BS: Poopcorn and other typos

Subject: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 12:29 PM

Yeah I know I'm easily entertained but I get a kick out of typos be they ironic or gross.

I once wrote a short story about how a typo/accent of President Schwartzenegger led to nuclear war.

I think I remember a thread here that had some hilarious examples of typos that anyone could make.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 02:51 PM

Poopcorn isn't a typo. When cows eat ears of corn, quite a few kernels make it through largely intact. If the pigs have access to it, they'll snarf it up faster than humans eating popcorn.
Sometimes I wonder how I can remember that from the old farm days but still eat ham or porkchops without flinching.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: Cluin
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 02:54 PM

Every August/September, poopcorn is a fact of life.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: bobad
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 03:03 PM

AKA O'Henrys

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: Cluin
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 03:08 PM

Corn log.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: open mike
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 03:58 PM

well cows, with multiple stomachs rarely
have any remains in teh poopp...horses,m
however are a different story...

and a non-tupo oops i mean typo...
we call styrofoam "peanuts" packing material
ghost poop.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 05:32 PM

I find I frequently read posts I've written, looking for typos and find I've put "Brutish" for "British".   That's the kind of typo that could start a war.

And of course there is "not" and "now", which makes quite a difference. as in "It is no(*) time to end hostilities"...

Those are the kind of mistakes where spellcheckers can be false friends.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 07:21 PM

A woman wrote into Ann Landers once, terribly upset and angry because her daughter sent her a letter addressed : "Dead Mom" The Mother was sure that her daughter was wishing her dead.   Ann encouraged her to accept it as just a typo.

But was it?..... ooooowwwwwweeeeeeeooooooh

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 20 Dec 05 - 09:14 PM

The spelchuker can be your friend or not:

Most spellcheckers allow you to add words but don't readily permit the deletion of words that are in the original setup.

Law offices pay extra special big bucks for "legal spellcheckers" in which the principal difference is the DELETION of the word "trail."

I suppose the reason is obvious.

The cheap fix is to set "Autocorrect" to replace "trail" with "trial," but then you have to learn that if you really want the word trail you have to spell it "t r a i l Ctl-Z."

(It's funnier when it's happened to someone you know.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 02:45 AM

I had a friend who had a couple of daschund puppies that ate a beanbag.

Poopcorn.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: Midchuck
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 10:17 AM

Back when lawyers dictated letters to secretaries who typed them on typewriters, a lawyer I knew dictated a letter to a client about a forthcoming trial, in which he said, "...as you know, liability in this matter is in our favor..." The secretary typed it "...my ability in this matter..." The lawyer had her fix it, even though he really thought it was correct as typed, he didn't want to appear immodest.

I also bought a bicycle, made in Japan, with instruction booklet printed there as well. It contained one reference to the "shitting mechanism." I think they meant "shifting," but it might have had optional features I never figured out how to use.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: Metchosin
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 11:34 AM

Once, with my teacher looking over my shoulder, I typed "shit lick" instead of "shift lock" on a timed typing test. As I was one of the very few students who managed to fail typing, it was one of the typos I've never forgotten. It also sealed forever my inability to look anywhere, other than at my fingers, when I press keys and even that doesn't help much.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 12:14 PM

there was also the Devils Bible in 1580 where the NOT was left out of the sixth commandment.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 07:47 PM

"...And the monk cried when he went back to the original texts and learned that the word was 'celebRate'..."

???

John

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: GUEST,AR282
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 09:20 PM

I type "out" for "our" almost every time.

Better hope I don't write for CSNY. "Outhouse is very, very, very fine house!"

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 09:27 PM

Many many years ago, when I was young and silly, I worked for the Oz branch of a multi-national tyre company. I once typed a letter that was checked by my boss, and by his boss, and I think by HIS boss.....but it still went off to the US advising of the dates of the "Christmas shitdown" instead of the "Christmas shutdown"!

I believe it caused great hilarity on both sides of the Pacific.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: GUEST,AR282
Date: 21 Dec 05 - 11:19 PM

As a tech writer, I run across some funny ones a lot such as, "Install wrench on nut and turn cockwise." That one went around the office for months.

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: Flash Company
Date: 22 Dec 05 - 10:15 AM

As someone else said, in the days when secretaries took dictation, I once received a letter for signature addressed to 'Scottish Lighthouse, Manchester' instead of 'Scottish Life House'.
Mind you, one word, two meanings can be a problem, one of my girls in the building industry once said 'I hate doing John's dictation, every time he says 'erection' I blush!'

FC

Subject: RE: BS: Poopcorn and other typos
From: GUEST,frogprince, in Minnesota
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 06:45 PM

Seminary chapel service, about 1972: The student leading for the day passed out words for a new song; the melody was easy, and everyone was joining in heartily by the time we came to the line,
"I'm blind, and cannot wee"...