# Great meta-typos

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-meta-typos/783584>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 2, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-meta-typos/783584 "2017-04-02T14:01:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-meta-typos/783584/21 "2017-04-06T12:54:14Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> I’ve changed my mind, this is now my favorite part, thinking about someone being quoted as actually saying that cracks me up. Although the abrupt shift into “managing to stroke the ball home” is still pretty funny.

One of the funniest parts, to me, is the way each paragraph keeps starting over–as if the very article itself realized that it was messing up, and kept trying to do it over and get it right. Only to mess up _yet again_, and end up ineffectually spluttering out the only coherent words it could manage: “at the library.”

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