An ad in the Charlotte Observer classifieds about ten years ago that went something like this:
Yikes! Uncle and Coldie, I meant to put this in IMHO. Sorry.
My mum actually pronounces disk as “dick” - she’s asked my boyfriend so many times to help her with her “hard dick”. ::shudder::
A prestigious private school near me had a billboard up that read: “The Best Education for You’re Daughter”. And I think one school had “millennium” spelled wrong on their senior school jumpers.
I don’t remember how the cutline under this picture was actually worded (and I’m too lazy right nw to go find it). But two years ago, on the anniversary of the first moon walk, our local paper ran a picture on the front page of an astronaut standing on the moon. It said that the astronaut was Buzz Aldrin, “the first man to walk on the moon.”
I saved it. That kind of error was just too stunning to throw away.
I once saw an article in the Baltimore Sun that refered to deployment of the “F/A 18 Super Horney fighter plane”. Insert your own Tailhook joke here.
From one of my students’ papers:
“Tipper Gore founded the Parents’ Music Resource Center, which is responsible for putting warning labels on offensive cads.”
(I wish they would. It would make dating much simpler.)
here are some funny misprints and things. I particularly like the “anal exams” picture.
Well, it’s not a misprint per se, but for a long time there was a road sign near the airport that read:
E 62th St
I may have mentioned this before. When I was in college I was the secretary for our schools NYPIRG chapter. One fine Saturday morning had a few of us fixing a typo in 5000 or so pamphlets delivered to us. Instead of The New York Public Interest Research Group the printer put The New York Pubic Interest Research Group.
We all thought it would be easier to change the focus of NYPIRG than to sit around on a Saturday and put in the "L"s. It wouldn’t have taken as much effort.
The New Yorker used to reprint amusing misprints. One I’ve always remembered referred to “General and Mrs. Issimo” attending some function or other. Another made mention of the sweethart of Sig McKay (or it may have been MacKay).
I once saw an ad in a local newspaper for
“Cock Full O’ Nuts” brand coffee.