Received this e-mail today:
Apparently it’s hard to get good help these days.
(I think the author meant “now working.”)
Seen any others recently? Not just an obvious typo, but one that alters the message?
Received this e-mail today:
Apparently it’s hard to get good help these days.
(I think the author meant “now working.”)
Seen any others recently? Not just an obvious typo, but one that alters the message?
Back when I was an undergrad, a typo in the official (not student) MIT paper Tech Talk listed a lecture on The Theological Behavior of Fluids. It was pretty obviously supposed to be Rheological, but the typo made it seem as if it might be about the Blood of St. Januarius or something.
Cal, that gives new meaning to the quote, “For the blood is the lie!”
Dropped letter is intentional.
If it was anyplace other than MIT, I’d have guessed they meant druids.
When I was in school, a couple of friends put on a recital. It was all percussion instruments. They titled the recital “Partners in Time.” When the office typed up their programme, they corrected it to “Partners in Crime.”
Not, perhaps, exactly what you’re looking for, but I’ve always enjoyed this one from the St. Louis Yellow Pages.
Heh. When reading the thread title, yours (OP) was the example I was going to give. I was following up with someone to see if she’d finally done what she was supposed to do a week ago (:rolleyes:) and she replied, “The issue has not been resolved.” The funny part is my eyes read the word “not” as “now” until I was going to forward the e-mail chain to someone who was harassing me about it. There’s a chain of harassment here. Then I realized the error.
My last name starts with a V. I recently got an interoffice email addressed to “Magistrate Vader.” I replied, “Please call me ‘Darth.’” The sender was very embarrassed.
Not a typo, but I Must Share one of the winners in a contest to Change the Meaning of the Phrase by Adding a Word. The winner only added a number, but completely changed the meaning:
When I was a kid, my mom volunteered at a local hospital. She once sent a letter to at least a hundred people that involved “candy strippers”.
A coworker once recieved an email where someone apologized “for the incontinence.”
Of course, there’s the “Wicked Bible” with the famous typo “Thou shalt commit adultery”.
Wish you were here / Wish you were her.
I once read a report of a football match in which a striker tried a shit from from 35 yards.
Possibly apocryphal, but legendary among Shakespeare professors:
The barge she shat on, like a burnish’d throne
Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold…
There’s a parking lot near me with a sign that someone removed the letter ‘e’ from, so that it now reads “PAY HER IN ADVANCE”
I recently emailed a bunch of my friends inviting them to see the movie Inglorious Basters.
Actually, basting is relatively rarely glorious…
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Almost forgot: In the 1990s, there was an XXX theater in the Bronx that was playing a movie that was probably called “Fast Cars, Fast Women”.
However, the marquee said: FAST CARS, FATS WOMEN
A couple of items I saw on line, forget where.
first, a real estate ad for a house that featured, among other things, a “huge dick for entertaining.” (supposed to be deck? Either one would be entertaining…)
second, a newspaper article about a kid who went hunting and “shat a 6-point buck.”
third, a picture of some of the muppets from Sesame Street, with the caption naming them thus: “Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, and The Cunt.”