Ninme posts this Times review of all-time great typos of 2005. Since some of them were due to accidentally accepting spell-check corrections, I pass along this tale of the best Christmas letter I never got.
At coffee yesterday, one friend told of her sister the perfectionist who carefully prepared their family's Christmas mailing. Since her husband runs a business, their list is more than 200 people, and she had the envelopes stamped and labeled & the Christmas picture of the kids all prepped for weeks. All that remained was for her husband to insert his annual Christmas letter. She nagged and pleaded, but it waited until the last minute. Christmas Eve eve rolls around, the letter's still not done and she insists. He stays up late, completes it, stuffs the envelopes, seals them and goes to bed in the wee hours.
In the morning for some reason he read his letter again and told his wife, "Honey, we can't send this."
"How bad a typo can it be?"
The couple's in their 50s and recently adopted a couple of Russian kids, so their letter always includes references to being older parents. This year's letter began, "With young kids to chase after, I wake up each morning and reach for my Geritol."
Except spell-check changed it to "genitals."
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