Funny typos (that you may or may not have caught)

A few of my favorites over the years (a few of which, thankfully, didn't make the paper):
The walls in Shula's office are baron.
Tycoon lashes Philippines with wind, floods
FIU earned the victory on a buzzard-beater
Officials are targets of Dempsey's rath
Smith indicted into Hall of Fame
The Vietnam veteran peddles his bike 50 miles a week.

I also recall my college's men's basketball press guide referred to the coach at the time, who had a losing record and was the father of the former Alabama and N.C. State coach, as "Joe Gottfired" (an unfortunate transposition, but it was true at the end of the season).

Lost count of how often "Virgina" and "West Virgina" have shown up in copy, headlines and captions. Same with "mishit" in tennis and golf (never has a hyphen been more necessary).

The all-timer in my book wasn't a typo, but an epic head bust as it was an A1 banner for the first pope from a South American nation: "Francis elected first Catholic pope."

 

Is the pope Catholic??

 

Not sure how it happened since the letters are on opposite ends of the keyboard and I don't use auto correct, but during the MLB playoffs I typed Sex instead of Sox. Caught it in time though.

 

Does he shit in the woods?

 

If you've got the former, you'll give the latter.

 

Local high school put in a brief once looking for a clock operator for its basketball games, only I left the "l" out of clock. Ran for a couple issues before anyone caught it.

 

I mentioned this in the "Dear Dimwit" thread, but we had a profile of a woman named Penny who opened a domestic violence shelter with an alternate spelling of her name -- Peni's Shelter.
Our reporter double-checked with her and the alternate spelling was correct. We still read over that part of the story very, very carefully to make sure the apostrophe was there.

 

One of the local sororities would hold a Sweetheart's Ball around Valentine's Day. The one year our managing editor's wife was president, somehow the headline promoting the event came out Sweathearts Ball. Everybody missed it.

I was at another paper in our company then so didn't learn about it until a year later, when I rejoined the mother ship and the copy editor proofing that page proclaimed "I read it 10 times. Sweetheart's Ball "

 

Big statewide golf tournament out of our area. AP ran the agate, so we picked it up. Only one name left out ... our publisher.

 

One more from my first job out of college. I wrote a weekly notes column on high school basketball around the state. The Illinois School for the Deaf had a very good team that occasionally was ranked in the small-school state poll, and the team earned mention in the column one week. Luckily I had time to read it over before submitting it, and I discovered to my horror that I had written "Illinois School for the Dead." Fixed that one in a hurry and never told my boss or co-workers about it until my going-away lunch, when it was good for a few laughs.

 

I remember one we caught and changed: an older lady had a religion page column, and liked to write her own headlines. With nary a dirty thought in her mind, she headlined one column about helping others: "The Love Bank: Make more deposits than withdrawals"

 

"The Love Bank: Come one, come all."

Ship it.