# Headline typos
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 28, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851 "2007-01-28T17:45:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/1 "2007-01-28T17:45:22Z")
[Update: Palestinian Leaders Plead For Clam On Streets Of Gaza](http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006282312)
Israel shouldn’t be so shellfish.
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### Author:  [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/2 "2007-01-28T20:02:45Z")
Yeah, that’s not kosher.
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/3 "2007-01-28T20:29:55Z")
It’s not a headline but I firmly believe that [this](http://ordinary.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/panties_1.jpg) is one of the best typos _ever_. It’s even better that it’s a wire service and most major news organizations picked it up.
A simple slip of the fingers and a dull story about a beef recall becomes something about meaty, edible undergarments…
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### Author:  [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/4 "2007-01-28T20:56:37Z")
[This blog](http://www.regrettheerror.com/) is one of my favorites. It named the Reuters typo its typo of the year in 2005. This past year’s was another Reuters report that used “Queen Elizabeth” instead of “the queen” in a story about bees (my guess is an automatic replacement macro in Word).
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/5 "2007-01-28T22:34:36Z")
Ah, if only the solution to war was as simple as a good old fishing trip.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/6 "2007-01-28T22:40:50Z")
Not a typo, but one of my favorite headlines ever was when Bartolo Colon was still pitching for the White Sox. The ChiSox beat the snot outta my Tigers and the headline on the sports section was “Whiffs of Colon KO Tigers”.
I love that one.
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/7 "2007-01-29T03:59:17Z")
Google News always has typos… somewhere in its “report a problem” section (I was bored once… and I hate typos) they mention that they don’t control the wording of the title. Well why not take one of the 3,000 _other_ articles you link to on the topic that _are not_ full of typos?
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### Author:  [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/8 "2007-01-29T15:28:17Z")
My local newspaper, about three weeks after 9/11, on a story about Islam:
Muslims Prey on Friday
(ouch!)
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/9 "2007-01-29T18:18:49Z")
Funniest one I ever saw was in a book called **The Bumper Book of Boobs** , which turned out not to be about female breasts at all\*.
The relevant headline was about a rugby team, the name of which I forget, so I’ll put a line there:
**\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Forgets How to Ruck**
The funny part was that the last word in the headline was mistyped – it began with an “F”
\*It was a collection of humorous typos (“boobs”) from British Newspapers. The book predated the Columbia Journalism Review’s collections **Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim** and **Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge** , and LOoooong predates Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” routine and books.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/10 "2007-01-29T18:22:29Z")
Just so’s you’re clear – what I typed above is the way the headline was _supposed_ to read. It took me quite a while to figure that out (nobody uses “ruck” in the US, outside of rugby players )
The line as printed had an “F” in it.
I’m amazed they never caught that one. Or else someone _really_ hated the team.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/11 "2007-01-29T18:36:26Z")
Hey! I found the source:
> **["Private Eye's" Bumper Book of Boobs: Amazon.co.uk: Ingrams, Richard:...](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Private-Eyes-Bumper-Book-Boobs/dp/0233964924)**
>
> Buy "Private Eye's" Bumper Book of Boobs Reprint by Ingrams, Richard (ISBN: 9780233964928) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/12 "2007-01-29T18:48:10Z")
[QUOTE=JohnGalt]
Muslims Prey on Friday
[/QUOTE]
They ate Jack Webb? The bastards! [I thought a guy who played a TV cop would count as pork…]
My favorite is “Rumsfeld’s Pubic Role Shrinking.”
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/13 "2007-01-29T18:54:38Z")
[Africa snubbed for Africa leadership because of Darfur](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/wl_nm/africa_summit_dc_7)
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/14 "2007-01-29T19:21:28Z")
My favorite, from the _Green Bay Press-Gazette,_ back when Tommy Thompson was our governor:
**Thompson’s pen is a sword**
Only the kerning between the second and third words was a little tight . . .
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/15 "2007-01-29T21:05:04Z")
[Warden says inmate felt now pain](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070129/ap_on_re_us/botched_execution_1)
Also **When** pain:
> [@](#):
>
> appeared to be straining to see a clock
Today seems a good day for these things.
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### Author:  [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/16 "2007-01-29T22:36:01Z")
It wasn’t a typo as such, but this seems an ideal opportunity to recall the famous WW2 headline about the campaign in North Africa:
**Eighth Army Push Bottles Up Germans**
Ouch!
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### Author:  [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2007, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/17 "2007-01-30T06:04:30Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham]
JI’m amazed they never caught that one. Or else someone _really_ hated the team.
[/QUOTE]
Maybe the editor was as drunk as the team was after the game. The team musta been pretty hammered, to forget how to …err… ruck.
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/headline-typos/389851/18 "2007-01-30T17:48:55Z")
The headline to [this](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/15/AR2006101500904.html) article is:
“Home-Business Application Stirs Tensions in Manassas”
with sub-headline: “Gay Masseur, Some Residents at Odds”
For Dopers outside of the Washington, DC (USA) area, Manassas is a town in the outer Virginia suburbs of DC.
The original headline of this article on the Washington Post’s web site was **“Gay Masseur Divides Manassas”** :eek:
The Post claimed it was a typo :dubious: and changed the headline.