The nice UPS man brought my latest order from Amazon today, and I eagerly curled up on the couch and lost myself in my shiny new book. Smoothly my eyes raced over the pages, until they jarred to a halt at this:
Honest typo or Freudian slip? Who knows? Post yours!
I was telling some friends (online) about my chronically overscheduling girlfriend who didn’t have time to spend with me.
“She told me she was too busty to see me.”
Not exactly a typo, but it never fails to provoke a smile when a student turns in a paper in which they “analize” a story.
I’ve been a highly active internet user for well over a decade, as well as an avid reader my entire life, and nothing, I repeat NOTHING, has ever come close to “gotcha ya!”
Maerqis sign at Husky Stadium, Seattle WA:
“Get Season Tits Now!”
I’m not kidding.
I went to pubic school.
“Congradulations to our new members!”
Not that impressive on its own, but what really made it stand out was the fact that it was on the front page of the Harvard Crimson announcing which students had been chosen for the editorial board.
Classified ad in the Charlotte Observer, circa 1989:
For sale, IBM 8086, full 640K RAM, software, color card, sound card, 5-1/4" floppy dick.
Footnote 1 of an Accountant’s Report:
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies:
Remove the o from Accounting.
The client found it. The client was not amused :o
I worked at a radio/television station, and one night, I overheard the broadcaster giving high school wrestling results. He was supposed to say wrestling SECTIONALS, but instead he said wrestling SEXUALS. I about fell out of my chair laughing my ass off.
I know the above wasn’t a typo I SAW, but it was still funny to me…
Maybe I’m being whooshed here, but colons is the French word for colonists.
"Hundreds of thousands of French colonists had settled in Algiers by 1870… "
So how is this a typo or Freudian slip or anything other than a historically accurate sentence misinterpreted by someone who doesn’t know French?
It’s not really a typo, but it still drives me nuts.
Note to all crossword authors and editors:
The word ano does not mean “year” in Spanish!
Headline in a Green Bay newspaper about Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson’s veto powers: “Thompson’s pen is a sword”. Except that there wasn’t much space between “pen” and “is”.
The one thing I’ll miss about my ‘boss’ who’s just left is reading his e-mails riddled with amusing spelling mistakes.
On another discussion board, long ago and far away:
“Life begins at contraception.”
A slight hijack in the same vein–when my dad was a DJ many years ago, he had to do ads for all sorts of companies. It was X-mas time and apparently the seasonal catchphrase was, “This year, Santa is coming faster!” Dad got sick of hearing and saying it and at home was always saying it as, “Santa’s a fat old bastard!” As you may have already guessed, one day on the air, he said it the wrong way (please remember, this was around 1968–and such a word would’ve been a real no-no). Amazingly, as he sat there wondering if he’d really said that, he only got one call–from his astonished boss, who was kind enough not to fire him! :eek:
In a booklet destined for a top level executive conference, I noticed a man’s title was: Senior Director of Pubic Relations
It’s a pesky one because spellcheck will let it go.
While chatting online, my friend has made the two following typos while trying to write too fast:
friendshit and wonderfuk
I’m giggling again just writing them, heehee.
I was amused to see someone in the PennySaver selling a set of “Three stainless steel bowels.” I assume they meant “bowls” but I guess the other would come in handy too.