I just saw a cheesy locally produced TV show in which the word “inexpensive” was misspelled “inexpenisve” in a graphic.
It made my day.
I once worked at a homebuilder and was typing up a notice to the homeowners in one of our developments. It was about the new fences that would be built in the community and I went into great detail - they would be six feet high, stained natural brown, etc.
I sent them out to 40 houses before I realized that I left the “n” out of “fences”. Oops.:eek:
That’s okay, my (expletive) co-worker sent out an enormous report to the entire organization with the Public Works Department misspelled without its ‘b’…
This is one of the permanent examples in my famous “spellcheck is evil” speech.
God, I’m a dork. WITH a B. WITHOUT an ‘L’.
PUBIC WORKS
Also forgot to mention, said phrase appeared throughout the report, spelled that way every single time.
OK, all these stories are good, but Miss Gretchen’s made me laugh the hardest.
I’m just picturing homeowners reading that 6 foot tall feces stained brown is being added to their property.
“Please send your hepatitis titer to me as soon as possible.”
Except, I spelled it hepatits.
Boy howdy, look at them hepatits!
Hey, you never know! It might make for great natural fertilizer! 
Hell of a sight on the lawn, though…
I used to work for an employment agency, and one candidate had a 12-point bold header:
PUBIC RELATIONS EXPERIENCE
His red-faced response was, “Wow. No wonder no one’s responded to the fifty resumes I’ve sent out.”
At yet another homebuilder that I worked at a co-worker made up a fabulous glossy brochure for one of our show homes. I have no idea how the text made it past her, other people reading it and the printer who printed up a gazillion copies, with “extra large pantries in each kitchen” as “extra large panties in each kitchen”.
Then I didn’t feel quite as bad about the whole poo-fence fiasco.
The contractor doing work on the place next door wanted to give me his contact info in case I wanted him to redo my roof (which I really didn’t). He didn’t have his cards with him so he wrote his info on the back of one of my business cards. I guess he wanted to seem like he was a bigwig so he wrote his title on the card as well, only he abbreviated it. I started laughing when I saw that he had written “Ass. Man.” next to his name. Not quite a typo but it was pretty funny to me.
I have some friends who used to do freelance graphic design/small printing jobs and the like. They put together a brochure for some ambulance-chasing law firm, which described the firm’s experience and capabilities and so forth. However, when they billed the firm (after delivery, mind you), they just kept getting the run-around from the law firm. This went on for like a year, before my friends finally got paid…and then, a few weeks after finally receiving payment, they got another order from the same law firm for a new print run for the identical brochures.
Still being irritated, my friends re-edited the brochure, carefully dropping the “L” from the half-dozen or so uses of the phrase “POOL INJURIES”. Printed 'em up, sent 'em off, and billed the company. No one noticed.
Just a few of the many government sites that make reference to pubic access, pubic review, etc.:
http://www.southernregion.fs.fed.us/alabama
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/epi/wnvnd2.html
http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/usace-docs/eng-regs/er405-1-12/8s-4.pdf
peri, ha!
Hmm, sounds vaguely tantric… Oh, to be a forest ranger. “Excuse me, ma’am… how you doin’? ;)”