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Just been looking at my youngest kid's school newsletter, which is always penned by the head. He's leaving for pastures new (possibly NZ, where there a lot of pastures) This is a paragraph from his goodbye message:
"... I am still not certain where I will be after the next couple of weeks. The 'credit crunch' has severely dented my moving plans so I am not sure what the future holds. I am sure I will keep in touch with the school and will certainly be around clearing out my stiff over the summer holidays ..."
Typos are amusing anyway, but I'd like to take this one further. Here's an idea: find a typo (anything from a mispell to a badly worded sentance) and say what image it provokes in our feverishly overworked little minds. The one above certainly put a few in mine!
Cleaning out his stiff - hmmm. A closet mummy fetishist, then. Could explain why he's changing jobs - 'I've been at this place five years, and I SPECIFICALLY asked for a job with lots of single mummies. They keep turning up at my office, all right, but they're still alive! I'm told I'll have more luck in Wellington ...'
Could also explain why they did a whole term on Ancient Egypt in year 5, not to mention that strange smell coming from the kitchens ...
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/2008 01:33PM by Jazz_Sue.
I did actually spot the 'sentence' error (that one always befuddles me); couldn't be bothered to do a third edit! Can we agree, at this point, that this thread refers to print that can be sourced on the paper published page only? (or at least, is available both on and off the screen)
Otherwise, we'll spend all day going through the archived posts in this fforum and never get any real work done. Like, trying to better our score at Mah jong Titans, or finding other sites with the name 'Goliath' in them.
I have to go back about 35 years to the best one I ever did see.
A well respected union leader by the name of Athol Monk died at the end of a period of much industrial action and the report in the Canberra Times read that he had 'died of a strike.'
Our local Friday Ad is full of 'bloopers.'
My favourite is still the 35 champagne flutes turning up in the 'music' section, but there's also a regular ad by a local pub, which states: 'Hot meals all week. Children served on Sundays.'
Whenever I see roast beef and Yorkshire advertised anywhere, I get instant visions of yappy terriers now, but that's just my warped sense of humour - and the fact I don't like small dogs.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2008 03:34PM by Jazz_Sue.
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Wot? You mean root vegetables cost more than $2.99 a kilo?
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date: August 05, 2008 07:30AM
The most amusing typo i have come across was on the back packet of a toothbrush!
it was translated into english from chinese but not very well! Instead of saying that the tooth brush would clean your teeth and get rid of the muck,
it had "The great toothbrush, to clean of all the crap!" I read it and burst out laughing!
It was in a two dollar shop so what do you expect!
Although i suppose it isn't really a typo!
oh well!!!!!