# Awesome typos.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467>\
**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")\
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**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 7, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/41 "2009-10-07T21:19:09Z")

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> [@borschevsky](#):
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> A recent email:
> 
> "Don’t you all think the meeting should be rescheduled to a later time?
> 
> Retards,
> 
> -Name-"

New keyboard please.

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**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 7, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/42 "2009-10-07T22:22:35Z")

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ETA: I SOOOOO ‘accidentally on purpose’ want to work ‘Retards’ into one of my work emails one day. Problem is. Most people who get emails from me know that ‘Regards’ is part of my automated signature. If they saw ‘Retards’ they’d suspect foul-play.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-typos/512467/43 "2009-10-08T04:28:17Z")

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During the 2004 primary races, a lot of conservative-leaning blogs managed to refer to Howard Dean as “[Howard Dead](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS349&q=%22howard%20dean%22%20%22howard%20dead%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0)”. Seeing as how n and d are nowhere near each other on the keyboard, some may wish to (and indeed, some did) work a Freudian angle into this.

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