<p>Anyone has a kid graduating from this school? </p>
<p>[University</a> of Texas apologizes for commencement typo | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/university-texas-apologizes-pubic-affairs-commencement-typo-183616371.html]University”>University of Texas apologizes for ‘pubic affairs’ commencement typo)</p>
<p>Hold on to the program - these will become collector’s items. ;)</p>
<p>That gave me a chuckle.</p>
<p>I have another one. When I was in high school, a boy I knew somewhat in the class ahead of me, an accomplished pianist, was planning to have a senior recital at the school shortly before graduation. But the posters advertised his “Senior Rectal.”</p>
<p>I vividly remember the young teacher who could barely maintain his composure while saying to the music teacher, “Um, Sister, you might want to take these posters down and correct them.” The eventual correction was inelegant, too: she just inserted a handwritten i with a caret. Yeah, that really kept people from noticing the original embarrassing error.</p>
<p>One of the ones that I saved from the mid-70’s was a photo with caption of a GWU basketball player “going up for an easy s h i t.”</p>
<p>Mine was here on CC. I was promoting the value of “Sewanee” and I didn’t realize that my autocorrect changed it to “sewage”. I offended someone, but another poster assured everyone that I was a fan!</p>
<p>^^^ Made it through the Post proofreaders that day but likely not the mods at CC…</p>
<p>In my work I often have to write <dock-high doors="">. Well the I and O are very close on the keyboard so every so often it comes out differently than intended but still passes spellcheck. And for a tall person could also be true.</dock-high></p>
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<p>Delicately expressed, barrons! I do enjoy a well crafted circumlocution.</p>
<p>LOL on the program. My son’s grad program had a typo on the front…nothing funny, just “Forth Worth” instead of “Fort Worth.” It did make me wonder how many points the assembled faculty had taken off over the course of these kids’ HS careers for “careless mistakes.”</p>
<p>I caught what would have been the most mortifying spell check error in time to stop it. I was sending an email to everyone at work asking them to send me their evaluations. I made a typo and spell check changed it to ejaculations. If that email had gone out like that, I think I would have just had to have quit my job.</p>
<p>And people on the '13 thread know that I shouldn’t be allowed to post in the morning before my coffee. One time I looked at an early morning post of mine and saw that a word was ****'d out. What had I said? Seems I was trying to type “count” but left out a letter. (Thank goodness it was starred out!!!)</p>
<p>Easier to happen than you think because spellcheck doesn’t catch it! I know this from my clerkship with a federal judge where I wrote an opinion with the identical typo (“in the pubic interest”) that made it all the way to the F.Supp. advance sheets before someone caught it. After that, I changed my computer to auto-correct to “public” when I typed it wrong. Ditto untied for United and doe snot for does not.</p>
<p>Oh, this thread is making me laugh today.</p>
<p>Last year before Christmas I was trying to finish up my shopping, and I sent my stepson a text that read, “(Stepson), I need to have your lust as soon as possible please.” (Substitute list for lust.) That was, as my kids say, pretty “awky.”</p>
<p>Missy, that’s funny, and Suzy too!</p>
<p>V and C are next to each other, too. I sent D a text message with a picture of my Mother’s new van that her aides can strap her wheelchair in. Caption said “Grandma’s new Can” and D wondered why I was sending a picture of her grandmother’s toilet!</p>
<p>These are hysterical. Why are mine always verbal instead of written? I can’t even blame poor typing.</p>
<p>Everybody’s done the public/pubic thing at one time or another…twenty years ago, my investment company was touting the high yield of their pubicly traded bond fund. And that glossy brochure was proofed…and proofed…and proofed…all around the office. It even passed my critical eye. Sometimes when you look at stuff enough, it just looks right…</p>
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<p>Every year at least one panicked student posts on cc that they found a typo in their college essay after it had already been submitted. Because our brains tend to fill in with what is correct, I always think there is a good chance that the typo will go unnoticed. (Esp. if it’s not funny.)</p>
<p>Missypie, you mean a typo like this? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html?highlight=clam+fart[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html?highlight=clam+fart</a></p>
<p>I know you’ve been on College Confidential long enough to be familiar with the thread, but it looks as if some participants may not have been.</p>
<p>My most memorable was back before I had a secretary and did my own church bulletins. On Epiphany Sunday the call to worship lifted up Jesus as the “light unto the genitals” instead of gentiles. Naturally the congregation read it as written…</p>
<p>A state employee told me they tried to get the maker of their word processing software (probably Microsoft but maybe earlier when there were more choices) to remove the word public minus the L from the dictionary because they were the “Dept. of Public Instruction” but it often came up without the L and the spell checker didn’t catch it.</p>
<p>I also had a friend who started the first sentence of her dissertation saying she would like to discuss a theme in “none” of the following works (instead of 9).</p>