Mangled Closed Captions

You can probably guess that I rely on closed captions when I watch TV. For the most part, the quality is pretty good. Occasionally, however, they get mangled by the captioner.  Sometimes what I get is amusing, like last summer when WCCO's Jason DeRusha covered the iPhone release: the captions repeatedly told me that Apple's new product was the eye phone. Or the time during an anchor toss, it said that we were going to a report from Jennifer DeRusha.

Other times, the goofs are confusing: last week, the captions during a WCCO report kept referring to a University of Minneapolis.

But sometimes, they just make you say "What the hell?" Take this morning: I happened to have the PBS show "America's Test Kitchen" on while reading the comics and RSS feeds. They were doing a review of hot cocoa mixes, and the captions indicated that some of the mixes included powdered water. I haven't seen powdered water on the shelves at REI yet, but I would think that would be pretty useful for a back country hiking trip.