# Post the funniest typo you've ever seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2004, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149 "2004-05-08T05:53:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GreyWanderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@GreyWanderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreyWanderer)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/21 "2004-05-08T18:01:06Z")
A hairdresser in Norway had a sign that said “Fri syre for all” instead of “Frisyre for alle”. In Norwegian it’s a common error to divide words that should be written together. In this case the meaning was changed from “hairstyles for everyone” to “free acid for everyone”. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/22 "2004-05-08T18:18:07Z")
I was teaching my dialysis tech students about infectious diseases, and I noticed that on the study sheet I passed out to them, I wrote “hepatits”. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/23 "2004-05-08T18:32:53Z")
When I was testing software, I meant to write an error report with the title “No error message when X shuts from overload condition.” I actually wrote “No error message when X shits from overload condition.” The funny thing was, nobody seemed to notice. When the problem was fixed and the report came back to me to test the fix, that’s when I first noticed it. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/24 "2004-05-08T19:00:15Z")
I’m still fond of a salutation I found on a letter I was proofing. It said: Dear Sir or Madman I was so, so tempted to let it go out like that, too. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/25 "2004-05-08T19:16:55Z")
In the _Sarasota [Florida] Herald-Tribune_ in approximately December of 1973, there was an article about euthanasia. They spelled it “youth in Asia.” Not just once, but consistently, each time they used the word in the article. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/26 "2004-05-08T20:18:05Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > 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? Well, in the original text the word “colons” wasn’t italicized. I added italics for emphasis in my quote, which I forgot to mention. Other non-English words in the same book _were_ italicized, which led me to believe that someone made a boo-boo in the sentence I quoted. Still funny. I think from now on I’m addressing ALL my letters as “Dear Sir or Madman!” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/27 "2004-05-08T20:22:21Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I actually wrote “No error message when X shits from overload condition.” Hee. Funny thing is, that’s usually how my co-workers actually describe an application quitting because of an error, so I guess the message would get through either way. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/28 "2004-05-08T20:36:53Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Hee. > > Funny thing is, that’s usually how my co-workers actually describe an application quitting because of an error, so I guess the message would get through either way. Yeah, the beauty of it was that the typo version makes as much, if not more, sense. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/29 "2004-05-08T20:44:36Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > The word _ **ano** _ does not mean “year” in Spanish! I once read (on one of those lists of funny mis-translations) about an incident when the airport in Phoenix, Arizona put up signs in Spanish saying that you had to be 21 years old to purchase alcohol. The way they describe age in Spanish is different than the way we do it in English. Instead of saying “I am 28 years old” (_Yo soy 28 años viejo_), I would say “I have 28 years” (_Yo tengo 28 años_) Unfortunately, they used “anos” instead of “años”. So what they said was, “You must have 21 anuses to purchase alcohol.” ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/30 "2004-05-08T22:16:09Z")
I got a memo at work once referring to the location of our business (The Clock Tower Plaza), only it called it the Cock Tower Plaza. Years before, at a different job in a hotel restaurant, we used to receive printouts of the hotel room numbers and the names of the guests staying in each of those rooms in case the guest wanted to charge his or her meal to the room. One night, I was assisting a waitress with verifying a guest’s room number. We looked at the printout and were amused to see that the guest’s name, Guy, had been mistyped as “Gut.” That was years ago, and it still makes me smile. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/31 "2004-05-08T22:33:18Z")
I nearly forgot this one! I found this in my church bulletin some years back. We were going to have a cookout at a park near a lock and dam. When the announcement was printed in the bulletin, the guy typing it all up stated the location as being the \_\_\_\_\_ Lock and _Damn_. He was totally embarrassed! ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/32 "2004-05-08T22:42:16Z")
Is the joke just that he misspelled “dam”, or also that he forgot to include the name of the dam? ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/33 "2004-05-08T23:02:01Z")
Well, this is another heard one instead of a typo, but years ago a local TV weatherman started off his report with “Our weather today is being dominated by a cold Canadian mares ass…” \*(Make that “air mass”) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Ash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@Mr.Ash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Ash)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/34 "2004-05-08T23:47:53Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > 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. That one occurs quite frequently - our own marketing department will immediately remove “pubic” from any spellchecking dictionary. I think it was a donation guide for the Boy Scouts which mentioned their usage of “pubic campgrounds” which started the crusade. Worse yet, you can read the word five times and not notice it. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/35 "2004-05-08T23:53:41Z")
I discovered the inner beauty of MS Word’s autocorrect ‘feature’, when an essay on medieval music no longer discussed _mensuration_, but, well, I think you can guess… ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/36 "2004-05-08T23:53:56Z")
Classified ad: Itty Bitty Male Yorkshire Terrorist. Very Aggressive. $1000 ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/37 "2004-05-09T00:03:30Z")
I was on the school newspaper in 12th grade. One month, our editor-in-chief’s column had the following written under her byline: “_EDIOT_-IN-CHIEF” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Improvisor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/50afbb/32.png) [@Improvisor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improvisor)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/38 "2004-05-09T00:52:45Z")
A girl I used to work with some years back was named Neema. I always felt bad for her because when people wrote memos and spell-checked them without paying attention, MS Word would always change her name to Enema. Poor thing, but they always made for some funny emails… “Please see Enema about the staff Christmas party.” ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/39 "2004-05-09T01:04:38Z")
About three years ago in Everquest, my guild leader attempted to reply to something or other with “Fuck them all!” An error in spacing turned it into “Fuck the mall!” It stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149/40 "2004-05-09T01:18:07Z")
A TV listing of the movie \*Outland \* said it took place “on one of **Juniper’s** moons.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-the-funniest-typo-youve-ever-seen/244149.md?page=3)