What was your biggest goof, typo, etc.?

Terrell Davis was Terrible Dies. Shanahan was changed to Canadian.

 

Hahahahahah I was right. That's awesome.

 

Apropos of nothing, but in my area, the covert photographer for the FBI is 6-6, maybe 6-7, and at least 300. I'd guess closer to 350. And also black.

I desperately want to do a story on him when he retires.

 

I remember my spell check always wanted to change frontcourt to "fornicator" that always scared the shit out of me.

 

When I was an intern at a small weekly, the editor wrote a story about a new day care opening up and he told me to go ahead and put it on a page, he had read it over and it was ready to go. Well, apparently I didn't have the final version of the story and his code for things he had to verify was XXX. Surely enough, a new XXX day care centre was opening up and they were looking for adult volunteers for XXX activities... I kid you not. I'm pretty sure he didn't catch it and it ran as it was.

We've had a few of the dummy cutlines make it in and we also once had a spellcheck that changed the name of the town I was working in and it somehow made it past me one day (after that I fixed the spellchecker).

 

Not that I recall. Still boggles my mind to this day.

 

Amateurs.

I once referred to the mother of the big JC as Mary Magdalene in an A1 cutline accompanying a 4-column photo of a live Christmas nativity scene ... at an African-American church.

Did I mention it was the Sunday edition it appeared in?

I grew up in a Baptist church. Regularly attend Methodist church. Have read the Good Book. And to this day I have no idea what prompted me to write that (in my defense, a copy editor and proofreader also missed it).

I blame Satan.

 

I am the author of a cutline in which a player named Devil (actual name Delvin) stole first base.

 

Blame spell check...

 

That isn't too bad. Plus, if I were an athlete, I'd love the name Devil. It's intimidating.

 

Yeah, but there's the part about stealing first base.

 

I've written this before, but we had a family of athletes named Flucker. Double- and triple-checked that name every time. Never did get in without the 'l' fortunately.