<p>My daughter’s middle school yearbook cover was selected from numerous contest entries. The winner was a typically elaborate young teenage girl drawing. Swirls, designs, curlicues, etc. The name of the school was drawn with balloon letters that were attached to each other.</p>
<p>Unfortunately the girl forgot a letter so the year book was for WillAm’s Middle School, not WillIAm’s Middle School.</p>
<p>Exactly as with the original typo displayed in this forum, while I was working as an attorney in our local county attorney’s office some years back, I saw a legal document which had already been sent out with the heading of the “Department of Pubic Works.” I suggested to the attorney who had let this leave the office that he let me do some proofreading in the future. :)</p>
<p>@Sikorksy-I remember Yale and the clam fart. :D</p>
<p>Oh, that old missing L problem! Many years ago, AT&T issued their Annual Report, including the pro forma letter from their certified public accountants. And yes, the L was missing. This actually made the Wall Street Journal, because it cost a couple of million dollars in re-call/re-print costs.</p>
<p>On another occasion, I was reading a form document and saw that wherever the contractual language was out of compliance, it would automatically be deemed to change to conform to statue. So smart alec me sent a note to one of the execs asking which statue it conformed to. He wrote back a long note explaining what the legal implications of conforming to statute were. So I just wrote him back that that was all fine, but I still wondered if it were the Statue of Liberty or some other statue? And I added a ps to the effect that since he hadn’t picked up on the typo even when I drew his attention to it, he should be very understanding when he went to speak to his publication people…</p>
<p>When I was new in my area at work, I had an interesting typo on the work online chat system with a male coworker I had recently “met” (not even in person). We were in crisis mode on a problem, and when he wrote something I did not understand I quickly typed back “huh?”. Well, that’s what I meant to type. It actually came out “hug?”.</p>
<p>I vividly remember my D’s eyes widening while reading the church bulletin one Sunday, and trying not to laugh out loud. The handbell choir’s anthem was listed as Carol of the Balls.</p>
<p>We were having a dept. meeting discussing the international business concentration. The minutes stated that “we should have an excellent concentration because we have a gook faculty.” Obviously gook was suppose to be good. Also, a majority of the faculty were Asian. </p>
<p>It was caught quickly and changed and no one was offended. People actually laughed.</p>
<p>About a year ago, I sent a text to a friend which was suppose to read “I just got back from showing condos.” Unfortunately, the auto-correct turned it into “I just got back from showing condoms.” I still get flack from that one.</p>
<p>I’m sure most of you have seen it, but the website for text message mess-ups called “da*n you autocorrect” is one I go to for silly laughs.</p>
<p>A very funny site. But clearly R-rated.</p>
<p>Oh yes, R rated.<br>
My kids are all out of the house and I can laugh at rude things again…</p>
<p>I absolutely love DYAC. I’m not at all normally a LOL (literally) person but can’t read that site in bed if my husband is trying to sleep because I’ll be trying too hard to keep from giggling! </p>
<p>Mine (my son’s actually) isn’t that funny, but still a good “correction” one. My oldest son had done his resume and used it for all his college applications, many interviews, etc. We’d proofread that thing (and he’d had teachers and friends look it over as well) a zillion times. It wasn’t until the next year when his younger brother printed a copy of it just to use as a starting point as he wrote his resume that he noticed that instead of listing the course he’d taken as AP Literature and Composition, instead he’d put AP Literature and Competition!</p>
<p>Really funny thread.</p>
<p>About a month ago, we were administering the NCLB tests, and my co-proctor wrote me a note to look at a T-shirt a particular student was wearing.</p>
<p>Last week at a faculty meeting our boss had on the same shirt, and he was telling us that the test results had come back, and English scores were up.</p>
<p>The T-shirt had the name of our school spelled incorrectly. It was for the basketball team, and their scores were not up at all this year.</p>
<p>School nurse moved to Virginia. Apparently the secretary didn’t spell it write…the letter said she moved to virginal.</p>
<p>Our English/Theater teacher created posters and t-shirts for the theater production listing Ronald Dahl instead of Roald Dahl.</p>