The worst place to make a mistake ...

... is the obits.

http://leaderherald.com/obit/articles.asp?articleID=7537

Sixth paragraph: She also enjoyed art, music, poetry and photography, her favorite subject being her beautiful daughter Marisa. Shaunas sweetness and kindness could easily be seen and was reflected in her artistic passions and in Marisas. Marisas happy outlook on life and beautiful song are Shauna’s remaining gift to us ass.

 

Guessing that was a reader-submitted obit from someone who isn't intimate enough with her apostrophe. A copy editor should have caught that, but in the grand scheme it's not that big a ... BAHAHAHAHAHAHA "ass", I just saw that. So Shauna's remaining gift to us was her ass. Truly the gift that keeps on giving.

 

That's like the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, where Larry writes the obit for a "beloved *unt"

 

Obviously they ran it as submitted. The lead: she was "lovingly cradled to rest."

My mom is not all that bad of a writer. When my dad died, she wrote a death notice for their nearby metro, and the funeral director explained that the paper charged by the line or inch, I forget, so you might want to whittle it down a bit. So I hacked at it with a pencil for about five minutes until it was half the size. It was a difficult task emotionally, but not in an editing sense. I wrote my dad's obits for their old hometown daily and their church bulletin.

 

One of the greatest comedic episodes ever written.

 

i hate curb, but that scene was hilarious

 

One time I wrote the word count, as in pitch count, and one of the composing guys changed it to read "... coCunt ..." I was out of state at the time and wasn't able to catch it. I wanted to murder him.