No More Babys (sic)
Not surprisingly there was quite a reaction to this, with the doctor being investigated and the woman’s grandparents calling her “absolutely irresponsible” and her behaviour “unconscionable“.
The photo here, from the Irish Times, shows a local resident protesting outside the woman’s home. Nice sentiment but poor delivery.
Even now, 8 months later, stories of Octomom provoke a strong reaction.
I mentioned the large numbers of flyers coming through the letter box and how I scan them to see if they are eligible for this site.
A beauty of a candidate arrived a few weeks ago. At first scan I only saw the “availabul” typo.
When I flipped the flyer over it got worse. It started with a “Weather” (instead of “Whether”) typo, followed by a “Speciall” typo (instead of “Special”) and finishing with “Partys” typo (instead of “Parties”).
I reported all the typos to the email address on the flyer but never got an acknowledgement or thanks.
My email said:
Your flyer arrived in our letterbox here in XXXXXXXX late last week. It was actually a service that my wife had been searching for for a friend that just had a baby.
As my wife showed me the flyer I spotted 4 typos that you might want to know about.
On the side of the flyer with the pictures: “availabul” should be “available”
On the other side, the first word “Weather” should be “Whether”
In the Special Offers section “Speciall” should be “Special” and “Partys” should be “Parties”By the way, my wife had searched the internet for mobile services like yours. If you had a web site she might have found you. As it happens (this is where I get a bit brazen) I develop web sites, so if you ever consider getting a web site, give me a call.
Regards, and good luck with your business.
We We duplicate word in a flyer
We all get tons of flyers (junk mail to many) in our letterboxes each day.
I always give them a look over, to see if there is anything interesting, but also to scan for typos.
Most are error free, but some have small issues (others not so small).
This flyer is from some building contractors. They have a “we we” at the bottom. It is ironic that this error is part of the sentence “we pay great attention to detail.”
I haven’t reported this error.
Tesco Typos Tamatoes
On a positive note shopping in my local Tesco is a pleasant experience at 8am on a Monday morning – fruit and veg well stocked, very few customers and no queue at the till.
In the enthuasism to highlight the price of a vegetable fruit, someone mispelt “Tomato.”
I would normally report a typo to the manager but Tesco have consistently been brutal about fixing problems that I have reported to them.
Press Green Button For Ticket
A few weeks ago I was collecting my wife and newborn son from Holles Street.
Off to the parking meter with my collection of coins. As I fed the meter I noticed that the instructions tell people to Press Green Button For Ticket but the illustration beside this instruction shows a blue button. Are Dublin City Council trying to mess with those with colour blindness?
Employee's typo
“Employee’s must walk not run…” – drop the apostrophe and consider adding a comma after “walk.” And don’t capitalise “Point.”
Better still, drop over the to Borders Books and buy a book.
Opperation typo
As Blanchardstown Centre management have not been helpful in previous occasions, I am not writing to inform them of this error.
Recently a new web design company asked those on the boards.ie Webmaster forum to review their website. It was a bloodbath.
The thread started off without a link to the site. As soon as that was rectified the massacre started. The site is so bad that some thought it was a joke.
Are you tired of being quoted ridiculous for the design of a site. Nowadays, with the cost of internet access getting cheaper, it’s of the utmost imporance that a company have it’s own web page(s) presence.
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Tired of being quoted ridiculous what? “imporance” is spelt wrong. “it’s” should be “its”. “page(s)” should be omitted. The guy in the photo on the site looks sleazy.
TempErory
I would have thought that these signs would be standard enough and easily ordered from the likes of Rennicks, though I didn’t see this type there, and I’m not sure I’d fully trust Rennicks would spot the typo either. It all reminds me of the Irish Pride bread ad where they joke that the road works guy has no pride in his work.
Where is the E?
After finally tracking the micro hi-fi down I was looking at the back of the receipt. It talks about delivery times. And then they go any have a nice typo. They even put the text in italics to highlight it. People may not have realised it at the time but The Shamen were quite wise when they told us that Es are good.
