BS: The worst typo I've ever seen

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 12:01 PM

The promotional foreword on a Notary Public manual was written by our lieutenant governor. Among other things, she assured us that "the Office of Notary Pubic has a long and honorable history."

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:57 AM

One of my faves is a friend "talking" to me on a Unix machine - he blamed an error on cutnpaste (except he misspelt it.......).

Also - I am the proud owner of a TV remote control handset with a bass control AND a "trouble" control.

Kris

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: sian, west wales
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:53 AM

In the early '70s my church 'back home' in the Niagara Penninsula hired an extremely nice middle-age woman as Christian Education Worker. The local rag ran a full page article on her and listed her hobbies as, "reading and pornography". I doubt if her interest in "photography" actually lay in this direction...

Also, the local paper here in Carmarthen put up some new signage a few years back. The English read, "The oldest paper in Wales". The Welsh read, "Y papur hunaf yng Nghymru"; trans.: The sleepiest paper in Wales. If dozy = sleepy, they just about got that right!

sian

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: GUEST,Tim
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:47 AM

It wasn't a typo, but the best headline I've seen lately (Cape May Star and Wave) was

"Mobile Neutering Van a Welcome Site"

I puckered slightly when I read that.

Tim

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:42 AM

a lady I knew at the US Environmental Protection Agency one showed me her treasured stamp she had gotten from the in-house 'store'...
   It was used to stamp internal communications to ensure attention and rapid delivery, and it stated clearly: EXPEDIATE!

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: mooman
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:40 AM

Not exactly a typo but a memorable UK newspaper headline from the early 70s:

"Sewage crisis - Heath steps in"

moo

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Trevor
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:36 AM

When I worked in a department store about a hundred years ago, the promotional cards were made on site by a signwriter. The best one I saw, which had escaped the notice of four people before it reached me on the menswear department was 'Special Reductions in Shits'!

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:31 AM

When I was a kid I was given a catapult-powered "rocket", complete with parachuting astronaut. According to the Japanese-into-English instructions, "the spaceman will eject at the top of his fly". Gains something in the translation...!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Wolfgang
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:25 AM

Two examples from Mudcat I remember:

(1) 'Jew Jersey' (and it was a typo and nothing else)
(2) Wolfgang Schussel (if you click you get the explanation)

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: jeffp
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 11:07 AM

At a company where i used to work, the newsletter once carried an article on how resumes that were too wordy might cause you to be passed over for a job. The headline was, "Windy Resumes Blow Jobs." Always take a second look after you write it.

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:40 AM

Sorry, thought you folks were talkin' about me...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: GUEST,IanB at work
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:38 AM

Yes, I once saw a newspaper which referred to The Untied States, which I rather liked.

Apocryphal story from the Oxford Times many years ago, when the car factories were closing down here, and the sub-editor's original heading 'Jobs Blow for Oxford' got scrambled.

It came out as: Blow Jobs for Oxford.

- Ian B

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:36 AM

Near Miami Airport, there is a store on 36th St which sports a large sign stating that they were "suppliers to the airlines of the wold".

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Mooh
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:29 AM

I grew up in Anglican church rectories, which often received misdirected mail. On more than one occassion we got mail for the United church down the street addressed to the "Untied" church, much to the amusement of clergyman in the house.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Alice
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:23 AM

When I worked for a souvenir sportswear company that sold to gift shops in national parks and other destination resorts, we created designs that were then sold with the appropriate destination name on them. Doing the custom name changes to fit each order was an intense rush time. One artist in the department was particularly bad at spelling. An order made it out of production and all the way to the customer in Virginia City before the typo was spotted - Virgina City.

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:23 AM

Pope laid in South End. (Headline on a story about a new sewer line being installed in southerly district of city. It was supposed to say "Pipe laid in South End.")
Listing of volunteer opportunities said baby sitters were sought to work four-hour shits. (supposed to be shifts).
Story about a pod of pilot whales becoming grounded referred to this as an "ass beaching." (Was supposed to be mass beaching.)
All come from the newspaper where I work. I was the editor responsible for the second two.

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:14 AM

According to one letter I received, I used to live at
   Stonegate Condom

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:13 AM

tables, lables. . . make that labels.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:10 AM

I enjoy this kind of typo--and have been known to buy products just to get the lables. My ex brought home a double-sided multi-suction cup thing for holding soap called "Suck All" that is still around here somewhere. I found this recently on a plastic jar at a local dollar store:

No use in microwaves or convecional furnace

Dishearten the foods and hot liquid at the ambient temperature before paking in the pot

Wash with tepid water or cold water, avoiding the use of the aluading agent

Only the lid may be to carry at top in the dishes-wash

Dictionaries can be marvelous things, can't they?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 10:03 AM

jOhn from Hull9, the seminal dyslexic, with his sleevenotes for the Cara CD he generously put up for the Mudcat auction. Track number three. 'Standing in the rath' is the correct track title. The rath is a fairy ring, and I have stood in the very rath with the author, so feel qualified to bear testament to the personal intensity of the tune.




However, jOhn has enhanced the title by replacing the 'r' with a 'b'.


Now that should get the bidding up. It is a marvellous CD. I'm in it.

Subject: RE: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: Amos
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 09:56 AM

Too funny, Sharon. And boldly put, too!

A

Subject: BS: The worst typo I've ever seen
From: SharonA
Date: 06 Nov 02 - 09:52 AM

I was at K-Mart last night, in the Christmas-decoration section, looking at the Nativity figurines. I came across a boxed set and was reading the side panel of the box to see what was included in the set... and there it was, The Worst Typo I've Ever Seen. Quite possibly the worst typo of all time!!!

The box listed the set as including a stable plus:
Mary figurine
Joseph figurine
An Angel
The Baddy

Now, I have to assume that they meant to say "baby", and it was obvious from other boxes by the same manufacturer that the copywriter's first language was not English. I work in the graphic design field, so I've seen some awful typos make it to press, but I can't believe that this one made it to the store shelves!

Jesus Christ as "The Baddy"?!? The bad guy?!?!?!? I was tempted to buy the Nativity set just to have that box!!! What a great gift for an atheist friend... ;^)

So what's the worst typo you've ever seen?