The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that an Okalona woman was upset to discover that her hardboiled egg contained what she saw was a human face. This has put her off her feed.
Dot Kimble is scared of eggs, now that she’s seen a face on one.
Until a couple of Fridays ago, she loved eggs. “I was bad to eat boiled eggs and crackers,” she said.
And that’s how she was feeling June 26 when she boiled two eggs for her mid-morning snack. After enjoying the first egg, she went for the second one.
“I cracked it and didn’t have time to peel it” before the fully boiled egg shot out of the shell, Kimble said last week.
When she looked at the egg, she saw two dimples toward one end and a long, thin, uneven indentation near the other end – to Kimble, two eyes and a mouth, a sight she can’t get over.
“It scared me so bad,” she said. How bad? “I won’t be eating any more eggs. Maybe later, but not for now.”
She has pickled the odd egg, shown it to the locals and now plans to offer it for sale on – where else? – eBay.
h/t Sailor.
I ask: Is there a more redneck sentence construction than ones that begin “I was bad to [verb]“?
Think you have a winner there NMC.
Looks like Jack Skellington. Run, Sandy Claws! Run!
LOL meanwhile
Once, I peeled a hard boiled egg and it looked just like the Virgin Mary. That was before ebay, so I ate it.
all i can think of right now. http://toptvcops.com/07ec8050.jpg
Thank you for this, NMC! I’m glad I live in the land of rich narratives—no matter how weird!
lmao
What came first? The chicken or the egg?
The chicken being the newspaper. The egg being the – shall I say it – stupid story.
Newspapers publishing these type stories .. and the reason so many newspapers are going down .. related? Me thinks so.
The redneck? A different story altogether.
“The chicken being the newspaper. The egg being the – shall I say it – stupid story.
Newspapers publishing these type stories .. and the reason so many newspapers are going down .. related? Me thinks so.”
I fully disagree. I loved this page two story yesterday.
The story fully reflects the region the newspaper is published in. From the woman’s name to her Cooper Tire t-shirt to her being spooked by indentions on a hard-boiled egg, Dot Kimble is a reflection of the readership base of the Daily Journal. Yesterday, when folks in Ecru and Golden and Dumas consumed this story, they identified with Dot Kimble. This story reminded me of where I live -north Mississippi- in a way that gave me pleasure.
The Daily Journal is the only Mississippi newspaper that had a significant rise in circulation last year.
Bad, bad choices are made over there at the Daily Journal… the death of Norman Mailer has yet to be reported and the when Thomas Friedman last spoke on the Ole Miss campus, his column in the New York Times that day was about how Toyota was changing business practices, and that that could come back to haunt them. Instead of the Daily Journal interviewing him about that column and the local Toyota concern, the newspaper ignored that he was at Ole Miss at all (several days later, editor Lloyd Gray did mention it in passing in his column).
They have improved mightily in the last year. For too long, they had a horrible spelling problem (during the 2008 Elvis Presley festival, they managed to miss-spell Tupelo, Tupeloan and Presley) and often a headline indicated the writer did not read or understand the story (or had too bad a case of the cutes).
One need look no further than the special section published concerning the retirement of Chancellor Khayat to see that the Daily Journal does have the ability to practice excellent journalism…they just don’t always do the job.
The face-on-the-egg story was excellent, and I loved that she was quoted saying “I was bad to…”
Now, I wait to see how they treat Sunday’s 30th anniversary of DISCO SUCKS night at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Former Ole Miss Rebel Don Kessinger was with the White Sox and his fearful family was caught in the chaos that night but managed to escape unscathed. It’s a story that would trigger memory in most sports readers and also has a local angle. I’m hoping this story makes it in place of Associated Press filler material.
The key for newspapers now is simple: provide quality content not available –or in a form not available– elsewhere.
I read the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal yesterday, along with several other newspapers, and they all dropped the ball on the face/egg story, save The Daily Journal.
And yesterday, many Daily Journal subscribers and casual readers enjoyed that story.
Here’s something I found out after doing the story: Her nickname is http://www.dot.com. I’m not making that up, either.
MTonos
Correction on nickname as it appeared in earlier comment: it’s just “double-u, double-u, double-u dot com”
mt
And finally, the Cooper Tire shirt was borrowed from a friend; Dot doesn’t work. Now you know the rest of the story.
mt
Does the face look like Mork?
Bruno ist wunderbar! Weg besser als Krebs! Bruno ist sehr lustig! – DLM & DLS
Ich weiß nicht!