Your typical typos

Oh yea. Always have to stop myself on thanks. But not <<< this time!

 

Thnaks

 

I entered my first spelling bee regional (or whatever it was...the one that eventually ends up on TV) in 7th grade.
It was held at the school, and we had a huge auditorium. The kids were on stage, judges in the front row and parents, friends, the janitor, etc. where in the crowd.
Kids were breezing through their first-round words. I finally get up and am given my word.
'Oh, what an easy word,' I think. 'I'll just blurt it out.'
"A-M-I-N-A-L. Animal."
I walk off the stage in shock...and never entered another spelling bee contest again.

 

One really bad one from about 25 years ago from a high school football Friday night. I wasn't responsible for it, but had a front-row seat.

One of the games of the week was being covered by a prep writer whose copy usually arrived quickly but always needed a lot of editing. This time, either the game was slow or he had computer problems, and the story didn't arrive until a few minutes before deadline. One of the teams had a star running back named Reggie Cook.

The Friday night sports slot (who always filled in because the regular slot wanted to go out drinking on Friday nights and would schedule himself for an office day) issued the order: "Slap a headline on it and send it. We're not gonna blow deadline." Wasn't even enough time to make a proof of the page.

Well, we made deadline, but Reggie Cook's last name was misspelled in the worst way possible -- in the second paragraph, on page 1C.

The paper got complaints from the kid's parents, coaches, friends, principal and who knows who else. Nobody was fired, but the slot person never again was scheduled for that role on a Friday night.

 

Cock, kook or gook? I'm guessing the first, but kook or gook could be considered worse.

 

Or maybe Coon.

 

I have occasion to type angle a lot and it frequently comes out at angel.

Vombatus, I was going for therapeutic here. Trying to use my power for good.

 

at ≠ as

 

Your first guess is correct -- reporter typed in a "c" instead of an "o." But there sure are a lot of bad possibilities in that name.

 

Clearly I have a problem with words that begin with a.

 

This guy knows how you feel.

 

That's quality right there.