NEW: Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
NEW: Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
“Leslie Smith, Fred Jones and a bunch of motherfuckers” - A group-photo caption in a local newspaper that the editor wrote as a placeholder and then forgot to go back to complete
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
“Leslie Smith, Fred Jones and a bunch of motherfuckers” - A group-photo caption in a local newspaper that the editor wrote as a placeholder and then forgot to go back to complete
In St’ Johns, Newfoundland, phoographer Frank Kennedy submitted a photo of the 9 graduates at the St. Clair’s Nursing School, four of whom were named Mary. For the caption, he added Mary as a middle name to the other five, as a gag to see if his editor would catch it. He didn’t and it went to press.
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
“Leslie Smith, Fred Jones and a bunch of motherfuckers” - A group-photo caption in a local newspaper that the editor wrote as a placeholder and then forgot to go back to complete
In St’ Johns, Newfoundland, phoographer Frank Kennedy submitted a photo of the 9 graduates at the St. Clair’s Nursing School, four of whom were named Mary. For the caption, he added Mary as a middle name to the other five, as a gag to see if his editor would catch it. He didn’t and it went to press.
“If you have ever - like me - missed the R and hit the T, addressing some fat blister, as Mt. instead of Mr., I trust you left it unamended? Splendid!” ~Ogden Nash
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
“Leslie Smith, Fred Jones and a bunch of motherfuckers” - A group-photo caption in a local newspaper that the editor wrote as a placeholder and then forgot to go back to complete
In St’ Johns, Newfoundland, phoographer Frank Kennedy submitted a photo of the 9 graduates at the St. Clair’s Nursing School, four of whom were named Mary. For the caption, he added Mary as a middle name to the other five, as a gag to see if his editor would catch it. He didn’t and it went to press.
“If you have ever - like me - missed the R and hit the T, addressing some fat blister, as Mt. instead of Mr., I trust you left it unamended? Splendid!” ~Ogden Nash
“Unit will not eject dick properly.”
As seen on a customer service report for a piece of equipment with a bad floppy drive. My boss demanded to know who had entered the description into the system.
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
“Leslie Smith, Fred Jones and a bunch of motherfuckers” - A group-photo caption in a local newspaper that the editor wrote as a placeholder and then forgot to go back to complete
In St’ Johns, Newfoundland, phoographer Frank Kennedy submitted a photo of the 9 graduates at the St. Clair’s Nursing School, four of whom were named Mary. For the caption, he added Mary as a middle name to the other five, as a gag to see if his editor would catch it. He didn’t and it went to press.
“If you have ever - like me - missed the R and hit the T, addressing some fat blister, as Mt. instead of Mr., I trust you left it unamended? Splendid!” ~Ogden Nash
“Unit will not eject dick properly.”
“Mush From the Wimp” - title of a 1980 Boston Globe editorial about Jimmy Carter (some typesetter put that in as a joke, but forgot to change it to the real title before they went to press!)
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
“Leslie Smith, Fred Jones and a bunch of motherfuckers” - A group-photo caption in a local newspaper that the editor wrote as a placeholder and then forgot to go back to complete
In St’ Johns, Newfoundland, phoographer Frank Kennedy submitted a photo of the 9 graduates at the St. Clair’s Nursing School, four of whom were named Mary. For the caption, he added Mary as a middle name to the other five, as a gag to see if his editor would catch it. He didn’t and it went to press.
“If you have ever - like me - missed the R and hit the T, addressing some fat blister, as Mt. instead of Mr., I trust you left it unamended? Splendid!” ~Ogden Nash
“Unit will not eject dick properly.”
“Mush From the Wimp” - title of a 1980 Boston Globe editorial about Jimmy Carter (some typesetter put that in as a joke, but forgot to change it to the real title before they went to press!)
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
“Leslie Smith, Fred Jones and a bunch of motherfuckers” - A group-photo caption in a local newspaper that the editor wrote as a placeholder and then forgot to go back to complete
In St’ Johns, Newfoundland, phoographer Frank Kennedy submitted a photo of the 9 graduates at the St. Clair’s Nursing School, four of whom were named Mary. For the caption, he added Mary as a middle name to the other five, as a gag to see if his editor would catch it. He didn’t and it went to press.
“If you have ever - like me - missed the R and hit the T, addressing some fat blister, as Mt. instead of Mr., I trust you left it unamended? Splendid!” ~Ogden Nash
“Unit will not eject dick properly.”
“Mush From the Wimp” - title of a 1980 Boston Globe editorial about Jimmy Carter (some typesetter put that in as a joke, but forgot to change it to the real title before they went to press!)
