Best typo that you’ve either read or had happen to you

[AutisticLegoLover]

I was updating a thread of mine earlier and went back over it to do a quick proof read. I was bemoaning the stupid virus I’ve got but it had been changed to Boris instead of virus which amused me greatly. I’m easily tickled with things like this when the typo is somehow eerily associated with the word you typed but your phone changed to make you look illiterate. My phone hates me and it’s getting worse lately with the typos. The word is correct when I type it and the bastard changes it when I’m not looking.

What’s your best one?

A few days after my son had told me he was gay I left him sleeping and went to work early in the morning. The pavement outside our house was very icy. I slipped, fell and banged my knees. I imagined him doing the same so sent a quick text warning him “be careful, it’s so gay outside” I did type icy I swear! I would have loved to have seen his face when he woke up and saw that message

I’ve typed “pubic” instead of “public” a couple of times in emails but possibly the most embarrassing typo was a tweet about, and tagging, AC Grayling a few years back, when I declared he “moistened me” instead of “enlightened” me at Hay Festival.

Omg, that’s brilliant.

I can’t stop laughing at this
hilarious 😆😆😆

That reminded me of many years ago when half the year was away doing Duke of Edinburgh something or other and the rest of us had a temporary timetable and substitute teachers for a fortnight.

One girl’s actual surname was (slightly changed but you get the picture) Whitsun, and I remember every new teacher taking the roll and then getting to her, “Er, Susan, is it ‘Sheetsun’?”, as the W had been substituted for an S on the temporary roll!

On a military base, a practice aircraft crash….
Member of staff told us with a straight face that “ the pilot ejaculated on the runway”
(ejected). Wondered why we were all creased up.

Many years ago when computers were still basic i taught in a local college. I had a mixed group, some who had been at school had some knowledge, some had no experience. To know who knew what, we handed out a test paper. One question was “ what do we use to save our work. The answer was, Floppy Disk. Someone gave the answer as floppy dick, she was mortified.

One of my favourites from Damn you autocorrect was the loved up girl enjoying the lingering scent of her boyfriends colon on her pillow..😳

I'm an accountant and the amount of times I've typed accunts and penisons......

just revisited some of these on the back of the thread. Been pissing myself!

https://leslistes.net/100-of-the-most-funny-autocorrect-fails/

My daughter asked me to print off her RE homework and when I formatted it, my computer changed the title from:
“Does the world still need heroes?” to
“Does the world still need herpes?”

We once received a complaint at work from a customer because of a typo in a letter to his address in Blackrock.

C and R are nowhere near each other on a keyboard and we suspected that the young employee who did it thought it was funny rather than it being a genuine typo.

We'll never know.

Someone emailed me about a potential guest speaker, I replied “great let’s get in him” of course I meant “get him in”

Surely I’m not the only person slightly late to meet a friend who has messaged them “sorry, just give me one sex”

I was pissed off when someone texted me asking me if they could borrow something and replied "No you can't" only autocorrect sent "No you cunt". Which was probably what I was thinking anyway <shrug>

And it wasn't a typo but made me snigger every time when my colleague used to send round her monthly analysis report. She, in all innocence, used to abbreviate it to "Monthly Anal Report"

I work in an engineering consultants office and a drawing I checked had a weld down as a " shop weld" (done in the workshop) but should have been a site weld (cut and welded to suit) I marked it up as such and the drawing came back somewhere in-between as a "shite weld"

I used to sign all work emails with my initials, and it auto-corrected to ‘dummy’ every time.

As a young office junior I addressed a memo from my boss to our very senior director to John Fuckton, his surname being Fulton. Can’t blame autocorrect for that one sadly.

Wish you were her (here)

Years ago as a young PA, I started a letter to a client, "I am writhing in response to your query..."

My boss caught the typo before he signed it, but he had the giggles for days.

Not funny, but typos not the less..

Had an ex where his boss was trying to rent/lease one of his warehouses. Had a big sign on it that said "Interested? Acquire inside or call xxx" I suppose you could technically acquire it, but knowing what his boss was like, it was a spelling mistake.

There was also a claims management place that had a sign up saying "Had an accident thats not you're fault?"

Thankfully the ex and claims management place are long gone as they both used to infuriate me 🤬

There was a time, in the old days of numerical keypads on non-smart phones, whereby people would deliberately refer to things (verbally) that they admired as 'book' - e.g. "I love that album - it's really book" - in a nod to the fact that phones would very often render 'cool' as 'book'!

I don't think anybody has mentioned the MN classic of 'boil in the vag' food yet, have they?!

Also, 'snapped and farted' and Balonz, where people were convinced that farted and Balonz must have been typos but they actually weren't!

i loved the silly joy of the 'Te Noihydc' thread, where the OP had bum-typed some gibberish or her toddler had been bashing at her phone or something; and everybody was continuing the discussion as though 'Te Noihydc' was actually a perfectly standard thing!

I was marking first year Criminal Law essays - one student wrote about penile institutions throughout the whole of their essay.