# Best. typo. ever (at least in a poem from a tiny college in the south) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715 "2008-07-25T06:19:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/21 "2008-07-25T15:52:35Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] Plagiarism and an embarrasing typo and now it’s all over the internet. What an embarrasment to that student. Must have wrecked him. [/QUOTE] I bet he’s totally bummed out. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/22 "2008-07-25T15:53:58Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Someone else mentioned Helen Steiner Rice. She writes really glurgy religious poems. [/QUOTE] This kid’s version is even more banal than the original. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/23 "2008-07-25T15:56:37Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] Plagiarism and an embarrasing typo and now it’s all over the internet. What an embarrasment to that student. Must have wrecked him. [/QUOTE] Rectum? Damn near killed 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/24 "2008-07-25T16:13:32Z")
Since it’s gotten a _lot_ more hits than this thread, in interest of just a tad more privacy protection, I decided to crop the “competition” line at bottom and move to a new flickr account. The new link is [here](http://www.flickr.com/photos/28949748@N06/2700917851/). (Wish I could edit it in the OP- any mods wanna earn a lollipop?) Feel free to share this link like it’s the only woman on a pirate ship. PS- A student worker went through the 100+ copies of the book, whited out ‘anus’, and added arms. Now that it’s known to be plagiarized as well (I can’t find whether it’s copyrighted or not- which is not to say it is) there’s a “should we ask for all copies back?” committee, but I don’t see it happening. Luckily it’s not available commercially at least. ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/25 "2008-07-25T16:15:12Z")
Get behind me Satan! Now we know why. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/26 "2008-07-25T16:22:37Z")
Did it come with [this inspiring image](http://i37.tinypic.com/2irqmnd.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/27 "2008-07-25T16:23:59Z")
Umm… I see “The photo you were looking for has been deleted.” What does it say? ---
**Author:** ![ragerdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@ragerdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ragerdude)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/28 "2008-07-25T16:25:30Z")
Never mind. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/29 "2008-07-25T16:35:25Z")
[QUOTE=ShadowFacts] This kid’s version is even more banal than the original. [/QUOTE] You should have left off the “b.” Folks, a new link is in post #24. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/30 "2008-07-25T16:40:06Z")
I’ve reported post 24 so maybe a mod will see the request sooner and this thread doesn’t become a mess! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/31 "2008-07-25T16:44:20Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Did it come with [this inspiring image](http://i37.tinypic.com/2irqmnd.jpg)? [/QUOTE] ROFL! I will _never_ look at that (oft circulated on email and used as backdrop) image the same again. [QUOTE=Scarlett67] I’ve reported post 24 so maybe a mod will see the request sooner and this thread doesn’t become a mess! [/QUOTE] Thanks. (I may be mistaken, but I’m not sure you can report a thread _you yourself_ started other than by an email.) And tis already done— mods, that lollipop is on its way. (Just wipe the grass and stuff off it, the Tootsie roll at the core’s still good.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/32 "2008-07-25T16:46:30Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] (Wish I could edit it in the OP- any mods wanna earn a lollipop?) [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Scarlett67] I’ve reported post 24 so maybe a mod will see the request sooner and this thread doesn’t become a mess! [/QUOTE] **SO LET IT BE REPORTED, SO LET IT BE DONE.** Link is fixed in the OP. Continue to enjoy the typo. I hope the plagiarism committee tears this student a new one, butt good. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/33 "2008-07-25T16:48:42Z")
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/34 "2008-07-25T16:50:25Z")
PS- As a caveat, the poems and selections were supposedly run through “Turn it in” and other plagiarism softwares. (Obviously they didn’t do a google search as that [turns up a zillion results](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22god+saw+she+was+getting+tired%22&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8).) According to one of the editors “I _did_ google some of the entries, but not that one… frankly I didn’t think it was _good enough_ for anybody to have to plagiarize it.” I’m not exactly sure how the plagiarism softwares work, but apparently they’re not exhaustive. Or perhaps they checked for “anus” “poem” “god” as keywords. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/35 "2008-07-25T16:53:44Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] According to one of the editors “I _did_ google some of the entries, but not that one… frankly I didn’t think it was _good enough_ for anybody to have to plagiarize it.” [/quote] That logic is just totally ass-backward. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/36 "2008-07-25T17:00:40Z")
Typo? What typo? I mean … it’s a poem about [Yog-Sothoth](http://images.epilogue.net/users/megaflow/yog-sothoth.jpg), right? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/37 "2008-07-25T17:01:36Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] (Wish I could edit it in the OP- any mods wanna earn a lollipop?) [/QUOTE] I’ll take that lollipop now, please. (But if it’s all the same to you, I’d rather have a good root beer.) ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/38 "2008-07-25T17:06:31Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Thanks. (I may be mistaken, but I’m not sure you can report a thread _you yourself_ started other than by an email.) [/QUOTE] I’m pretty sure that you can report somebody else’s post in the thread, and just direct the mods to the post you want to be edited. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/39 "2008-07-25T17:10:49Z")
Sigh. I don’t get my root beer, after all. **Marley23** beat me to it. I just copied his efforts (no typo, though). ---
**Author:** ![pantheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-typo-ever-at-least-in-a-poem-from-a-tiny-college-in-the-south/457715/40 "2008-07-25T18:15:29Z")
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