An unfortunate typo...

Zachary Hoyt · Mar 21, 2014

I was looking at upcoming auction listings today and came across one nearby that said "Due to the timely death of Mr. Brown, the family has decided to liquidate all assets".
Zach

rrlund · Mar 21, 2014

Best one I ever saw was no typo,it was the truth. It said "After 20 years of milking cows,we have decided to return to a normal life".

Moline_guy · Mar 21, 2014

There was an auction ad in our farm paper called the "green sheet" about ten or fifteen years ago. In the heading it read " Having farmed for 20 years I finally went broke and will have my machinery and equipment offered for sale"

Ian Beale · Mar 21, 2014

RRLund

Thanks for that.

I look forward to ammending it to

"After ?? years of drought"

Bob in SD · Mar 21, 2014

Maybe the kids needed the money and considered his death timely?

Chris(WA) · Mar 21, 2014

Punctuation is important too.
"Lets eat, Grandma" is way different than " Lets eat Grandma"... Just sayin'...

Gambles · Mar 21, 2014

Many years ago, my wife worked at a newspaper publishing place as a summer job while she was going through high school. She remembers that the paper had printed the complete write up of a wedding and then sent it out to all of the subscribers.....a full week before the wedding happened. The owner was yelling at about everybody who worked there because it was considered the worst egg-on-the-face mistake that you could make, at least at the time. Luckily, the wedding did happen without a hitch.

David G · Mar 21, 2014

Maybe the family wanted the money, and the death was actually timely for them.

Goose · Mar 21, 2014

I managed a weekly newspaper once back in my deep dark past.

I always made up the front page of the first section, and the worst mistake I made was one week I forgot to change the date in the masthead on the front page.

Everyone in the county called and asked why they got last week's paper. The dates were correct on the inside pages.

Hay hay hay · Mar 21, 2014

My Dad was a car dealer and once ran an ad.

1954 Ford 4 door, $495, hurry, this car won't last long!

Traditional Farmer · Mar 21, 2014

Years ago here a wife caught her husband with another woman and she shot him with a shotgun.The newspaper I guess meant to say she shot him in the thigh but the more accurate misprint read 'she shot him in the Thing'.No joke really happened knew all 3 well,the husband died BTW and the wife was charged with Involatary Manslaughter and fined $1,000.Said the shotgun fell off the wall while they were scrapping.

Alan K · Mar 21, 2014

That...is a very good point lol.

JMS/.MN · Mar 22, 2014

Was that the Fargo Green Sheet? I used to subscribe to that- good pub if you like adds and auctions.

Bob · Mar 22, 2014

"Only genuine +++++ replacement parts wear as long as the originals!"....

So your machine has broke down, (probably sooner than later)( and GENUINE parts are the key to make it last a LONG time?

JOB · Mar 22, 2014

This is a little off the line of the topic. A foreman where I worked had a girlfriend that he would take to the lake cabin for mutual pleasure. His wife found out about the girlfriend and burned the cabin down.

Dr. Walt · Mar 22, 2014

Speaking of "typos", 45+ years ago I saw an add in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Edition where they were selling a Cadillac. They had meant to say that it was in immaculate condition, but what they actually printed was "EMASCULATE" condition.

Does this mean they were selling a castrated Cadillac? LOL!

Doc

farmerwithmutt · Mar 22, 2014

I live on ames rd the bank had a typo on checks spelled it anus good conversation piece

Rick Kr · Mar 22, 2014

Couples years back a farmer ran an ad that had a picture of his bobcat and an auger it said "We drill your holes"

Only made it two weeks before the whiners complained and said it was inappropriate.

Rick

jennifer408 · Mar 22, 2014

our company hired a drilling company once that had the slogan " your hole is our goal " really ! we had about 12 guys with t shirts with the slogan in big letters walking all over the place.

rrlund · Mar 22, 2014

Reminds me of a neighbor,a gal that I grew up with. She and her third or fourth husband were filling out one of those "do it yourself divorce kits" and got in to an argument. He went outside to cool off and when he tried to come back in,she shot him through the screen door in the leg with a .22. She had to do a few weekends in jail. I'd heard that the judge said he wouldn't have sentenced her at all if her kids hadn't been in the house when she did it.

Jiles · Mar 22, 2014

Not a typo, but similar.
In my area, for many years, we have had a radio program where people call in ads for sale. I listen to it every day and have laughed at people every day.
Not long ago, a woman called in an ad for something and stated "I have a letter of [b:c9173e41fb]audiotentesity[/b:c9173e41fb]"! I guess I have it spelled right? LOL

Moline_guy · Mar 22, 2014

We get the Aberdeen American news Farm Forum, but everyone calls it the "green sheets".

Brent in IA · Mar 22, 2014

That green section was called the Farmer's Forum when I lived in Fargo area (published by the Fargo Forum newspaper). Just before we moved to IA in the early 1990's they switched to printing on white newspaper because they said it was hard to get an economic supply of newsprint paper stock in green.... It was an awesome section of the (Friday) newspaper though, my mom continued to mail it to me in Iowa all through college.

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