I’m doing some business with Countrywide Home Loans. I was just copied on a letter to the Countrywide contact. In the address, the person writing the letter dropped the “o” from Countrywide. Jumps right off the page I tell you!
I’ve been spelling “accounts” as “acocunts” so often lately that I set up the AutoCorrect in Word.
Also, I went to Public Policy School where we were all quite careful about that first “l”. Leave it to the Dean of Students to actually make the feared mistake in a school-wide letter.
My brother made a great typo in MPSIMS just a few weeks ago. He posted to let everyone know that I’d gotten through Hurricane Wilma, but that I was without power, water and phone service in my apartment:
Mom and I still haven’t let him live that one down. 
I was chatting with my friend online about how I needed a new cellphone. I said:
“Hold on, I’m gunna go bed my dad for a new phone.”
He (my friend) never let that go. Ever.
I was typing a letter for someone at a job once and ended it with, “Please call free to feel me.” The only one who caught it was the guy she sent it to.
I had to update my info for my broker when I changed jobs, so I crossed out “editor” and wrote in “photo archivist” under “occupation.”
Just tonight I got back the verification form and - I swear to you - under “occupation” it says “photo antichrist.”
The salary’s not much, but the benefits are fabulous!
The church bulletin one time when I was younger was advertising a musical performance that week.
“So-and-So will be performing a flute rectal at 5pm”
Ouch!
I am a public defender. I have been for 18 years :eek: . A long time ago, I got used to inmates calling me the “public offender”. One day, I got a letter addressed to “Pubic Defender”. I took it to the chief judge and told him that if I was going to start doing that, I was going to need a BIG raise.
One typo, and one spoken mistake that kind of fits the subject.
Working at a call center we had to log all of our calls into a database. We had to have a title, description, and resolution. Once you hit save, you could not edit the first two fields. I was looking up a previous problem for a caller who was still having the same problem. Looking through the history I came accross the following “User has a floppy dick that dosen’t work.” I ended up putting the customer on hold for 5 minutes while I “checked their call history.” I found out that the person who made the typo was a friend of mine. We poked fun at him for weeks.
During highschool we had a debate class. One of the debates they were doing was on animal testing. During the middle of the debate one of the girls on the side of no animal testing stands up, slams her fist on the table, and in a loud voice states, “All orgasms have a right to live.” Everyone looked on stuned, and she sat down real quick. The teacher started to giggle trying not to laugh, but that started the entire class.
-Otanx
Clarence Thomas could have used a Pubic Defender.
It’s not mine, but I find it absolutely hilarious. Reuters recently sent out a short story on a companies’ recall of over 94,000 pounds of beef patties. Somehow, that first ‘t’ in patties became an n. Amazing how one little teeny letter can make such a difference in the tone of a story…
Ha! My mom made the same type of “orgasm” spoke-o in church . . .* Mormon* church, no less! Her intention was to express the need to be kind to all God’s critters, because animals, like humans, are “living, breathing orgasms” :o
12 million years ago when I was a clerk for a small special events company I managed to send out a biz solicitation letter to all 210 “Peninsula Bank” branches with the address header on the letter being “Penis Ula Bank.” Due to some evil mailmerge program glitch, all the letters also opened with “Dear Mr. or Ms. Penis.”
My all-time favourite typo, and one I damned near let go at as-is, was encountered during my time as a proofreader in a bank’s word processing center. A letter came across my desk one day with the following salutation:
To this day, I don’t know how I resisted the temptation.
Another one, also amusing but nowhere near as classic as the first one, was found in the boilerplate for a refinancing letter that had been sent out for years.
Well, I don’t know. Is the officer cute? Do I have to feed him?
A boy made the organism/orgasm mistake in a presentation in my 7th grade English class. We were still making fun of him for it our senior year.
Frankly, I’d be surprised if panties weren’t contaminated with E. coli. Ground beef or no.
I’m constantly correcting myself for spelling “reprocess” as “reporcess”.
While reading the notes in one account I was amused to see that a patient “doe snot” have any benefits.
Saw one today on a sign at a shop: Closed due to a Family Lost.
And at the Riverside Hotel in Laughlin: an antique craps table has a huge sign on it that says CRAP table.
I don’t have one of my own to relate, but this reminded me of a story my mom told me. When she was in grade school choir, the teacher always told them to “sing exactly what’s on the page.” Well, one time, they were learning “There’s No Business Like Show Business.” The teacher had handed out mimeographed lyric sheets. So they’re singing the song, and everyone notices the typo but the teacher. It comes up to the line, which they all sang in perfect unison, “…upon your door they’ve hung a stat…”
Hilarity ensued.
The not-for-profit organization I work for sent out this gem in a thank you letter to a donor:
your thoughtfulness enables us to improve the quality of life for many people and even for the wildlife who inhibit the woods along the trail.
Didn’t happen to me, but I saw the document. A co-worker typed up a letter to fax to one “Dr. Ecrement,” and dutifully ran the spell checker. Fortunately she noticed *before * faxing it that the spell checker had corrected the name to…
Dr. Excrement