Typo Hunter Gifts

sign on wall: "ABC Profreading Company"

"I think contests are good, but instead of a "find the typos" contest, you should get someone to read your text."

'Your new book is full of mistakes: the critics will have a field day.'

'My penmanship has really improved since I got a laser printer.'

Someone who knows apostrophes

'Hello, Acme signs? This is the Berger & Coles Law Office...'

Woman holds report: 'This has so many different fonts in it, I thougt it was a ransom note.'

'You say you type 80 words a minute ... Actually, that's not at all important...!'

'I think there was a typo in the lab instructions.'

'I'll try blaming it on auto correct and if that doesn't work, I'll blame you.'

'Don't worry. I'm not charging you for the extra lettering.'

'No, boss, this isn't a secret code. My spell check is broken and this is what my typing actually looks like.'

'As you know, some of us can't keep up with the pace of new technology.'

"This alphabet soup is in Times New Roman. I ordered Segoe Script! May I please speak to the chef?"

“The two spaces after a period were a dead giveaway.”

"I propose the next person who says 'it is what it is,' we beat the living hell out of him."

'How many words per minute do you type?'

Man sees misspelled 'Minimum Competency Testing' sign on door.

'Nice graphics.'

"Look, look … someone wrote unoperable."

'It's not encrypted, Captain. That's just the clerk's usual typing.'

'Your training will be the next five minutes watching my fingers move at the speed of light.'

'How can you make so many mistakes in one report?'

'Why is it when you hit two keys by mistake, the one you don't want appears on the screen?'

'How could Homer write The Iliad and The Odyssey with a quill pen on parchment when I can't write a memo with a computer?'

'How many words a minute do you type?' - 'Big ones or little ones?'

"By the way, there is only one 'L' in 'over-qualified'."

Nice moves—is that an air piano or are you doing the E-Mail?"

'I can type 500 words per minute.'

"I'm hooking up with this guy who makes the funniest typos."

"I see the man who invented autocorrect has died."

Writer breaks in new electric typewriter.

'What does carpal tunnel syndrome feel like?'

'I typed it that way because I thought that punctuation would just slow it down.'

The origins of bullet points.