Biggest typo?

[Bramblethorn]

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappen...o-marathon-in-shape-of-boston-strog-1.5541268

"It took Lindsay Devers months of training and meticulous planning to plot out her marathon-length run along the Boston riverside to spell out an inspirational message for her city. But in the end, she forgot one important thing — the letter N."

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Well, if she had included the N, she would have run over a marathon.

So, leave the N in or leave it out?

 

[SimonDoom]

To think that she went to all that planning and effort.

I couldn't find it, but there's got to be a good example of a misspelling in somebody's skywriting message. The funniest would be a misspelling in a marriage proposal.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Apocryphal story, told in class by a Journalism prof in one of my first year optional classes. It concerned the direction given by the Canadian Press Style Guide (which was a thing) WRT the depositing of wreaths at civic ceremonies. The Guide was at the time very specific; one placed a wreath but never laid it.

The prof claimed that this dated from when a small-town newspaper ran a story on the annual Remembrance Day ceremony in a town with a lady mayor.

The reporter had submitted something like, In front of a hushed crowd of 1,500 onlookers Tuesday morning, Mayor Jane Smith solemnly laid a wreath, assisted by Deputy Mayor John Doe, at the town cenotaph.

Sadly, the typesetter (yes, it was a long time ago) dropped a line and what was printed was: In front of a hushed crowd of 1,500 onlookers Tuesday morning, Mayor Jane Smith solemnly laid Deputy Mayor John Doe at the town cenotaph.

Oopsie. Thereafter, the prof said, one placed wreaths.

 

[Polyacrylate]

A few years ago, I had an employee whom I was building a termination case against. This often involved a lot of interaction with our Human Resources dept - is the employee meeting performance improvement goals, are we giving the benefit of the doubt, etc. So HR had agreed with me that it was time to let the guy go, and we would do so the next morning.

However, my to-be-fired employee was complaining of not feeling well, so I emailed my HR contact to prepare for him to possibly not come in the next day. Unfortunately, I wrote "getting sick" as "getting dick." HR had a few questions for me after receiving that message.

 

[lovecraft68]

And she will now be mocked by people who have never done one thing in their self entitled useless existence to inspire anyone.

That fact someone felt it needed to be posted here proves that.

 

[Bramblethorn]

And she will now be mocked by people who have never done one thing in their self entitled useless existence to inspire anyone.

That fact someone felt it needed to be posted here proves that.

I posted it, and if you think that was my reason for posting it, you don't know me nearly as well as you ought to by now.

I've talked before about finding a typo in my PhD thesis approximately five seconds after I got it back from the binders. Everybody who writes makes typos. Laughing with her, not at her.