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A charming collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen,
and embarrassing misprints, "Just My Typo "celebrates the awful and
the sublime mistakes that riddle our feeble human attempts at
communication.
It's time to accept the truth: typos are everywhere. Legal
documents are riddled with errors, headlines of respectable
publications are rife with misspellings, and even your favorite
books need a few reprints to get everything right. Isn't it time we
learned to laugh at our mistakes instead of despairing? "Just My
Typo" is an irresistible collection of the most humorous,
mistakenly poignant, and downright awful typos in texts, from the
Bible to insurance advertisements to political slogans.
Within these pages, you'll travel back in time with great figures
from history, such as Sir Francis Drake (who circumcised the world
in a small ship) and Rambo (the famous French poet). You'll also
find valuable moral instruction ("Blessed are the meek, for they
shall irrigate the earth."), and meet politicians who exploit
disasters to boost their pubic profiles. Structured according to
categories (such as, "To Be or To Be: Typos in Literature"), you'll
easily find either a quick laugh or a relaxing--and
cringe-inducing--read. A few more of the gems within:
- "The Queen pissed graciously over the Menai Bridge."
- "I am certain of one thing. Whatever may come between us--and
wherever he may be on earth--Arthur will always remember that I
love ham." (The Parting, Millicent Hemming)
- "Love is just a passing fanny."
Editors, proofreaders, and writers everywhere pull their hair out
trying to eliminate mistakes, to no avail. Celebrating the humanity
of our errors and the timelessness of mistakes, "Just My Typo" is
essential reading for anyone who values the power and peril of the
written word.
From the sublime to the ridiculous, Just My Typo is a hilarious
collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen and
embarrassing misprints which, like any typo of any kind, should
never have happened, cannot be excused, and must not in any way be
glorified. Enjoy. You'll travel back in time to meet great figures
from history: Sir Francis Drake (who circumcised the world in a
small ship), Queen Victoria (who pissed graciously over the Menai
Bridge), and Rambo (the famous French poet). You'll find moral
instruction ('Blessed are the meek, for they shall irrigate the
earth') and pearls of wisdom ('love is just a passing fanny').
You'll be outraged by politicians who exploit disasters to boost
their pubic profiles; entranced by lambs that gamble in the fields;
concerned for a man who was admitted to hospital suffering from
severe buns; and appalled to meet 11-year-old twins Helen and Ugh.
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