typos

[dispatch]

working in roadside assistence we see and hear about some crazy stuff, but this, even though it was a typo, took the cake

towing request for a Masaradi 626

didn't make too many of those!

have any of you seen typos/mix ups that have made you cock your eyebrow and think "what if?" or just WTF?

[ladodger34]

How about this for a closed captioning thing on SportsCenter?

"In the jab knees league..."

It was about a japanese ballplayer doing something in the JAPANESE league. After a WTF? in my brain for a few seconds, I figured it out.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Saw a sign on a fence around a car lot:

"Warning! Viscous dog!"

All I could think was "Yuck!" I about wet my pants laughing at that.

[sportsmom]

I just saw something about a county (I think in FL, but I am not sure) having to reprint all of their ballots for the upcoming elections because they left the "l" out of "public."

That made me laugh. I guess I'm immature that way.

[protege]

towing request for a Masaradi 626

Badge-engineering at it's finest

But seriously, mistakes like that are pretty common. Hang around any auto parts store long enough, and you'll hear some interesting things from customers.

Then there are things like this:

http://riceboypage.com/shame/hall_of...lofshame8.html

Scroll down to the 3rd and 4th photo.

[MadMike]

I just saw something about a county (I think in FL, but I am not sure) having to reprint all of their ballots for the upcoming elections because they left the "l" out of "public."

That made me laugh. I guess I'm immature that way.

That one was in yesterday's newspaper, and I got a chuckle out of it too.

A buddy of mine, who happens to be the boyfriend of a former member and another close friend, was chatting with me on MSN last year, shortly after the Halloween party they had. I had taken my digital camera along and taken quite a few pictures (including a few I dare not post here -- things got a little... fun), and he asked me if he could get a copy. He wanted me to burn them to a CD for him, as I had done before with their daughter's birthday party. He meant to type, "Can you make me a disc?", but he missed the "s". And being the smartass I am, I asked him, "Why? Did yours fall off?"

When we got together at the bar later that week, he told me that he saw his mistake as soon as he hit the enter key, and just knew I was going to come up with some smartass comment. Sure enough, I didn't disappoint.

[dispatch]

Hang around any auto parts store long enough, and you'll hear some interesting things from customers.

so have you had people ask about parts for their ford corvettes and pontiac sunflowers?

[repsac]

Parking Avaliable
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In my old Lowe's Parking lot. (This had been badly painted over to fix.)

SOTP
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On an Air Canada baggage sticker.

This Baggage has been X-Rated at point of origin.
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In a resturant.

"Customers who consider our waitresses uncivil ought to see the
manager."

My gods...is he worse!?
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"Trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
"-- Sisters of Mercy"
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At a number of military bases:

"Restricted to unauthorized personnel."

Hey, I'm unauthorized. Does that mean only I can go there?
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Also in a parking lot.

"Violators will be enforced and Trespassers will be violated."
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"Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual
light is extinguished."
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"Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own
graves."
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"Take Notice: When this sign is under water the road is impasable."
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Funniest scanner-caused phrase:
“puke code modulation”
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[RecoveringKinkoid]

Oh, I just remembered a classic.

A friend lived in a slummy, ancient apartment building downtown, and one of the many colorful characters that lived in that building was a deaf old man in one of the downstairs units. He had trouble hearing people banging on his door. So when you entered the building, the first door you saw had this sign hanging on it:

Kock Hard

[dispatch]

on the kansas 335 turnpike

"failure to pay toll strictly enforced"

[BusBus]

At work, we get "corection reports". Oh, the irony.

[draftermatt]

In the state of Pennsylvania there are signs saying

"Speed limit electronically enforced"

Now I know it means radar guns, but it makes me think of electric chairs. Considering how much their fines are, it might was well be.

[repsac]

Well, in georgia it's "Speed checked by detection devices." as opposed to what? I can see it now. "Sir, I clocked you at sixty miles per hour as by this rotisserie machine. Do you have something to say for yourself?

[digilight]

Years ago we spent a few days at a crappy little cabin along the Kern River in Southern/Central California. There was a small building that had been spraypainted by vandals, they simply wrote the word FUK on the building.... hmmm we are so freaking stupid that we cant even spell obcenities correctly. Even my mother was laughing her butt off over that one.

[Primer]

Saw a sign on a fence around a car lot:

"Warning! Viscous dog!"

All I could think was "Yuck!" I about wet my pants laughing at that.

As many dogs as I have had over the years, I can't count how many times I wanted to put this sign on my fence. Or "Beware of Dog; Please don't step on him!"