Talk about your unfortunate typos ...

[Steak Snabler]

An Iowa college's school handbook contains a calendar entry for a "Black History Linch and Learn" on Feb. 16 ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26891761/

Not as funny/unfortunate as James Earl Jones getting an award enscribed to "James Earl Ray," but still ...

 

[Precious Roy]

Had a guy at a former shop talk about a school for the deaf, and called it school for the death throughout the story.
Must have used the word at least 10 times.

Priceless

 

[buckner86]

Had the word "tits," where it was supposed to say "its" in the first sentence of a story. Luckily, it was just a re-write of a press release and wasn't accompanied by my byline. The ME called me in the next day, and didn't know what to say - I think he thought it was funny.

 

[slappy4428]

Worked with a guy who once spelled "Shiite" with one "i"
of course, I'm also the guy who spelled "shot" with an "i"

 

[da man]

Worked with a guy who once spelled "Shiite" with one "i"
of course, I'm also the guy who spelled "shot" with an "i"

You know, the O and I keys are right next to each other. I'm surprised that second typo doesn't get into print more than it does.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I used to have a mental typo where I would type "red****" freshman every time, though I always caught it and changed it immediately ...

 

[slappy4428]

Worked with a guy who once spelled "Shiite" with one "i"
of course, I'm also the guy who spelled "shot" with an "i"

You know, the O and I keys are right next to each other. I'm surprised that second typo doesn't get into print more than it does.

I have an automatic word change in MS word that red flags "****"
And if you ever miss a letter in "county" you're going to need to bring a box to work the next day to carry your belongings.

 

[huntsie]

Yeah, we had a guy who reported that the goalie stopped 47 ****s one night.
And a coach who was quoted as saying his goalie is better the more ****s he faces.

 

[BYH]

Worked with a guy who once spelled "Shiite" with one "i"
of course, I'm also the guy who spelled "shot" with an "i"

You know, the O and I keys are right next to each other. I'm surprised that second typo doesn't get into print more than it does.

I have an automatic word change in MS word that red flags "****"
And if you ever miss a letter in "county" you're going to need to bring a box to work the next day to carry your belongings.

What's wrong with calling it Orange County Orange Couny?

 

[slappy4428]

Worked with a guy who once spelled "Shiite" with one "i"
of course, I'm also the guy who spelled "shot" with an "i"

You know, the O and I keys are right next to each other. I'm surprised that second typo doesn't get into print more than it does.

I have an automatic word change in MS word that red flags "****"
And if you ever miss a letter in "county" you're going to need to bring a box to work the next day to carry your belongings.

What's wrong with calling it Orange County Orange Couny?

it was actually Orange Count

 

[Steak Snabler]

Reminds me of an infamous ad I once saw for "Sesame Street on Ice."

Come see "Big Bird," "Cookie Monster" and "The Count"! (only they forgot the "o" in Count) ...

 

[Smallpotatoes]

On a jump head at my last place of employment:
"No. 1 ranking ****s Sachems"

instead of "suits"

 

[apeman33]

Worked with a guy who once spelled "Shiite" with one "i"
of course, I'm also the guy who spelled "shot" with an "i"

You know, the O and I keys are right next to each other. I'm surprised that second typo doesn't get into print more than it does.

I have an automatic word change in MS word that red flags "****"
And if you ever miss a letter in "county" you're going to need to bring a box to work the next day to carry your belongings.

"**** put" once slipped through early in my career. Luckily, people thought it was funny and I didn't get in much trouble more than "sometimes, the spell checker won't catch the obscenities."

The girl who was competing in the event I was writing about heard about it and and joked to her friends that it was a cow-chip tossing contest, not a track meet.

 

[Bruce Leroy]

We had a guy one time who had so-and-so winning the long hump at a track meet.

 

[Faithless]

Is all of this a matter of pubic record?

 

[partain]

Like me, my wife is out of newspapers now, but she often left out the word "not" in sentences, so "Mayor Smith says he's not guilty of charges" would come out as "Mayor Smith says he's guilty of charges."

I don't think any of them ever appeared wrong in print, but it was something she always had to go back and look for when completing a story.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Almost forgot one. Our former prep guy once covered a high school game that a lightning storm caused to have a "late lickoff."

 

[partain]

I also started as an agate clerk at the Arkansas Deomcrat-Gazette not long after the words "I love big tits" appeared on the agate page about 15 years ago. It wasn't a typo, of course. I don't know about now, but apparently back then the agate page was heavily read, and the miscue generated quite a few phone calls.

 

[nmmetsfan]

I also started as an agate clerk at the Arkansas Deomcrat-Gazette not long after the words "I love big tits" appeared on the agate page about 15 years ago. It wasn't a typo, of course. I don't know about now, but apparently back then the agate page was heavily read, and the miscue generated quite a few phone calls.

It's just honest reporting.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

Our ad department messed up years ago and ran a big ad for "**** Sale" at a local store that was have a shirt sale.