An advertising agency at which I once worked did a newsletter for one of our more important clients. The first issue had a photo on the first page of the company’s MD – a Mr Tony Winder. The caption beneath read: Tiny Wonder.
At another message board, one of the more frequent posters wanted to make reference to “the gorilla and platypus”. Sadly, he mis-typed the “and”.
Gorilla-nad platypusses have made occasional appearences ever since.
Ooowowowowoohwowoo!
“proffreeder”?
Don’t forget “fucko off.”
I once found a sign in a classroom warning us of a “type-O” on the printed schedule. I couldn’t decide if it was serious or a joke, but it pretty much sums up my opinion of American literacy.
The people over at Fark.com seem to have invented “shiat,” but that might have been intentional, the better to fool web-blockers.
The office of Dr. Brennan, The rapist
“just” always turns into “jsut” and “because” into “becasue”
i can’t help it…it’s an illness.
A few:
I tend to transpose “o” and “p” wherever they pop up. Interestningly, when I try to spell “develpo”, develop comes out. “Develpo” looks more correct, though. I have a feeling that I would transpose my “q”'s and “w”'s as well if they ever appeared next to each other.
My most hilarious typo, though, came from an “on the side” job that I do for a friend’s business. Every once in a while, I’ll type a legal document for him simply because he can’t type and doesn’t want to pay someone full time to do it. Recently, he was mailing a letter to a guy named Doug Baker. Right there, in the opening line of the document, I made the only typo in three pages. I accidentally hit the “h” key when I typed the “g” at the end of Doug’s name. My buddy got pissed, but I laughed my ass off for a good twenty minutes. It’s not like I couldn’t retype it.
Spoiler:
Put an “h” at the end of Doug and you find yourself with a dough baker. I actually think it may have been a freudian slip…dough sounds a lot better in front of Baker than doug does.
Teh isuse isnt’ typs, ist lacl fo slwwp.
I sent an email with inconvenience misspelled in such a way that the spell checker decided I meant incontinence. The line “Sorry for the incontinence” has such a nice ring to it.
Once, on IRC, I made the unfortunate mistake of spelling “like” with a “k”. Boy, was that ugly.
Robin
Due to a typo by a consultant, I’ve been the ‘Webhamster’ for about 4 years now. (webamster…the ‘h’ is silent.)
How about the ever-so-annoying “tounge”?
Can anyone provide English subtitles for this post? What is a NaNoWriMo novel? What does ‘avoid making it slash’ mean?
And in the exchange quoted by Gopher, which keys are supposedly being confused? The ‘Tatclass’ message seems perfectly well-typed!
I read Gopher to mean that someone tries to back out of an obvious insult with the lame/funny rejoinder ‘Sorry, spelling mistake’, you know the keys are right next to each other so that’s why I misspelled ‘hi’ as “YOU ALLL …”.
Boy, explaining jokes sure takes all the fun out of it.
I’m an online gamer. I have seen this one numerous times (pwnt) and only now have I actually ‘gotten’ it. Some people I know use it semi-often, but I have never really asked what it meant.
I’m a sad excuse of an online gamer. hangs her head
Better than “Psycho the rapist.”
In my church’s bulletin on Sunday:
“Francis W. will be giving a flute rectal this afternoon.”
:eek:
I guess we should be grateful the kid doesn’t play tuba…