Archive for April, 2007

PostHeaderIcon two typos in the Buffalo News

PostDateIcon April 25th, 2007 | PostAuthorIcon Author: Thomas

The first typo is “pellet funs” should be “pellet guns”. The second typo is the missing punctuation from the last sentence.

Pre-paid bank cards will be provided in the following denominations:

$10 for non-working or antique guns, including pellet funs and BB guns. $50 for rifles or shotguns $75 for handguns. $100 for assault weapons

Seen by Thomas on the web.

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PostHeaderIcon bad IQ test question

PostDateIcon April 24th, 2007 | PostAuthorIcon Author: Thomas


bad IQ test question, originally uploaded by doubtingthomas_blog.

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PostHeaderIcon chopsticks package packed full of typos

PostDateIcon April 21st, 2007 | PostAuthorIcon Author: Thomas


chopsticks package packed full of typos, originally uploaded by Shameful Typos.

There are too many typos to list.

Submitted by Corey Lewis (through Thomas).

Thomas thinks the typos are intentional, in order to make the food with which they are served seem like it is more Chinese and less Chinese-American. Either that, or the words were scanned in by an OCR (optical character recognition) scanner by someone who doesn’t proofread English very well.

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