Yesterday, I saw minutes of a meeting in which council “discussed options for necessary repairs to a critical support bean in the underground parking area.”
I love that image.
What have you got?
“I can’t do that shit. I have band practice”
(missing ‘f’ from ‘shift’)
In response to my boss asking if I got the email attachment:
“Go tit!”
:smack:
Our own SDMB classic: penis ensued.
Forgive my embarrassing ignorance, but what was it meant to be?
“Pen Is Ensued”?
“Pen Is Insured”?
I never knew it was a typo. I always just saw it and sort of did this - :dubious: and then moved on.
I think it was intended as “panic ensued.”
There was an SOP at company I worked for that said something along the lines of “in order to ensure complaint documentation…”, which I thought was pretty funny, given as all of our work was regularly reviewed and audited. I ignored that SOP and decided to make my work compliant instead!
Edit: Hey you’re still around!! It’s your story, I’ll let you tell it 
Whatever happened to Olestra anyway? I never see things made with it in the grocery store anymore.
Wiki link Olestra died as a food additive when too many people had to RUN to the bathroom. Wiki says it might be useful as lubricant or paint base. Interesting!
My contribution to the thread:
My boss recently sent an email in response to a suggestion of questionable applicability. The email contained the phrase:
“I shat a smart idea?”
She meant “Is that a smart idea?” She’s normally a better typist.
I did not tell her, but I had to tell Mama Zappa or I was going to explode with laughter at work. Then I would have had to explain …
I made the same exact typo during an IM with a coworker. Now it’s become a thing. Anytime we’re confirming some instruction, we respond with “Go tit!”
My same coworker/friend once relayed the story of designing a corporate website with a web developer. The developer had to build one of those menus where you choose from all of the US states for a web form the user must fill out. Among the usual abbreviations, was this curiosity: “AS”
Thus a new state had been born, and quickly became known as Assabama.
That one never got old.
(He thought it was the abbreviation for Alaska, apparently.)
Instant messaging where most people overlook typos has been a fount for me.
I once knew this girl who wasn’t all that adept at the English language, and when she chatted with me one msn she was candid and talked about whatever.
One conversation she was talking about the difficulty of swallowing coke in full. She’s pretty prim, but her typo turned coke into a particularly colloquial word for the male reproductive organ.
I remember spending at least four minutes in stunned silence as she described to me vaguely how taking it all in her mouth at once before swallowing was thrilling.
lol.
After a year of working Security at a small university, I developed the quirk of accidentally typing “Stupid” when I meant “Student”. Every. Goddamned. Time. I’d type it automatically without thinking, stop, mentally kick myself, back up and correct it.
And no, I didn’t think the students were stupid.
It wasn’t my typo! I just remember the thread, because apparently, I’ve been here forever!
ETA: Another typo I have is the complete inability to spell my friend’s name when I type: Jospeth is much more likely to appear on the screen than Joseph (and yeah, I had to correct that one!) Dunno why, but he does the same thing!
This is one of my favorite typos of all time.
That reminds me of a perennial of rental housing ads. Truth in advertising paradox at work.
On another forum, some poor fellow posted a thread about timekeeping in space; unfortunately he’d written “Plausible Space Cocks” for a title which rather derailed the discussion right off.
In the patient history part of the order for a hip x-ray, the reason given for requesting the pictures was:
Osteopenis
And, no, it wasn’t calcified.
One of the marketing research people in the dept. where I worked had a typo in her official bio that went out in the promotional packages to solicit new projects:
“…Soandso did numerous studies on pubic sentiment…” (pubic instead of public) LOL!
Did I tell? Nooooooooooooo… hated her. 
In fact, I was kind of responsible since I was head of the dept. that typed said bio and the person who did the typing actually did it on purpose because he hated her too. No one ever caught on.
I hope she freakin’ reads this. LOL!
…which would be an excellent band name, except there already is a band called the Space Cossacks (surf rock).