to point out the great things about life in rural Missouri. No one and no place is perfect, and if I only point out the good things about our state, I’ll be paining a fluff-filled, insincere portrait of where we live. Besides, imperfections are some of my favorite things. It’s the imperfections that make us real.
I agree that I should have proofed this post before I published it, but my goal isn’t to write error-free posts. My goal is to push myself to write with frequency. I’m far from perfect, but that doesn’t mean that I should lower my expectations of professional journalists and editors. I work in communications, and you’ll rarely, if ever, find a typo in my work-related marketing or communications pieces.
I’m flattered that you care enough about my blog to take the time to help me make it better. I’ll be correcting the typos you pointed out immediately.
~smalltowngirl