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Best ever typos/mistakes

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WomanStanleyWoman · 16/01/2022 17:44

Just a bit of fun… I was reminded of a famous one from our local Facebook group today. A woman had posted about how she was having a terrible problem with slugs coming into her house, and did anyone have any tips on getting rid of them. Unfortunately she’d accidentally typed ‘slags’ instead of slugs Grin Cue much laughter at how she’d tried putting salt down, but it still didn’t help 😆

Another favourite is from a forum I used to use years ago. One poster got into an argument with another and told her she was acting like a prima donna. What made this a slightly less cutting insult was the fact that she’d written it as ‘pre-Madonna’. Perhaps she was accusing her of behaving like Debbie Harry Grin

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gillsareforfish · 16/01/2022 19:44

A community fair was organised and advertised on the local Facebook page. The chap organising it said there would be a Hook a Dick stall

Intothelight123 · 16/01/2022 19:45

I told my sons step mum "He will likely be referred to a paedophile" instead of paediatrician. We laughed about it.

tillytoodles1 · 16/01/2022 19:45

I sent a text to a plumber saying "can you ring me please", but due to autocorrect and my bad typing, it said tickle me instead. I got someone else!

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DearZoom · 16/01/2022 19:45

@WomanStanleyWoman
Just a bit of fun… I was reminded of a famous one from our local Facebook group today. A woman had posted about how she was having a terrible problem with slugs coming into her house, and did anyone have any tips on getting rid of them. Unfortunately she’d accidentally typed ‘slags’ instead of slugs grin Cue much laughter at how she’d tried putting salt down, but it still didn’t help 😆

Was that on NFF? Amazingly that’s the exact one I was thinking of as I opened your post Grin

Woodlandarchitect · 16/01/2022 19:45

Does anyone remember when Susan Boyle released an album and the Twitter hashtag was #susanalbumparty

Oooooh it’s caused me to laugh out loud for years!! Grin

blyn · 16/01/2022 19:46

'Pubic health' instead of 'public health'.

I've seen 'phallusy' instead of 'fallacy'.

CloseEncountersOfTheTurdKind · 16/01/2022 19:48

When I was at school our teacher sent out letters telling the parents about the new 'interactive shite boards' they had bought for the classrooms

LemonDrizzles · 16/01/2022 19:49

Infosec always becomes infosex. Every. Time.

jobsagudden · 16/01/2022 19:51

This is making me laugh way more than it should 😂😂😂

kennelmaid · 16/01/2022 19:51

Do fictional ones count? This was an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where an obituary to an aunt had been printed in the local paper "Remembering a very dear cunt ..."

MysticPeg1 · 16/01/2022 19:53

@Joolsin

There will be no hockey after school today due to unplayable bitches.
Crying 😂😝
YABVVU · 16/01/2022 19:56

@ lozengeoflove - creasing up at this, its really got me Grin

NorthSouthcatlady · 16/01/2022 19:56

-I wrote a product spec, when l worked for a computer software company detailing a hard dick drive
-routinely at work people writing records taking about patients bowels of cereal (we work in mental health and it’s bowls). Also frequent mention of patient cloths (they mean clothes Hmm)

Needcoffeeimmediatley · 16/01/2022 19:56

Blow job instead of blow dry, to my hairdresser

NorthSouthcatlady · 16/01/2022 19:57

Always popular in local sale sites “chester draws”

WhatIsThisPlease · 16/01/2022 19:58

When I worked at a small firm of solicitors we had a client called Mr Dick.

One of the secretaries typed Mr Cock instead, completely by accident (although it did make it obvious where her mind was 😂). Nobody noticed and it went out to the client.

We laughed.

Eventually.

PurpleDaisies · 16/01/2022 20:00

I loved this on twitter the other day…

Best ever typos/mistakes
YABVVU · 16/01/2022 20:01

@Nailsbythesea

The teacher who sent a very aggressively written letter home to all of us year 3 parents saying

I am fed up with dealing with wet and soggy children could all parents please remember to send your child to school with their willies and make sure they use them when it’s wet!

We all laughed and she did have the good grace to come out at home time and apologise - lots of laughter all round!

So amusing - you win LOL!!!!
DoubleYouOhEmAyEn · 16/01/2022 20:02

I once emailed someone called Poppy and addressed her as Poopy. It stuck in my head and I always thought if her as Poopy after that.

Squiff70 · 16/01/2022 20:02

Typing an email to a dark-skinned colleague about a BME (black minority ethnic group) I accidentally wrote "BMW group" and sent the email without noticing. Not long later there was a knock on the office door and in walked the colleague I'd just emailed, and our boss. They sat down and looked at me before both bursting out laughing. I was absolutely mystified until they pointed out my error and had to explain to me that "BMW" actually stood for "black man's willy". I never got over it and left not long after.

Squiff70 · 16/01/2022 20:04

@Needcoffeeimmediatley

Blow job instead of blow dry, to my hairdresser
I have also made that mistake Blush
DoubleYouOhEmAyEn · 16/01/2022 20:04

Also I sent a team email when I was new wishing everyone a good shit (shift).

APurpleSquirrel · 16/01/2022 20:07

When I was doing my Film Studies Alevel our tutor warned us to reread our work carefully after he'd had one assignment submitted about film noir where the student had referred to the film they were studying throughout the essay as the Falcon's Malteaser rather than the Maltese Falcon. That student failed unsurprisingly.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 16/01/2022 20:07

We had a letter home from school...

'Year five do not require Rugby or Football boots. They only need to wear trainers for PE'

I know what the letter MEANT. But it definitely implied naturism...

BasiliskStare · 16/01/2022 20:08

I worked with a woman who told me this story abut a woman she worked with & she ( coworker ) had to type an email to a client - She mistyped Today - so Today , Ms Client , I did x - came about as Toady Ms Client I did x - she was mortified - 3 hours later she came into the office smiling and said "I've fixed it - I pretended it was a joke and sent her an email saying dear Frogface " - It took a while to persuade her that just leaving the typo would have been the better option.