The typo thredd

Typos happen. And sometimes, they're funny.

What are some of the more amusing ones you've seen?

I made this one once when I was a kid: "thron"

I've made a lot of wacky typos, especially on Skype. I'll see if I can find them and post them here.

I was reminded the other day how, when looking for the Moby song "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad" on youtube, I saw that one person had made a fan video for the song, but forgot the "e" in "heart" - ever since then, that song has made me imagine Moby worrying about a sick male deer.

I guess it's more of a Rouge Angles of Satin thing, but I personally can remember being unsure how to spell "shih tzu" and winding up with "shiatsu", as in the massage therapy. I guess it's better than "Shit Zu", which is embarrassingly common.

A local public access channel's website included a list of objectionable material they wouldn't air, and included in that list was "lude jesters" (instead of "lewd gestures") - so for a while, there was an in-joke about a nonexistent jam band called The 'Lude Jesters.

Finally, there's a salon in my neighborhood that has a window decal advertising its "Mon's Night" - They obviously meant "Moms' Night", but I was amused by the mental image of a bunch of Mons getting spa treatments and manicures. For a while, they had "corrected" it by turning the "n" into an "m" via washable window paint, but I think they rightly realized that just drew more attention to the mistake, because the correction is gone now.

edited 13th Mar '15 10:12:59 PM by MikeK

Rouge Angles of Satin are actually the main reason I started this thread. That's why I linked to that page in the first post.

Anyhow, a while back, I was reading a fanfic... and in the middle of a super serious fight scene, it said "their entire bodies quacked." Apparently the characters are secretly made of ducks.

Lude jestel is not arrow in coult of Empelol!

Hyrule Warios.

I just spelled Washington, "Washingtron."

Thanks, Obaam.

You cnat say that anymore.

Poor Obmam. No one should have to go through that feta.

Only a year until jokes about President Yomama are obselete.

Now I kinda want Yo-Yo Ma to run for president, even if technically he's ineligible due to being French-born.

edited 15th Mar '15 6:44:26 PM by Odd1

This would be an excellent name for a giant robot George Washington.

On Skype the other day, someone claimed he was a "dirty of chaos".

He meant to say "deity".

edited 24th Mar '15 2:03:07 AM by IchigoPockyChama

Well Slaanesh is pretty dirty.

While chatting with someone online, years ago, I said something about "Antarctic wands blowing from the south". Obviously, it was meant to be "winds", but the image of little fairy wands being carried on the breeze is pretty cute.

THIS IS A TRUE THONG

(meant to say thing)

In a discussion on Facebook, someone's auto-correct function changed Coachella into cochlea. I had the amusing mental image of a music festival taking place inside someone's ear.

I sent a funny image to a friend, with the message "Sext me back if you got it". I then tried to correct the first word to "text" and somehow ended up with "Yext me back if you vot it".

I just misspelled "poor" as "poop". I'm so glad I caught that before posting it for the world to see.

Wait... doesn't this count?

edited 23rd May '15 9:39:58 PM by KatanaCat

My mom's been reading a book that has a lot of stuff like this in it, apparently... including a character being described as "egotesticle".

Also, bump.

I think The Ego Testicles would be a Good Name For A Rock Band.

due to an unfortunate typo, one of my friends recently posted about being "pimped" for Suicide Squad (instead of "pumped", as in excited). For me a particularly funny part is that, while naturally someone jumped in to make a joke about him giving sexual favors in exchange for seeing the movie, I initially thought "pimped" was some new slang I hadn't picked up yet.

"Pimped" has been used in non-sexual ways. Such as "pimping ones ride" does not mean having sex with a car.

Double post ooops.

So I typoed "virtual" as "virtula" and after noticing, I thought it sounded like the name of a cyberspace vampire or something stupid.

"bass drop" —> "ass drop"

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edited 15th Sep '15 5:28:54 AM by 434411423124222344