Back in the '90s, The Washington Post's Sunday Style section had a feature called "The Ear No One Reads," wherein humorous little sentences were run in an upper corner of the section's front page. The Edge (The Oregonian's Tim Harrower-created humor column) last week dug up a website, Gopherdrool.com, that has archived the ears. Some of the favorites:

"This is the First Page of the Rest of Your Newspaper"

"What Are You Looking Up Here For?"

"When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Metro Section"

"How's My Editing? Call 202-334-4312"

"If U Cn Rd Ths Msj, Bg Dl"

"Help, I'm Trapped in the Typesetting Machine"

"Next Week, This Will Be Really Clever"

"Avoiding Clichés Like the Plague"

"Caution: Page Opens Out."

"Integrity First. We Are Not For Sale. Classifieds, Page F10."

"Fashion, Leisure and the Occasional Grisly Murder."

"We Have Fonts We Haven't Even Used Yet"

"This Week's Special Feature: Needlessly-Hyphenated Words."