All this time and nobody’s mentioned the famous “Penis ensued”? Or is that more of a brain fart than a typo?
I usually end up with Gweb or Gewn.
–gigi, aka Gwen
It’s long since been taken down, but my favorite was a young adult short story where a girl was “peering in the window” and the transcriber left out the r].
Heck I can *write * that stuff wrong. As far as I’m concerned ‘withe’ is a perfectly acceptable word whether written or typed. I just can’t figure out the pronunciation. 
I find it physically impossible to type the word myself at full speed. Instead, I always type mysql. Obviously due to my profession. (If only I had chosen PostgreSQL!)
My friend composed a very professional e-mail to our boss, which unfortunately started out with, “Hell, Bart.” He never lived that one down.
I kind of like when spellcheck thinks I meant to type Shiite when I very much meant to type “sh-t”…
Heh, when I role-played on m*'s (moos, muds, etc.) there were always some good ones.
Occasionally instead of someone posing that they were sitting they were shitting instead. Really changed the meaning…
And on Pern-based ones, one of the common ones was a firelizard shittering instead of chittering.
Nooo, I never did anything like that, really…
Or, one that my SO did in a chat message to me: lave you!
Err, yea, I lave you to hon… psst, what’s a lave?
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In the game World of Warcraft your character can get drunk, causing you to “slur” your typing. This led to my favorite patch note / bug fix for the game: “Characters will no longer spout profanity when talking about ‘sitting’ while drunk.”
My favorite typo happened to an online friend of mine. She sent me a message to let me know that the spacebar on her keyboard was sticking occassionally and therefore her text might be garbled. Except, since the spacebar on her keyboard was sticking, she told me the spacebaron was sticking. We’ve since created an entire backstory and mythos for the Space Baron, involving other typos we’ve created.
This isn’t one I make everyday, but at work we type in test codes for blood testing, and I frequently make the mistake of typing ‘POS’ instead of ‘PHOS’ for Phosphorous. :smack:
And our Ionized Calcium is an ‘ICANOT’. We’re not very proactive around here.
I’m not very good with the space bar. I manage to always hit it before I’ve finished one word, so its last letter gets tacked onto its neighbor. For example, “why not” becoming “wh ynot”.
And another one I do all the freaking time is realyl instead of really. All of the words that end in “lly” tend to end up that way, and I can’t figure out how my fingers manage it.
At work, my biggest typo is bathrub instead of bathtub. I’ve had more than a few service techs ask me what a bathrub is and how do they unblock it. 
I too have a hard time typing my name. More often than not it comes out Krsita instead of Krista.
I find myself typing (or wanting to type) “cow-orkers” instead of “co-workers” in writings other than on this broad.
Great typo! I love the idea of a “cow-orker broad”
There’s a Chinese restaurant I go to for lunch that has “Mandarin Dried Rice” (instead of “Fried” rice). They also have “hot and spicy dishes in red” although the entire menu is printed in black.
And yeah, as a programmer, I have a heck of a time typing “procedure” correctly the first time: proceudre, rpocedure, just about every spelling but the right one.
One of my duties at work is contacting vendors to find out how much they will charge us for hardware and/or services. I make the inquiry, and they send back a quote. Except I invariably type qoute.
Of course, when typing this post, it took me three tries to misspell “quote” for my example.
Sometimes I think my brain is really out to drive me crazy.
A couple of years ago I posted about the '66 MGB I’m having restored. Only I typed '666 MGB. Considering the way the restoration went before I found a proper resto guy, the typo fit.
I frequently type, “let me know if I can be of assistance” when I really mean to say “do your fucking job, you lazy slacker.”
I’m known by this nick on a few more boards, and when I type the short version of it, it sometimes comes out Quasio, and I have to chuckle, because I look nothing like that butter-commercial guy. 
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