This week's best 'Typo'

Subject: This week's best 'Typo'
From: bubblyrat
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 10:22 AM

I have seen lots of "typos" lately ,especially in the national press , ie The Times ; this week , however , I have been amused to read , in a boating magazine called "Waterways World" , that Oscar Wilde wrote
" The Ballard Of Reading Goal " ; anyone else seen any good ones recently ??

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 10:51 AM

Right here on MUdcat when I was using my voice recognition program:

Had a wonderful osteopath Dick manipulation ...

Supposed to be "osteopathic manipulation...!!

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: kendall
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 11:04 AM

I walked into a country store and saw a sign that said DICKS WORMS AND CRAWLERS. (Fishing supplies)
I asked the owner what a new dick would cost and he just stared at me.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 12:04 PM

For years and year I kept an advert from the Daily Mirror in my wallet. It was for a device that removed unwanted hair from 'Nose and ars' :-)

DtG

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 12:20 PM

In a memo, I saw "it is a mute point", (rather than a moot point).

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: bubblyrat
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 12:48 PM

Well, I used to work part-time in a pub ;they had signs put up that said ( I kid you not ) "Strickly No Smoking " !! And yesterday ,we had a visiting surveyor to look at our leaky roof , who said that things were looking "omniverous" ; Mrs Malaprop lives !!

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 01:31 PM

A line in the local "news"paper this week read, in part, "...buy a politician...."

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bert
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 02:09 PM

bubblyrat,

Was your surveyor a Cockney? If so then it was probably inverted snobbery rather than a malapropism.

Words of three syllables or more are often deliberately mispronounced and if you should use such a word correctly you are quite likely to be met with a remark such as "We had one of those and crossed it with a Flemish Giant" or "We had one of those but the wheels fell off".

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 02:39 PM

Many years ago at a main entrance to a system of lumbering roads on a horse trailer in moose country during moose hunting season... "Moose hauled by whores $20".

My old man told me to pull over so he could get a look at the whores in case... nevermind... bad joke.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 02:47 PM

My personal bests - because I did these myself (though secretly I blame the typewriter) - are:

Westmonster

and

The Dike of Norfolk

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 02:56 PM

This thread reminds me of something I read in Readers' Digest (so it must be true...) eons ago when I was young. A newspaper printed a story wherein they alluded to "Sgt. So-&-So of the defective branch of the police force" - which drew fierce complaint from the precinct in question. So next day they published an apology:

We regret the misprint from the previous edition and apologize unreservedly to Sgt. So-&-So for any unintended misinformation. We meant, of course, to say "Sgt. So-&-So of the detective branch of the police farce".

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 03:02 PM

We calls 'em YPTOs.

~S~

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 03:11 PM

LOL! My mom was like that - instead of footnotes, she'd type offtnotes. It got to be a family tradition -

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 03:30 PM

I used to frequently pass a handmade sign that said

NITE CRALLERS

put up by another guy selling fish bait.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 04:12 PM

I like that "mute point." Needed after all that political gabbling on TV.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 04:12 PM

Thread drift... I have a pic of a sign on the ground at one of the ferry terminals I used to work at... "Caution - falling objects"

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 04:15 PM

Better than seeing it in an airport...

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: gnu
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 04:34 PM

Hehehehe.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 05:33 PM

As a lecturer who has to mark many hundreds of essays in a year, it's the typos that keep me going;

1. In a legal essay quoting the exact wording of a section of law "harmed by an ant or an omission"

2. In an essay on international law and ethics "There were many abuses of human rights during the Chinese evolution"

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 06:09 PM

Not 'exactly' a typo, but...

A hardware store near me once acquire some used wine barrels. They cut some in half to sell as 'planters', and left they others uncut.
They put up a sign saying:

"Wine barrels...half barrels $27, full barrels $50"

I just got a blank stare when I asked for a "full" one.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: nager
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 10:36 PM

I think my favourite was from the London Times many, many years ago. The newspaper reported on a tour through London by Queen Victoria... it should have read "From her carriage, Queen Victoria waved to the crowd as she PASSED over London Bridge..."
No doubt many people wet their pants when they read what was published!!!

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: BlueJay
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 02:42 AM

More of a translation error, but I had a 1982 Toyota Pickup, diesel engine, (hence, two batteries). There was a sticker on the radiator frame, instructing that if electricalservice was needed, it was necessary to "disconnect these both batteries".

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: bubblyrat
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 06:05 AM

Recently, The Times did a piece about our soldiers out in Afghanistan, and how the specialists were kept busy " diffusing" home-made bombs.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 08:59 AM

I still have an old newspaper clipping from several years ago advertising a local furniture store that was "open to pubic."

My kind of establishment...

Jay

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 09:26 AM

Don't know about "this week's"; but we seem to have drifted a bit. So anyone else remember that display ad in Melody Maker a good while back now for a concert by Ewan MacColl and Percy Seeger?

As for schoolkid howlers: following guaranteed genuine from my own teaching days ~~

"All her friends loved her because she was so well-manured" [hint for perfume-manufacturers here?].

Frequent references to people "raped in blankets"; but only one which related that "the captain spent the whole night on the bride until relieved by the mate".

