From many years ago:
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The church bulletin once mention the upcoming ‘flute rectal’ by a member of the congregation.
I once worked at an elementary school with a new teacher who had an unruly seventh grade class. When he sent out a memo to parents about the upcoming trip to the “pubic library”, he lost all control of his class for the rest of the year. Poor guy!
Having gone to Public Policy school adds a whole nother level of stress to resume-writing and proofreading.
Maybe the parting of the Red Sea?
(runs the hell out of the thread)
On another forum, I recall someone started a thread about timekeeping standards in a spacefaring civilization ( since different planets have different rotational periods and all ). Unfortunately his typo in the thread title diverted things for a while; "What’s a Good Space Cock? "
I don’t know, with porn you can never be sure.
Last year when there was the big salmonella-in-the-peanut-butter scare, I was trying to find some info on which products had been recalled and found a typo in a recall notice on the web pages of one of the major commercial peanut butter suppliers. The notice said something to the effect that they did not sell peanut butter that was available to the consumer, but that their peanut butter might be found in other possibly tainted items in people’s pantries.
Except they left the “r” out of pantries.
All of my typos on this forum end up reversing my meaning. I think they have a filter to remove the word “not”.
I mentioned this before, but I used to be a notary public. And yes, that unfortunate typo did appear once in the training manual.
While googling the name George W. Bush, I noticed the google listing for georgewbush.org/ which starts “Welcome to the future home of the officious George W. Bush Presidential Library” Guess that’s where they’ll put all the really obnoxious and intrusive librarians, eh?
We have set up our Word installations at our Archictectural to customize the dictionary by removing the words “Pubic” and “Bride”
There’s nothing like reading a proposal or specifications that call out the wiring for all pubic areas, or the maximum load capacity on a bride. (pubic = public, bride = bridge).
Just avoid designing anything that involves weddings :
“That’s weird, I didn’t know the Catholics put bridges in front of their altars.”
Well, don’t keep us in suspense. Did he make it?
Two that I’ve seen personally:
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In 1990 the local newspaper issued a correction. They had written that a local church was having a lecture and discussion entitled “Newness in the nighties.” The apology stated that it was meant to read “Newness in the nineties.” Shame really, I think the former would attract a better crowd to the church than the latter.
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I was working in a Pathology lab and one of the lab technicians was writing up a routine full blood count report. She meant to type that the patient had a “high red count” but unfortunately left out the “o” in count. Fortunately it was caught before being sent out.
People forget direct address commas all the time, resulting in things like:
“Please see that you do Sally.”
Helpful hint: Direct address commas are always required. No exceptions. It’s becoming appallingly common online to leave them out, but that just leaves the writer looking ignorant or lazy.
Our church bulletin noted the birth of our two boys as “the twin sins of Mr. and Mrs. Kunilou.”
At my work computer I decided to just kill Word’s autocorrect feature, and am on a crusade to get the rest of the staff to do so as well.
No. He failed to control his shit, which flew wide of the post and struck a supporter sitting in row G.
This incident famously spawned the expression, ‘when the shit hits the fan’.
Well played, sir. Well played.