What is the most embarrassing typo you've ever written?

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POKOT

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"Fist flying lesson" instead of "First flying lesson" - when discussed the first movie about Harry Potter
 

neonerd

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"just blame it on christ, he's a moron anyways and won't know what's going on"

meant to say that about "chris"
 

Originally posted by: neonerd
"just blame it on christ, he's a moron anyways and won't know what's going on"

meant to say that about "chris"

lmao
i've made the chris/christ typo multiple times too



the best typo i've seen was in the local newspaper in an obituary
the guys name was Richard 'Dick' <insert last name here>
somehow a space got put into his first name, so the obit headline read Ric hard 'Dick

I have a screenshot from the website somewhere
 

amol

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Originally posted by: alien42
does "i gave my mom a pearl necklace and a facial for her birthday" count?

lol not a typo, just can be taken in a VERY PERVERTED way :p
 

chuckywang

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Originally posted by: alien42
does "i gave my mom a pearl necklace and a facial for her birthday" count?

What does it say about me when I think of the perverted meaning first?
 

GeekDrew

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I found a huge box of new floppy disks in a cabinet at the office a while back. I didn't need them... my boss told me to put them in the staff lounge, and I put a sign on them (big letters and all) - "Floppy Dicks - Free to a good home"

Twenty minutes later, after hearing a ton of roaring laughter from the first lunch group that came in to eat, I found my mistake.
 

Ryan

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Originally posted by: GeekDrew
I found a huge box of new floppy disks in a cabinet at the office a while back. I didn't need them... my boss told me to put them in the staff lounge, and I put a sign on them (big letters and all) - "Floppy Dicks - Free to a good home"

Twenty minutes later, after hearing a ton of roaring laughter from the first lunch group that came in to eat, I found my mistake.

You told me that wasn't a typo!!! I BELIEVED YOU!!!! :shocked:
 

GeekDrew

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Originally posted by: rbloedow
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
I found a huge box of new floppy disks in a cabinet at the office a while back. I didn't need them... my boss told me to put them in the staff lounge, and I put a sign on them (big letters and all) - "Floppy Dicks - Free to a good home"

Twenty minutes later, after hearing a ton of roaring laughter from the first lunch group that came in to eat, I found my mistake.

You told me that wasn't a typo!!! I BELIEVED YOU!!!! :shocked:

For you, hon, it isn't :D
 

Ryan

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Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Originally posted by: rbloedow
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
I found a huge box of new floppy disks in a cabinet at the office a while back. I didn't need them... my boss told me to put them in the staff lounge, and I put a sign on them (big letters and all) - "Floppy Dicks - Free to a good home"

Twenty minutes later, after hearing a ton of roaring laughter from the first lunch group that came in to eat, I found my mistake.

You told me that wasn't a typo!!! I BELIEVED YOU!!!! :shocked:

For you, hon, it isn't :D

:heart:
 

amol

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Originally posted by: chuckywang
Originally posted by: alien42
does "i gave my mom a pearl necklace and a facial for her birthday" count?

What does it say about me when I think of the perverted meaning first?

that youre a true ATOTer
 

spanky

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i was chatting on aim to a chick i liked... i wanted to say "gimme a sec" and i typed "gimme a sex"

oops!
 

dighn

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i end up typing ***t it as *** tit pretty often.

and no, that's not the only situations where i link parts of words togehter so don't give me that freudian slip stuff :p
 

GeekDrew

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I also created the printed 'program' for a musical that the music dept at my high school was doing a few years back.

In some typed list...

Four
Five
Sex
Seven
 

zakee00

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lol..i can't remember my most embarassing one, but ive made the sec/sex one quite a few times.
 

kranky

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We were having a problem with a customer and some big shot called another big shot, and eventually a co-worker was assigned to write a nice apology letter.

The customer wanted a particular person (Bob) assigned to a task and we agreed to it. But when the letter got sent, it said, "And I'm pleased to let you know that Bob will not be working on the issue."

Should have said now instead of not.

Customer thought we were being insulting.
 

NuclearNed

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not a typo, but something similar that happened to a coworker of mine.

I used to work at a radio station that played country music. This guy was supposed to announce that we were giving away Conway Twitty tickets.

It came out as "Conway Titty twickets"
 

AStar617

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Not myself, but I've seen a customer email refer to the parts in his server that needed replacement as a "cock board and 3.5" dick" (instead of clock board and 3.5" disk). Wonder what HE had on the brain... :D:shocked:

In his defense, it was typed on a 2-way or Blackberry or something, but maybe that was because he was smokin' some pole in the parking lot... lol
 

Slvrtg277

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On a customer site a few years ago, I was configuring a Cisco router and the customer was looking over my shoulder (I hate that!). I went to bring an interface up and typed "no shit", instead of "no shut". The customer then asked me what exactly that was going to do for him.