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.

Muphry's Law

Muphry's Law states that:

When you set out to criticise the poor grammar, proofreading or typos of others, you're bound to make at least one mistake yourself.

I found this in the comments section of a blog about typos being overlooked in publications despite them having been proofread many times. Click on it if it's too small.

QED

I've not referenced the blog in order to protect the identity of the not-so innocent.

And I can't be 100% sure because it drifts away towards the end but I think there are no less than eight grammatical mistakes in Lyn F's comment.

Muphry would be proud.

Cluedo

This typo crime, discovered by Jon C, was carried out in The Library by Miss Scarlett - or it may have been Mrs White - with The Computer, a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands.

The Library, of all places. You know. The place where literacy abounds.

OK, so it's Peterborough Library.

Regular readers will recall that we've had occasion to visit Peterborough several times in the past. The residents of that city undoubtedly have form when it comes to typos.

But it's not as if the library staff members can't spell the word ads. After all, the word's there, right in front of their noses, on that other printed sheet.

Goodness me, they can even spell accommodation correctly, so ads shouldn't be that taxing for them.

I guess they were too busy playing with the Underline command to notice anything wrong.

Akin to get it right

Back to our old friend, Todd Akin, the would-be replacement for Claire McCaskill as US Senator for Missouri.

After his poor choice of words in a TV interview, he tried to make amends on his site.

Yes, Todd, you did make a mistake.

Someone must have told the web site designers that 'your' was incorrect. You can imagine the phone call: 'The word your should end with an apostrophe r e.'

So that's exactly the change they made.

Doh.

Eventually, they got it right.

Yes, Todd, you sure know how to use the wrong words in the wrong way.

No ties in USA election

Feeling at a loose end?

Perhaps it's because you live in the Untied States of America.

According to CBS Seattle, next week's election ballot paper mailed out to nearly 23,000 voters in Jefferson County, Washington asks them to pick a President and Vice President of the Untied States.

Credit: Jefferson County

So that's what they mean by the land of the free.

County Auditor Donna Eldridge told the Peninsula Daily News that the gaffe got past five proofreaders.

But she doesn't think the error will affect the veto.

Sorry... the vote.