Showing posts with label typos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label typos. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

That's about what I think of squash too

From a brochure with info on a low-fructose diet:

Squash (this may be troublesome for some; asses individual tolerance)

I guess asses are like snowflakes: every ass is an individual.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Waiting at the bush stop

A headline from one of our local news stations:


Prosecutor: No Charges Against Driver After Fatal Bush Crash


This is an excellent teaser because I had no idea what they were talking about. The driver ran into a bush and killed it? Riveting! But here's the first sentence:


Officials with the Dane County District Attorney's Office said on Monday that they won't be filing any criminal charges against a Madison Metro bus driver in connection with a fatal crash last June


Oh, I get it. It was a crash involving a Metro bush driver. That makes perfect sense.


They've updated the site already since I started writing this post.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Oh, fact-checking

Here's one from today's editing adventures:


I spent a couple of years at Harper’s Bizarre in New York, so I was in the fashion and beauty industry for a while.


To be fair, the fashion industry is pretty bizarre.