"We are all God's chicken"....

[Robb]

Near-typo at the paper this morning, thank goodness for my sharp eye -- although I did have to stop giggling, which took a very, very long time, and I probably came close to losing my job before I finally was able to blurt out something like "There! In the church ad for this week!!" and point wildly. :D

Shades of last year's real estate ad for the condo with the vast, expansive dick with a great view. ;)

Got any typo or near-typo stories to share?

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. True headline that ran in a no-defunct Chicago newspaper in the late 1960s

MAN KNIFED TO DEATH WITH FORK.

Another from that era, a pun and not a mistake, during a summertime strike of NYC garbage men...

NEW YECCHH!

[flamingyouth]

2. In college, I covered the world's most boring symposium

It was about Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, and there was some back & forth debate, then everything grew dim, and I think I too fell asleep.

The next morning, I pick up the paper, and there's my story, under the headline, "Dissent Rocks Forum," right above a photo of two guys FULL-ON ASLEEP. Not only that, but one of them had his mouth open and was possibly drooling.

I can't find the copy of that, but I was just thinking about it the other day and was cracking up. :)

[Lisa]

3. the condo seller should get together with ...

... the computer store advertising a processor "with expansion sluts" (slots) -- a friend had a copy of the ad up in his cubicle.


As a college instructor, I see plenty of typos -- I always warn my students about the importance of proofreading to catch things that the spell-checker misses. I usually include some of last year's misses -- the urban planning paper advocating "full pubic involvement" and the scientific report describing "frequent periodical burnings" in grassland environments being particular favorites.

p.s. my chickens thank you! I'm sitting here with a plastic bucket in my lap, containing 5 baby chicks who are peeping up a storm (waiting to be picked up by a colleague who's taking them to her hobby farm).

[amerikat]

4. Stuffed Flounder or Children Francaise were almost offered

on my sisters wedding invitation reply cards. Fortunately somebody caught it in time. Children probably taste like chicken anyway. :-) :-) :-) :-)

[Sporadicus]

5. The Podunk Picayune Paper of My Tiny Hometown

ran an ad in the classifieds when I was just a lad: seems a farmer had 'farty pigs for sale' (as opposed to 'forty'). I probably chuckled about that continuously until I hit puberty.

[the Kelly Gang]

6. " From Blow Job to No Job"..headline in the odious Murdoch Sun Newspaper

in the UK..when Government Minister got fired after affair with mistress became public.

[Dookus]

7. In the 80's, when I lived in San Francisco

the SF chronicle ran an article stating "Hail the size of hailstones fell in the Bay Area last night..."

I found that oddly uninformative.

on edit: I will NEVER forgive you for not running that as written.

[daligirrl]

8. I worked at a small local magazine briefly. . .

There was an article on the famous Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN. They have some famous ducks that they parade daily through the lobby to the roof and back in the evenings. Somehow all instances of "ducks" was replaced with "dicks". The error was not caught until hours before the printing. "The dicks are paraded daily through the opulent lobby. .. " Heh.

Another favorite (told to me by a friend) at University of Iowa School of Music: a recital poster with the header, "Saxophone Rectal".