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TEAL: Typo Eradication Advancement League

 
 
View Profile littlek
 
Reply Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:23 pm
A small cast of characters has been traveling across the states finding roadside typos and correcting them as they can. They started in Somerville, MA and are now in Flagstaff, AZ. The entries are quite amusing.

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View Profile roger
 
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Reply Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:35 pm
I checked out NM, of course. The sign they found was interesting. So was this part of the narration.

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Sure, there was no wi-fi, and the shower resembled a chamber from an abattoir, but there were donkeys. We petted them and watched a male make an unsuccessful attempt to mount a female, his tumescent penis leaking in anticipation, and it felt like home.


Makes you wonder what "home" was like.

Actually, I just love typos. What a great excuse for a lousy speller.
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View Profile littlek
 
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Reply Sat 29 Mar, 2008 11:25 pm
I love typos too.
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View Profile dadpad
 
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Reply Sun 30 Mar, 2008 03:57 am
Spelling police. woop woop woop

My god what next.
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View Profile littlek
 
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Reply Sun 30 Mar, 2008 08:31 am
Panty line police?
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View Profile Setanta
 
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Reply Sun 30 Mar, 2008 11:43 am
littlek wrote:
Panty line police?


I saw a great poster about 20 years ago, which show a fat boy at a park with a picnic basket, and a woman and children (presumably a family outing). His jeans couldn't make it past his gut, and he was showing a good deal of butt crack.

The poster read "Just Say No to Crack."
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Reply Sun 30 Mar, 2008 11:59 am
You will find lots of typos at the next Olympics in China.
One of the radio stations here was reading some of them off, it was just
hilarious.

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/3083/picture1eh8.png


However, they vouch to have that all changed
http://en.olympic.cn/08beijing/bocog/2007-02-28/1057672.html
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View Profile dadpad
 
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Reply Sun 30 Mar, 2008 10:45 pm
CalamityJane wrote:
You will find lots of typos at the next Olympics in China.
One of the radio stations here was reading some of them off, it was just
hilarious.

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/3083/picture1eh8.png


However, they vouch to have that all changed
http://en.olympic.cn/08beijing/bocog/2007-02-28/1057672.html


LMAO
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Reply Mon 31 Mar, 2008 05:16 am
For years, we had a rubber squeaky toy for our dogs shaped like a rolled newspaper. Apparently, the people creating it in China wanted to use some English phrases to make it look authentic, but no one in the factory knew much about the language, so they copied a few sentences from nearby instruction materials. The first line, meant to be a bold headline, read exactly: "Place Battery In Proper Slut ", the smaller type afterwards started: "If product falls return to store for full dollar back..."
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View Profile dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 31 Mar, 2008 06:26 am
I wanna make a branch in Australia!!!!
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View Profile littlek
 
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Reply Mon 31 Mar, 2008 04:56 pm
Wow, Greenwitch, I think I'd save that toy and buy a new one for my dog!

Dlowan, do it!
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View Profile margo
 
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Reply Mon 31 Mar, 2008 08:28 pm
Bloody funny!

Go, dlowan!

I used to make a point of correcting the spelling in the local fruit and vegetable shop on Saturday morning. They eventually got used to me - so I moved away!
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Reply Mon 31 Mar, 2008 09:12 pm
littlek wrote:
Wow, Greenwitch, I think I'd save that toy and buy a new one for my dog!


We were saving it, but at some point it disappeared. I think one of the dogs found it on a low shelf and buried it in our field. Perhaps some future archeologist will have a fun find.
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Reply Mon 31 Mar, 2008 09:22 pm
I'm not so sure if this was a mistake in translation Cool

http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/horny-care.jpg
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View Profile Mame
 
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Reply Mon 31 Mar, 2008 09:41 pm
Laughing

Well, every body part needs CARE, no? lol
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View Profile littlek
 
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Reply Fri 22 Aug, 2008 12:21 pm
oops! The TEAL guys are banned from public parks and charged with vandalism.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/08/22/men_banned_from_national_parks_after_vandalism/
View Profile dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 22 Aug, 2008 06:48 pm
Oh!!! I have found my true vocation!

Typos on signs irritate me beyond sense and reason.
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Reply Fri 22 Aug, 2008 07:16 pm
littlek wrote:
oops! The TEAL guys are banned from public parks and charged with vandalism.


Confused

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http://images.townnews.com/nwitimes.com/content/articles/2008/08/22/ap/strange/d92nk4j80.jpg

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An affidavit by National Park Service agent Christopher A. Smith said investigators learned of the vandalism from an Internet site operated by Deck on behalf of the Typo Eradication Advancement League.

Authorities said a diary written by Deck reported that while visiting the watchtower, he and Herson "discovered a hand-rendered sign inside that, I regret to report, contained a few errors."

The fiberboard sign has yellow lettering with a black background. Deck wrote that they used a marker to cover an erroneous apostrophe, put the apostrophe in its proper place with correction fluid and added a comma.

The misspelled word "emense" was not fixed, Deck wrote, because "I was reluctant to disfigure the sign any further. ... Still, I think I shall be haunted by that perversity, emense, in my train-whistle-blighted dreams tonight."

Deck and Herson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to vandalize government property.

They were sentenced to a year's probation, during which they cannot enter any national park or modify any public signs. They were also ordered to pay $3,035 to repair the watchtower sign.


Shocked
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Reply Fri 22 Aug, 2008 10:33 pm
But some signs are better than others....

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/6899/picture2xr8.png
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View Profile JTT
 
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Reply Sat 23 Aug, 2008 11:22 am
Looks like the Typo Eradication Advancement League is in grave danger of eradication.
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