newspaper typos and mistakes

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charmer

i think one of the worse ones i've ever read was years and years ago in the 'announcement' part of the local paper
some old fella had lost his wife and the announcement should have read
'i held your hand while you looked at me'

but the paper printed

'i held your hand while you looked at men'

awful isnt it..?

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The Devil In DiamanteMember

Ha ha, how truly romantic

9/22/098:48 AM

Former Member

Earlier this year i cut the following out of a paper, the add is fine in itself the only problem was that the paper had put it in the 'For Sale' section and not, as i suspect it should have been, in the lost and found section

BLACK AND WHITE TOM CAT
unfortunately dead
found top of warburton road
now at beech house veterinary clinic

I was so tempted to phone up and say "how much for the cat"

9/22/098:53 AM

Karma_Member

Richmond council were holding a high brow open evening for local residents and they took out a full page ad that was supposed to say 'Public meeting'

So imagine their dismay when they saw in massive big bold letters 'PUBIC MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY AT 6.3Opm. FEEL FREE TO BRING YOUR CHILDREN'

9/22/099:30 AM

Karma_Member

Also when I worked at local press our typesetters got some of the ads mixed up, and put some of the dirty girls under the bereavement section.

So you'd open up the paper and under bereavement it would say 'For my grandad Stan, sadly missed by your family' and then straight underneath would say 'Busty hot Shelly is waiting to show you a good time'

9/22/099:32 AM

CroctacusMember

Watford Observer circa 1989, after a major gas explosion had blown up a house killing two people, the paper planner did not notice, though the advertising agency did, a 25 x4 ad (quarter page on a tabloid) in a double pages (broadsheet) news story about it, there was a nice British Gas ad with the tagline 'Gas, The Heat of the Moment!'

And Ipswich Evening Star chart run down with the number 1 being Joyce Simms - Come into My Mouth....(although that wasn't a typo it was deliberate by a member of staff who never got caught)

9/22/0911:30 AM

Former Member

I remember when i was teaching for this lottery funded community project thiny early last year. they spent a great deal of their budget on a timetable to go out in the free paper to all southampton.

They wanted to say in big bold red letters at the bottom SUPPORT THE WARREN CENTRE

and beleive it or not the printers couldnt fit it all in one line so they put a hyphen in it so it read SUPPORT THE WAR
- REN CENTRE

they went mental cause they thought it looked like some far right propaganda

9/22/0912:53 PM

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