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Thread: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

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    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    Quote Originally Posted by Blue Dwr View Post
    When working to find new electronic component suppliers in Asia, I once met with a guy from a company named "Fuk Hing Resistors";. No typo. I kept the business card for years afterwards!
    There were a couple of Chinese restaurants in Manchester when i briefly worked there in the 70s.
    No typos, they were the Wan King and Fu King.

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    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    I had a student who’s name was Phu Cu Son

    Made me laugh out loud and was even more funny because the local admin staff couldn’t understand why I thought it was so funny

  3. #28

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    Seen ‘pubic affairs’ crop up a couple times.

  4. #29

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    I asked a good friend to proof check a local history book I wrote. I included him in the credits.

    It was only after I had sent out hundreds of books that someone pointed out that I had written "...and grateful thanks to Alan ........... for poof-reading the m****cript'

    Another typo that appear in a newspaper hangs round my neck like an albatross. I lived in the Midlands for ten years and handled the press releases every quarter for a big organisation. I was also a keen cyclist and on the day of publication, I rode round Salop picking up the newspapers to collect the releases that made it into print. I digress. One write-up followed a particularly important event. Instead of writing that it was a 'milestone in company history', the West Midlands was informed of the company's 'millstone'.
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  5. #30

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    ^^^^^^^That's the first time I've seen any censorship on this forum!
    Twice!!!

  6. #31

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    People will probably have heard of the dutch distillers Bols who specialise in the Dutch Gin Jenever.

    But did you know there is snother dutch distillers called Loos?

    And one (I kid you not) called Fockinks.........

    Oh and an Irish distillers called Muff.

    (It is a village in Donegal!!)

  7. #32

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    I remember hearing of a chap asking his first date if she got home OK when predictive text was based only on the letters that were on the same number keys in the early days of mobile phones e.g. the number 4 key being used for the letters g, h and i and the number 6 key being used for the letters m, n and o.
    He meant to type 'Are you home in bed' but she received 'Are you good in bed?'

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    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kind of Blue View Post
    Seen ‘pubic affairs’ crop up a couple times.
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  9. #34

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    My colleague, who has a post that involves three different working patterns, told me yesterday that she often receives emails about her 'shits'.
    Crap job, it seems.

  10. #35

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    My colleague, who has a post that involves three different working patterns, told me yesterday that she often receives emails about her 'shits'.
    Crap job, it seems.

    In fairness, the shits does tend to shift it

  11. #36

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    I just replied "Good look..." instead of good luck to an email from one of our Danish customers, whilst gazing at her email signature which includes a picture of a young, attractive lady with long, blond hair smiling on a sun-kissed beach.

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    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    Presented with the drinks menu at a Sri Lankan hotel, I noted that one of the options was a glass of Cock Burn.

    A mis-placed space and an unnecessary capital letter, gave a glass of fortified wine a whole new meaning.

  13. #38

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    Quote Originally Posted by The Bloop View Post
    Presented with the drinks menu at a Sri Lankan hotel, I noted that one of the options was a glass of Cock Burn.

    A mis-placed space and an unnecessary capital letter, gave a glass of fortified wine a whole new meaning.
    Did you make a rash decision and order it?

  14. #39

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    There is a Chines takeaway near me, in Ynysybwl, called the Fu Kwai.

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    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    I used to work with a guy called Clint (Surname) and in those days we wrote reports long hand. You can imagine the result if his name was involved.

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    Not so much a typo but we had this really difficult and demanding client and she sent us an email making a list of ridiculous demands, which wasnt uncommon.

    My boss replied internally, or so he thought, saying in the email "I dont know what planet she is on" but failed to remove her from the email.

    She replied "Hello Simon, I am from the planet Earth"

  17. #42

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    It's a joke, but it made me laugh....

    A guy sends a text to his next-door neighbor:
    "Bob, I'm sorry. I've been riddled with guilt and I have to confess: I have been helping myself to your wife when you're not around, probably more than you. I know it's no excuse but I don't get it at home. I can't live with the guilt any longer. I hope you'll accept my sincerest apology. It won't happen again."

    Feeling outrage and betrayed, Bob grabs his gun, goes into the bedroom, and without a word, shoots his wife.

    Moments later the guy gets a second text: "Really should use spell check! That should be "wifi"."

  18. #43

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
    Not so much a typo but we had this really difficult and demanding client and she sent us an email making a list of ridiculous demands, which wasnt uncommon.

    My boss replied internally, or so he thought, saying in the email "I dont know what planet she is on" but failed to remove her from the email.

    She replied "Hello Simon, I am from the planet Earth"
    An employee of one of the companies I deal with called one of my co-workers a twat in a reply to all email when he meant to send it to one of his colleagues.

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    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    Quote Originally Posted by PontBlue View Post
    An employee of one of the companies I deal with called one of my co-workers a twat in a reply to all email when he meant to send it to one of his colleagues.

  20. #45

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    Quote Originally Posted by PontBlue View Post
    An employee of one of the companies I deal with called one of my co-workers a twat in a reply to all email when he meant to send it to one of his colleagues.
    We had this one customer who was always complaining and was forever kicking off and of my colleagues replied to his latest email rant. “Here we go again. Light the blue touch paper and watch the fireworks commence” and replied to all recipients in error.

    Needless to say fireworks did well and truly commence

  21. #46

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    Not strictly a typo but working overseas some years ago I set myself the task of getting at least a dozen or so e-mails a week done in the local language. Unfortunately one early example regarding someone's promotion that should have started "I am pleased to announce..." somehow became "I am pleasured to announce.."
    THREE days of giggling before anyone explained!

  22. #47

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    I used to work with a lady whose surname was Quinn. You can guess how it was misspelled in the Taunton phone directory.

  23. #48

    Re: What's the worst typo you have ever made, received or come across?

    Due to the proximity of J to H and B to N on the keyboard, yesterday I referred to a colleague as Jabbah (reminiscent of the Hutt) instead of Hannah when trying to set-up a meeting with a customer. Fortunately the squiggly red spell-check line alerted me just before I pressed Send.

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