# Awesome typos. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467 "2009-10-03T18:21:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/1 "2009-10-03T18:21:21Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/2 "2009-10-03T18:22:28Z")
“I can’t do that shit. I have band practice” (missing ‘f’ from ‘shift’) ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/3 "2009-10-03T18:36:11Z")
In response to my boss asking if I got the email attachment: “Go tit!” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/4 "2009-10-03T18:51:46Z")
Our own SDMB classic: penis ensued. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/5 "2009-10-03T19:05:02Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/6 "2009-10-03T19:12:21Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/7 "2009-10-03T19:12:40Z")
Edit: Hey you’re still around!! It’s your story, I’ll let you tell it 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/8 "2009-10-03T19:20:55Z")
[Original “penis ensues” thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=294892) ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/9 "2009-10-03T20:44:47Z")
Whatever happened to Olestra anyway? I never see things made with it in the grocery store anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/10 "2009-10-03T21:28:53Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > Whatever happened to Olestra anyway? I never see things made with it in the grocery store anymore. [Wiki link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra) 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 … ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/11 "2009-10-03T21:56:48Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > In response to my boss asking if I got the email attachment: > > “Go tit!” > > :smack: 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.) ---
**Author:** ![HamaMotoMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d78d45/32.png) [@HamaMotoMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HamaMotoMan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/12 "2009-10-03T22:04:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/13 "2009-10-03T23:23:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/14 "2009-10-03T23:35:01Z")
> [@Earthworm\_Jim](#): > > Edit: Hey you’re still around!! It’s your story, I’ll let you tell it 😃 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!_ ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/15 "2009-10-04T00:34:39Z")
[This](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/52208635_fb83a8a3b9.jpg) is one of my favorite typos of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/16 "2009-10-04T01:00:45Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > [This](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/52208635_fb83a8a3b9.jpg) is one of my favorite typos of all time. That reminds me of [a perennial](http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/pml/apa/1388611096.html) of rental housing ads. Truth in advertising paradox at work. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/17 "2009-10-04T01:46:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/18 "2009-10-04T03:33:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/19 "2009-10-04T03:47:38Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/20 "2009-10-04T04:23:48Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > On another forum, some poor fellow posted a thread about timekeeping in space; unfortunately he’d written “Plausible Space Cocks” ..which would be an excellent band name, except there already is a band called the Space Cossacks (surf rock). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467.md?page=2)