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.

........as a leading proponent of the miss-spelled posting, it may be hypocritical of me to as you how to spell sentence..........

.....but it did conjure images of recursive threads about typos and the return of that dreaded Vyrus

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

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.

especially as I misspelled "ask" and "misspell"

Aargh! Thwe Walrus! the walrus as red terned!

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.'

my favourite was always the businessman sending a postcard to his wife, "dear wife am having a wonderful time, wish you were her"

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.

An Asian shop in a nearby suburb once advertised the following.


Cauliflower's $2.99 a kilo

Ah! The grocer's apo'strphe!

Cauliflower is $2.99 a kilo.

What is wrong with it?

:P

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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

Have you ever bought a thousand cauliflowers at once?

It cost $2.99 to buy then $350.00 to get a truck to carry them home.


I always am amused when the 'kilo' is not folloed by a determinator like 'grams' or 'metres'.

I thought that kilo was the accepted diminutive for kilogram, click for kilometre and k for those to stupid to say thousand.

except for those thinking in binary and k is 1024.

For me k is potassium

For me it's Karat.





... I have expensive tastes.

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

Surely, you missed out the apostrophe, Martin?

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!!!!!

<ATTENTION OLD JOKE ASSAULT {includes BAD TASTE}>

<Is a root vegetable a prostitute in a coma?>

<exits stage left to try to rectify problem with chocolate overdose attempt number 15275>

Sign in mens wear store Our Pants are 20% off
Does that mean they are around their ankles?

Leather goods store who advertised all our stock slashed
I dont want a leather jacket that has ben slashed or torn