Revealing mistakes

[firmbutgentle]

There was the time I asked my (vanilla) partner to pick up some collared greens at the market. Not sure she even noticed.

 

[SimonDoom]

If he brought the orgasms, he certainly deserved that A!

Is this why coral reefs are dying? Not enough orgasms?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Is this why coral reefs are dying? Not enough orgasms?

Apparently, the deeper you go, the coral gets stronger, bigger. Boffins, new research. You know what they're like...

 

[BobbyLaker]

My personal devices and my work phone and laptop never mix!

Sage advice

 

[jehoram]

My own personal nemesis is writing "public" as "pubic." Gets past the damn spell-check every time.

There was a typo in a local paper a few years back. "The officer was shot six years ago, and the bullet is still in his yet." What the fuck is a yet?

That's an old story, told by a guy who worked for the Stars and Stripes newspaper. The full story is that when he was an editor for the paper, a letter came from a GI who read a story in the paper about a nurse who had been shot. He was puzzling over the sentence "The bullet is in her yet." He wondered what part of a woman her yet was. After conferring with the staff, the editor wrote back that it was the same part of a woman as her "now." As in, "I wonder who's kissing her now."

My favorite editorial gaffe is one that headlined a story about teenagers getting experience on the job as part of vocational training. The headline was "Students Get First Hand Job Experience." Shows you how important hyphens can be.

 

[yowser]

My favorite editorial gaffe is one that headlined a story about teenagers getting experience on the job as part of vocational training. The headline was "Students Get First Hand Job Experience." Shows you how important hyphens can be.

Headlines are a peculiar art form, and I suppose it is surprising there aren't more beauts.

One of my favorites was during the 'Falkland War' when England and Argentina were squabbling over the set of islands down there in the south Atlantic (Borges described the scene as 'two bald men fighting over a comb.')

Anyway, the headline was supposedly about political party controversy back in the UK:

British Left Waffles on Falklands

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

My own personal nemesis is writing "public" as "pubic." Gets past the damn spell-check every time.



That's an old story, told by a guy who worked for the Stars and Stripes newspaper. The full story is that when he was an editor for the paper, a letter came from a GI who read a story in the paper about a nurse who had been shot. He was puzzling over the sentence "The bullet is in her yet." He wondered what part of a woman her yet was. After conferring with the staff, the editor wrote back that it was the same part of a woman as her "now." As in, "I wonder who's kissing her now."

My favorite editorial gaffe is one that headlined a story about teenagers getting experience on the job as part of vocational training. The headline was "Students Get First Hand Job Experience." Shows you how important hyphens can be.

It should have been written, "Students get First Hands-on Job Experience." But far be it from me to quibble about grammar.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

Mine was very tame but somewhat embarrassing. When working on the high school yearbook, I was given a page of advertisements to prepare for the sponsor pages in the back. Some months later after the yearbook was released, imagine my parents' surprise when we received phone calls at our house for a couple of the businesses. I'd accidentally substituted our home phone number for every business on the page.

 

[MattblackUK]

Yet in that context means still. "As in they have yet to remove it." Matt with his red editorial pen wrecking the fun of everyone.

 

[Zootonius]

Once, a rather fetching coworker came to me to ask if I knew where some paperwork was. I looked it up on my computer, and without taking my eyes of the screen gestured to the general direction. Except I didn't realize she leaned in to look at my screen and I managed to poke her very ample breasts. It was both embarrassing and kinda pleasant.

 

[djrip]

Once, a rather fetching coworker came to me to ask if I knew where some paperwork was. I looked it up on my computer, and without taking my eyes of the screen gestured to the general direction. Except I didn't realize she leaned in to look at my screen an managed to poke her very ample breasts. It was both embarrassing and kinda pleasant.

Thought this was going to be a "didn't realize she was hitting on me" story for a sec, but it zigged when I thought it was gonna zag

 

[Lifestyle66]

My wife enjoys flirting with men. Every guy we know understands this, that she enjoys flirting and turning them on to leave them wanting. Some will even respond by saying what they'd like to do with her (ie. bend her over the pool table), and she coyly replies, "In your dreams."

She once sent out an e-mail with an invite to a party at our house, and my daughter-in-law's father replied. He thought it was another of her flirting openings, so he wrote about what he'd like to do with her at a party.

He "Replied All" thinking it was just my wife and me on the e-mail (Yes, I'm in on her flirting.) But it went to the whole family, including his daughter and his wife.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

My wife enjoys flirting with men. Every guy we know understands this, that she enjoys flirting and turning them on to leave them wanting. Some will even respond by saying what they'd like to do with her (ie. bend her over the pool table), and she coyly replies, "In your dreams."

She once sent out an e-mail with an invite to a party at our house, and my daughter-in-law's father replied. He thought it was another of her flirting openings, so he wrote about what he'd like to do with her at a party.

He "Replied All" thinking it was just my wife and me on the e-mail (Yes, I'm in on her flirting.) But it went to the whole family, including his daughter and his wife.

What a foot in the mouth moment!

 

[HordHolm]

My wife enjoys flirting with men. Every guy we know understands this, that she enjoys flirting and turning them on to leave them wanting. Some will even respond by saying what they'd like to do with her (ie. bend her over the pool table), and she coyly replies, "In your dreams."

She once sent out an e-mail with an invite to a party at our house, and my daughter-in-law's father replied. He thought it was another of her flirting openings, so he wrote about what he'd like to do with her at a party.

He "Replied All" thinking it was just my wife and me on the e-mail (Yes, I'm in on her flirting.) But it went to the whole family, including his daughter and his wife.

I triple check every email I send, largely because me and my wife have quite a healthy electronic fantasy life built up. I did once have a specific email address just for that, but it slipped and morphed into my general email. I am extremely careful as a result. One of the things I point out repeatedly to my college-age students is that email/social media miscommunication has been the downfall of countless people, and they'd better not become one of those statistics... In the end, we are only one click away from disaster.

 

[alohadave]

I triple check every email I send, largely because me and my wife have quite a healthy electronic fantasy life built up. I did once have a specific email address just for that, but it slipped and morphed into my general email. I am extremely careful as a result. One of the things I point out repeatedly to my college-age students is that email/social media miscommunication has been the downfall of countless people, and they'd better not become one of those statistics... In the end, we are only one click away from disaster.

When my wife and I were newly married, I was on deployment and we would back and forth to stay in touch.

One time, I sent her a steamy email that was pretty explicit, but I got the email address wrong. The person replied back that I got the wrong address. I was a little embarrassed by that, but they were gracious about it.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

I had an distraught client looking for his overdue shipment. I had to hunt it down, and I discovered what he wanted had been back-ordered, but it had just come in. So I told the shipper to get it to him as fast as he could.

I quickly popped off an email, and instead of "Your order will ship tomorrow," I typed, "Your order will shit tomorrow."

He wrote back, "Sounds messy."

But at least he was able to laugh about it.