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
“Leslie Smith, Fred Jones and a bunch of motherfuckers” - A group-photo caption in a local newspaper that the editor wrote as a placeholder and then forgot to go back to complete
In St’ Johns, Newfoundland, phoographer Frank Kennedy submitted a photo of the 9 graduates at the St. Clair’s Nursing School, four of whom were named Mary. For the caption, he added Mary as a middle name to the other five, as a gag to see if his editor would catch it. He didn’t and it went to press.
“If you have ever - like me - missed the R and hit the T, addressing some fat blister, as Mt. instead of Mr., I trust you left it unamended? Splendid!” ~Ogden Nash
“Unit will not eject dick properly.”
“Mush From the Wimp” - title of a 1980 Boston Globe editorial about Jimmy Carter (some typesetter put that in as a joke, but forgot to change it to the real title before they went to press!)
I was once typesetting a corporate annual report. There was a photo of a group of men, with all their names in the caption. One of the names was “Olivia de Havilland,” obviously a temporary place holder. It got printed that way.
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
“Leslie Smith, Fred Jones and a bunch of motherfuckers” - A group-photo caption in a local newspaper that the editor wrote as a placeholder and then forgot to go back to complete
In St’ Johns, Newfoundland, phoographer Frank Kennedy submitted a photo of the 9 graduates at the St. Clair’s Nursing School, four of whom were named Mary. For the caption, he added Mary as a middle name to the other five, as a gag to see if his editor would catch it. He didn’t and it went to press.
“If you have ever - like me - missed the R and hit the T, addressing some fat blister, as Mt. instead of Mr., I trust you left it unamended? Splendid!” ~Ogden Nash
“Unit will not eject dick properly.”
“Mush From the Wimp” - title of a 1980 Boston Globe editorial about Jimmy Carter (some typesetter put that in as a joke, but forgot to change it to the real title before they went to press!)
I was once typesetting a corporate annual report. There was a photo of a group of men, with all their names in the caption. One of the names was “Olivia de Havilland,” obviously a temporary place holder. It got printed that way.
Funny or notable typos you’ve seen in books or magazines, and the work
“Now, very quickly, he thought. Take all the time you want because you’ll do this just once. He put his hands into his coat and dried them against his shirt. He wiped his face with a BANANA then drew his pistol and wiped it carefully.” THE BOUNTY HUNTERS by Elmore Leonard
“The storm left the Trans-Canada Highway under eight inches of SNOT” – St. John’s Evening Telegram.
“Thou shalt commit adultery.” 1631 edition of the King James Version.
“salt and freshly ground black people.” 2010 edition of The Pasta Bible, Penguin Australia
“Leslie Smith, Fred Jones and a bunch of motherfuckers” - A group-photo caption in a local newspaper that the editor wrote as a placeholder and then forgot to go back to complete
In St’ Johns, Newfoundland, phoographer Frank Kennedy submitted a photo of the 9 graduates at the St. Clair’s Nursing School, four of whom were named Mary. For the caption, he added Mary as a middle name to the other five, as a gag to see if his editor would catch it. He didn’t and it went to press.
“If you have ever - like me - missed the R and hit the T, addressing some fat blister, as Mt. instead of Mr., I trust you left it unamended? Splendid!” ~Ogden Nash
“Unit will not eject dick properly.”
“Mush From the Wimp” - title of a 1980 Boston Globe editorial about Jimmy Carter (some typesetter put that in as a joke, but forgot to change it to the real title before they went to press!)
Rapefruit, good for every meal
Attention Incestors
I was once typesetting a corporate annual report. There was a photo of a group of men, with all their names in the caption. One of the names was “Olivia de Havilland,” obviously a temporary place holder. It got printed that way.
n the early 50s, shortly after the color bar was broken in baseball, the Fond du Lac (WI) Commonwealth Reported published a picture of a black player with the minor league Panthers, captioned “John Fucker”. I’ve searched the Panther rosters for those years, and can find no player with a name similar to that, so it may have been a place holder.
Buddha David started first, I did not see the post that nijaed mine. It was rolled over onto the next page, which makes it not appear when I refresh. It seems to work to do two at once.
Plays on words with celebrity names.
What you get from a Keurig: Tony Perkin’s
What happens when Gracie forgets the Coppertone? George Burns
Where to go to buy a discount replacement male organ? Peter Sellers
Best basket ball team in Philadelphia? Shirley Temple. (Surely not the 76ers)
