Local Follies

The editing (or lack thereof) in my local newspaper frequently provides a source of amusement. Today, in the section where readers, frequently angry and misinformed ones, phone in and vent, I read, "[Residents' comments] about the fact that they won't be downtown because the animals are back and then they say I mean the [college] students. What is the purpose of {the paper's} publishing this. . . only to inspire inflammatory remarks and rebuttal of a VISCOUS nature?"

Don't you just hate those thick and sticky rebuttals? I don't believe that even this offended student, drunk or sober and barely literate, meant "viscous."