Last week, in the Classified section of the Aberdeen(WA) Daily World, there was a Help Wanted ad for a day care center. It mentioned that the hours were mostly days, but “with occasional night shits.” It ran two days in a row like this before they corrected it.
The Editor-in-Chief, in a move you must admire, centered his Sunday editorial on typos, and featured this one. Most papers would have avoided reprinting it, but he put it on the Op-Ed page. He wrote about other errors in the Daily World and other papers but this one is a favorite:
When talking about the way some police manhunt was progressing, they once said the search was hampered by “three inches of snot on the ground.”