# Best News Typo of the Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404 "2004-10-21T14:01:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/21 "2004-10-22T04:44:56Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Gotta stop drinkin’ and postin’ > > Our Sun is spectral class G2V Thanks for ‘setting me straight’ on that one. Then: Sol is not a White Dwarf, it’s a Yellow G2V. (Almost sounds like a Cambodian-made automobile.) SnSp ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/22 "2004-10-22T04:55:36Z")
What is the matter with you guys? Sol isn’t a white dwarf-he’s a nice Jewish guy who runs the deli over on 14th. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/23 "2004-10-22T05:00:50Z")
Oh yeah. If you get the Ruben, make sure and ask for extra lotion. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/24 "2004-10-22T05:02:29Z")
There’re these two quantum physicists. One of them walks into a bar, and the other one doesn’t… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/25 "2004-10-22T05:09:04Z")
You clidder. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/26 "2004-10-22T08:03:24Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > There’re these two quantum physicists. One of them walks into a bar, and the other one doesn’t… But is the one that walked into the bar simultaneuosly dead and alive? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/27 "2004-10-22T08:08:31Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > There’re these two quantum physicists. One of them walks into a bar, and the other one doesn’t… No no no, it’s So there’s this quantum physicists, and he simultaneously walks and doesn’t walk into a bar. He only walks into the bar if you watch him, so I do. He gets real mad when I do that. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/28 "2004-10-22T12:54:55Z")
> [@milquetoast](#): > > No, no, no! The third one distorts the time-space continuum so as to avoid it. That would be quite an act – in fact, a tesser-act! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/29 "2004-10-22T12:57:11Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Gotta stop drinkin’ and postin’ > > Our Sun is spectral class G2V “But I wanted an A-1 star!” “Oh, get Sirius!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/30 "2004-10-22T13:13:27Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Albino Midget = White Dwarf = Sun Yes, but, pedantic astrophysicist comment coming up… Our sun isn’t a white dwarf! Its a main sequence star. It may _become_ a white dwarf one day, far in the future, but it isn’t a white dwarf at the moment. Apologies for my pedantry. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/31 "2004-10-22T13:14:33Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > Yes, but, pedantic astrophysicist comment coming up… > > Our sun isn’t a white dwarf! Its a main sequence star. It may _become_ a white dwarf one day, far in the future, but it isn’t a white dwarf at the moment. > > Apologies for my pedantry. 😉 **Hal** , I think your joke is very, very dead now. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/32 "2004-10-22T13:32:17Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > Yes, but, pedantic astrophysicist comment coming up… > > Our sun isn’t a white dwarf! Its a main sequence star. It may _become_ a white dwarf one day, far in the future, but it isn’t a white dwarf at the moment. > > Apologies for my pedantry. 😉 Damn, that’s sexy! Sorry, I was ogling your big ol’ bouncy brain. 😃 Hey, **Poly**! You pretending to be the Dog Star? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/33 "2004-10-22T13:44:56Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > No no no, it’s > > So there’s this quantum physicists, and he simultaneously walks and doesn’t walk into a bar. He only walks into the bar if you watch him, so I do. He gets real mad when I do that. I can tell you when he walked into the bar or where he walked into a bar. But not both. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/34 "2004-10-22T13:46:50Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Hey, **Poly**! You pretending to be the Dog Star? Only if Timmy’s stuck in the well again! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/35 "2004-10-22T13:48:07Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Damn, that’s sexy! > > Sorry, I was ogling your big ol’ bouncy brain. 😃 As opposed to any other part of my anatomy that may be bouncing? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/36 "2004-10-22T13:49:54Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > I can tell you when he walked into the bar or where he walked into a bar. But not both. At least, not with any certainty. One atom to another: “I’ve lost an electron!” Other Atom: “Are you sure?” First atom: * * * ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/37 "2004-10-22T13:52:08Z")
Very conservative atoms tend to cast away electrons at all possible opportunities – holding Right to Work values, they’re afraid of being unionized. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/38 "2004-10-22T13:53:37Z")
What goes meow and is very small? A cation ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/39 "2004-10-22T13:59:24Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > As opposed to any other part of my anatomy that may be bouncing? 😉 Now, you know it was your posts that made you so very attractive to all of us. But, after we saw what you could do at all those pub fests…! Ever notice how active galactic cores look like certain appendages when viewed in the right spectrum? Would the reflections of small cars from a subdivision of GM be classified as a Geo Spectrum? **Polycarp** , Arf! Woof, bark, bow wow. BOW WOW! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404/40 "2004-10-22T14:02:44Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > What goes meow and is very small? > A cation But one found in a slightly different universe would be an alter-cation! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-news-typo-of-the-day/270404.md?page=3)