Why We Don't Write Stories After Three Drinks

As QuickSpec noted last week, the lead on my story about the John Jay Awards referred to flying wine. I was all set to blame it on the editing process until I looked up my original version:

"The money flew as freely as the wine as Columbia College’s faculty, administration, and—especially—alumni elite turned out to fete five of the school’s most prestigious living graduates for the 29th Annual John Jay Awards dinner, held last night at Cipriani 42nd Street."

As entertaining as the image of a massive money-and-wine fight in Cipriani 42nd Street is, the correct word was obviously "flowed."
Whoops.