h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Recently i placed an advert in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) for Salaried GPs and fell foul of the dread spell checker.

i received an email from a collegue asking me when it was going to be in the said publication my reply certainly raised the odd eyebrow as i spellchecked by hitting accept, accept, accept, send

i told him it "...will be inserted in his bum next week"

i also am the proud manager of a mullet professional team.

Any other examples?

No, but thanks for making me chuckle!

awww come on... someone else must have examples!!!

My college roommate would forever postpone his essays until the last possible moment, then spend all night writing them. Unfortunately this was when personal computers were still fairly rare, and by having one I was nominated to work the software and run the spell check.

So he woke me up at about 4:00 AM to run the spell check. Needless to say, I did not pay much attention to what I was doing, I was somewhat frustrated that he couldn't figure out how to click "Change" or "Ignore" himself, and the paper was loaded with simple mistakes. I got into rythym of clicking, and noticed a moment too late when the philosopher Kirkegaard was changed to a variety of polish sausage. Since I did not know how to spell the name of the sausage (still don't) I couldn't search for it, so I never mentioned it. He turned his paper in that way.

I am quite confident that it did not make any difference in the quality of the paper.

I'm so lucky to be, for some reason, ok with spelling, and not to need to have anything to do with spell-checkers. I tried one once, and concluded that, for me, they're just for entertainment. They certainly liven up my local paper (Donegal Democrat, but for that read East London Advertiser or probably any local paper). But I don't know why they can't get a person to check it (for maybe 1 extra hour's wages a week?) I don't suppose the people concerned always find it amusing.

I'd like to do some cartoons, ideally a regular series, illustrating newspaper errors, called 'News from the spell-checker'. Any ideas for publications to send examples to?