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Re: Funny typos--when bad typos happen to good writers.

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TammyO wrote:That's even worse. When you dedicate that much time to research, you'd think a proofreader would take just as much time and care with it. But of course no one is perfect.. but still.. I am really sorry that happened to you. I hope you didn't have any similar occurrences since then..
Don't worry -- it was a very funny glitch. Of course the word passed the spellcheck so it was okay, right?

Since then I've been published a lot and no, no more goofs. I did enjoy the change made on an article I wrote some years ago about concealed firearm carry. I'm a firearms enthusiast and thought I'd turn the interest into a bit of cash, so I wrote an article about recommendations for the average citizen who wanted to carry a concealed weapon -- types of firearms, holsters, plus safety and adherence to the law, that sort of thing.

The gun magazine I submitted to article to was delighted, asked me to expand it and maybe provide photos. So I took a photographer pal to the gun range and I posed for several demo pics, closeup of my sidearm (a .45) and other stuff. They bought the article and even gave it a cover blurb in the magazine.

But the photos? They'd carefully excised all the shots of me holding a pistol and instead, in the cover photo, had this handsome, young guy at an executive desk making executive decisions, all the while wearing a holster.

I laughed all the way to the bank, as they say ($1000).

Ah, show biz.
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That is a very funny story, Moderntimes (not really). Ah, show biz.... well at least you enjoyed the cash! Thanks for sharing...
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This is actually more of a Freudian slip than a Typo, but when I was at uni in the dim and distant past I worked for Amnesty International there, and sent out a whole bunch of flyers that said prisoner of CAMPUS rather than CONSCIENCE.
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Fun stories here -- great thread!
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HA HA I agree.

:happy-wavemulticolor:

-- 26 Mar 2015, 21:51 --

OMG, I just had one. Not a typo so much as an infortunate word usage...

I turn on my overhead light, get dressed in jeans and a warm sweater, and flip off my pitiful excuse for a space heater.

I meant she flipped the switch to turn it off, but when I reread the sentence, I was like, woops. :oops: HA HA HA HA.

-- 26 Mar 2015, 21:52 --

"Take that, space heater."
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