Brace yourselves

This College Professor might want to consider brushing up his handwriting.

Especially when advising dozens of students who would be, most likely, already clenching at the thought of a more conventional examination.

Swap shop

Parents! Unhappy with the gender of your child?

Call in and get it changed!

What's that you say? Oh, it's Kids Exchange?

OK, never mind the gender thing. Just swap the whole kid for another.

Size matters

Statisticians claim that, in the UK, you're never more than 20 feet away from a rat.

In the US apparently they use a different unit of measurement.

Not exactly a standard length though.

Mixed message

A clear demonstration of the importance of typographical accuracy.

XXX-rated video hire

If you've never heard of kerning, or you don't really know what it is and couldn't care less about it, this video shop sign in Hudson, Florida may help emphasise its importance.

Father Ted

Looks like Father Dougal's been in charge of the notice board this week.

Clause for kerncern

Bull Titan US is the brand name of a range of casual and outdoor shoes.

But the kerning skills of the Chinese sign fitters make its Beijing shop appear just that bit more interesting.

Playing with fire

A disaster waiting to happen is averted only by the coloured lettering.

Otherwise, the publisher could have been well and truly flicked.

Butting in

I'm sure those Spruce City boys didn't realise that they'd have to go through a bizarre initiation ceremony to get into the local softball team.

Although they do say, if you want to succeed at sport, you should start at the bottom.

The 12 Typos of Christmas

For the final post before Christmas Day I've gone completely festive with a YouTube collection of typos from xthankmyluckystarx.

As she admits, she can't sing but hats off to her anyway for putting them all together.

Back on Friday with more holiday fun.

Meanwhile, have a very Merry Christmas!

It's the Safe Way

Thank you, Dennis A, for sending me this gem.

The earliest source I can find is amongst George Takei's Facebook Wall Photos.

It also caused much hilarity on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Party time

Well, it's MTH's first birthday today. Yay. Thank you for being here.

And thanks to everyone who's sent in the typos they've found. Without you it just wouldn't work.

Anyway, before I get too tearful, it's time to celebrate with some fancy lights courtesy of Jon C.

Oops.

Looks like the packaging designer flicked up on this one.

Learning kerning

For those of you who know about kerning, you might like to try your hand at this.

And for those who don't, it will help explain what it's all about.

You'll find it here.

Let me know your score. And I might reveal mine.

What prompted My Typo Humour?

My Facebook friend Daisy commented on this picture which had been posted by a friend of hers.

I laughed out loud and I still smile when I see it. I'm not sure where it came from originally but this comes up first on a Google search. I admit it's a little bit geeky and has limited appeal, but printers in particular will appreciate it.

I couldn't comment on the picture at the time because I wasn't a friend of Daisy's friend. But I liked it so much that I copied it and posted it on my Wall with the comment 'My typo' humour'. Quite a few of my Facebook friends are in printing and publishing and I thought they might appreciate it as well. In fact, a couple of my friends did like it and one of them commented 'Mine too'.

Thinking it would be a good idea to post more stuff like this, I trawled the Internet looking for a source and found...well, nothing really. Google came up with some definitions of typos and misprints and I found one or two good examples on a few blogs. But there didn't appear to be a single site where someone had gathered lots of them together in one place. So I registered the domain name based on my original comment, kick started my dormant Blogger account and the next day went live.

If you like what you're seeing here, you have my friend Daisy to thank.