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Most unfortunate typo ever?...

187 replies

GetTheDoorFrank · 08/09/2020 20:58

Read this article on the mirror and instantly noticed right away the glaringly obvious error in wording 🙈 surely it wasnt intentional and dont things get proof read any more? Its imo worse because of the article content

Most unfortunate typo ever?...
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sapnupuas · 09/09/2020 09:19

My colleague emailed me about manhole protection.

But she asked for manhood protection instead.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 09/09/2020 09:22

These are hilarious 😂

Facelikearustytractor · 09/09/2020 09:24

I always manage to text my other half that I'm having a very busty day.

Lollipity · 09/09/2020 10:18

I was texting my line manager quickly and with scant attention to "apologise for seeming offish" earlier in the day when he'd walked into my classroom.

Instead I somehow apologised for smelling of fish.

MarshaBradyo · 09/09/2020 10:20

Haha at shorty one so bad

thegcatsmother · 09/09/2020 11:53

Not a typo, but when examining GCSEs one year, the question was about Genetic Engineering. The candidate had written about Genital Engineering....not many marks there then.

EmbarrassedUser · 09/09/2020 12:02

Hehe 😀

sanityisamyth · 09/09/2020 12:34

My son's Forest school letter reminded all the pupils to remember their willies.

I wrote a letter to my consultant (Mr Kelly) which my phone changed to Mr Jelly without me realising. Luckily his secretary though it was hilarious!

everybodysang · 09/09/2020 14:23

I too have had a request from the school for the children to 'bring willies' in a plastic bag. I cried laughing. It was three years ago and looking at the screenshot of the email still has the power to reduce me to tears, like the big idiot child I am.

My husband once text me to say he had a 'nice cold glass of piss' waiting for me when I got home from work. Pimms. He meant Pimms.

Brainwave89 · 09/09/2020 14:58

Missing the b out brimming as in I am rimming with confidence...

angelcakebananabrain · 09/09/2020 17:31

@CharitySchmarity

Took me a while to spot the typo as I was expecting something ruder!

Not long ago my boss e-mailed me to ask if I could work on a different site one day because my usual branch was shit. She's a very nice boss, and saw the funny side when I just replied with "best typo ever, and yes, I can make it!"

I also once messaged my son on my newish phone and was moaning about the autocorrect - I did see the mistake before I sent it, but left it in anyway to illustrate my point: "this phone corrects both duck and duck to duck."

My phone corrects fuck to duck except if I’ve actually meant to type duck, on those occasions it never seems to pick it up and I end up with things like a shopping list that includes “fuck breasts”.
lolliplop · 09/09/2020 17:50

On a questionnaire sent to me by a solicitors firm: What is the fist job you ever had

jcyclops · 09/09/2020 19:37

The police report (actually presented in court) said the victim complained of being raped annually.

ShrimpSymphony · 09/09/2020 19:42

I once put ‘re sluts’ instead of ‘results’ on the subject line of a work email. I mixed the letters up and autocorrect inserted the space Blush

Rustyigloo · 09/09/2020 20:20

I used to work for the "DART" team. More than once signed off emails as:

Regards,

RustyIgloo
FART team

Hopeisnotastrategy · 09/09/2020 20:27

Instead of typing "Neil X is looking at....", a colleague once typed "Neil X is looking fat..." in a widely distributed document.

Unfortunately he was too. 🙁

REDLIPSTICKANDNAILS · 09/09/2020 20:33

Howling with laughter 😂

Hopeisnotastrategy · 09/09/2020 20:34

Typing out the programme for a Christmas Carol concert, "Gabriel's Message" became "Gabriel's Massage".

Luckily I spotted it.

Nikori · 09/09/2020 20:43

Not mine, but at a restaurant in India, on the drinks menu they had "Cock (large, medium, small)". It's my favourite typo ever. Obviously they meant Coke.

GetTheDoorFrank · 09/09/2020 20:57

I am so glad i started this thread ive been almost crying with laughter reading the replies

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Jourdain11 · 09/09/2020 21:03

I made a typo in an email I was sending to to a colleague about a slightly acrimonious issue.

Deat [so and so], instead of auto correcting to Dear [so and so] autocorrected to

Death, [so and so]

Jourdain11 · 09/09/2020 21:04

I also saw a "No Smocking: Fine of up to £200" sign on a bus once...

PowerToTheMeeple · 09/09/2020 21:05

An old job where I used to work, the booklets for members were sent out with the word discount as ‘discunt’. The members were nursery owners and the membership manager had supposedly proofed the booklet before it was sent to print. It caused much hilarity among staff for weeks.

CityCommuter · 09/09/2020 21:13

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Kolsch · 09/09/2020 21:22

I once text my boss that I'd had a cunt, instead of I'd had a shunt.
Slight car accident on my way to work.
Blush