And [this one dateable] on Bobby Charlton, who "played for England in the World Cup. His brother Jackie also played in the WC."

~Michael~

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: redhorse
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 01:48 PM

I remember reading in the Guardian an extremely unfortunate reference to the Asssociation of County Archiists..............

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 02:33 PM

My all-time favorite is also from some years ago; a small town newspaper announced what was meant to be a pot luck supper at a local church.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bert
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 04:18 PM

Nager,

The way I heard that one was that "Queen Victoria pissed through the Admiralty Arch"

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 05:51 PM

There was a review of Bryan Bowers in the Washington Post years ago which proclaimed him one of the greatest players of the "idle harp".

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Joe_F
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 08:58 PM

The worst typo I ever encountered in my career as a copyeditor was in an article on modeling the spread of AIDS. "Viral counts were high" appeared without the o.

Leo Rosten is said to have begun an article in Look magazine with "As therapists are well aware" and seen it appear in print as "As the rapists are well aware".

The many versions of the one about Queen Victoria lead me to suspect that it is apocryphal. In the version I heard, she dedicated a new bridge in Manchester, and the Times reported "Her Majesty cut the ribbon and pissed over the bridge". That one at least deserves high marks for surrealism.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Dec 11 - 09:11 PM

This thread used to be about me and then I got...

...spell-check!!!

B~

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Dec 11 - 03:35 AM

spell-check passes lotsa' stuff, including one of my most used words, "fro" & only a day or so back it let me post a message thanking one of the Mudcat womenz using an incomplete word - 'he' instead of 'her'

oops

sandra

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: GRex
Date: 05 Dec 11 - 05:33 AM

For constant typos watch live sub-titles on UK television.

My favourite from BBC1 earlier this year, re young children having regular eye tests, stated 'Children as young as 5 should be taken regularly to see an obstetrician.'

               GRex

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bainbo
Date: 05 Dec 11 - 03:29 PM

I've just this minute burst out laughing while reading a listings magazine. Not so much a typo, though - more plain ignorance. While being told about open-air screenings of Christmas films, we are reassured that the organisers "are erecting a marquis to keep off the elements".

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Dec 11 - 07:08 PM

The ads that pop up with this thread just offered to sell me wooden barrels like I posted about above.... *sigh* ,,,but no "full" ones

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 05 Dec 11 - 07:23 PM

Here in New England I see a lot of ads for "3 draw chests" as that's how a lot of New Englanders pronounce "drawer".

In the day's weather box on the front of a newspaper once I chuckled to see "shitting winds". "Pubic" instead of "public" is also fairly common, but very amusing just the same.

Recently in a local rag I read of the journalist's desire to "peek the reader's interest" instead of "pique". I really just wonder if any of these people actually READ much of anything...truly disappointing in someone who professes to be a writer.

Linn

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Michael
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 05:15 AM

A friend who was a sub editor on a local paper was made redundant as the reporters enter their own text directly and no one checks it.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Allan C.
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 05:55 AM

There is a carefully painted and lighted sign overlooking a street corner near my house. It reads as follows:

WE CAN'T AFFORD TO SUPPORT ILLEGALS WHO SNEEK ACROSS OUR BOARDERS


This is the second sign of the sort on that spot. The first one was without spelling errors, but was a bit more inflammatory.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Mo the caller
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 06:11 AM

It's surprising how what is glaringly obvious when reading someone else's post slip from brain to fingers as heard rather than correctly spelled. There, their and they're. Must be a different brain path used when reading and typing. I'm sure I make more mistakes typing than I used to with a pen.
My mother used to type and copy what became notorious as the Hoover Hymnsheets because she roneod them on the back of old letters at work. They were full of misspellings which caused much merriment in the Youth Club.
There you go - I typed that as Hymnshhets - the brain knew there was a double letter, fingers jumped the gun.

Now, must remember the preview button.

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Allan C.
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 06:02 AM

Er... speaking of typo's: "she roneod them on the back of old letters"

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: frogprince
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 11:24 AM

Speaking of hymnsheets: picture the whole student body of a small seminary, singing in chapel with printouts provided by one student who wanted to introduce everyone to a new song. Then picture them all coming to the line, "I'm blind and cannot wee".
(Crimeny, somehow that got to be 37 years ago.)

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: Baz Bowdidge
Date: 07 Dec 11 - 01:01 PM

Clues on 'Only Connect' BBC4 this week if typing a key to the right:
DYE > FUR
RUST > TIDY
WAXIER > ESCORT
SWEET > DERRY
This was the Final of PM;U VPMMRVY (on iPlayer for next 4 days)

I always remember 'white' became '*hite' if 'w' slipped a row.

Baz

Subject: RE: This week's best 'Typo'
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 08 Dec 11 - 04:48 AM

From Jeremy Clark's column in this weeks' Spectator ~~

---'A race through the subways and streets of Paris anuses.' Startled, I reread the sentence. Surely that couldn't be right. To pass the time I was flicking through a programme of December's films at the local art-house cinema. The sentence came in a synopsis of a French crime thriller. Then I realised it was a misprint and should have read, 'A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues'.---

Must be the winner of the thread title challenge; as well as qualifying for it absolutely.

~Michael~