Posted on 09/20/2010 8:25:45 PM PDT by hoosierboy
SOUTH BEND — If you ever wondered how much difference just one letter can make when it comes to a message, ask the thousands of people who drove by a digital billboard near the intersection of Ironwood and State Road 23 between Thursday and Monday morning.
The ad urged people to go to the "southbendon.com" website for a look at the "15 best things about our pubic schools." That's right, the billboard said "pubic" instead of "public" schools. The letter "L" had been left out of the word public.
Lee MacMillan of South Bend said his wife spotted the error on Saturday while sitting in traffic.
"She got home and said, ‘I can't believe it said what I think it said,’" MacMillan recalls.
"So we were out driving around yesterday and sure enough, it had that typo in it. So we took a picture and the rest is history, as they say," MacMillan adds.
MacMillan posted the picture he took on Facebook. He also emailed it to his neighbor, South Bend School Superintendent Jim Kapsa.
Responsibility for the spelling error has been claimed by the Blue Waters Group. The company does work for the city of South Bend's redevelopment commission to promote the city.
"I feel terrible. It's a mistake we made and we're guilty of it, and responsible for it. and we take full responsibility for the error," said Patrick Strickler, president of the Blue Waters Group.
"Four people looked at it, eyeballed it and didn't see the mistake, and those people all work for me,” Strickler explained. “We take responsibility for it. We simply blew it. We did not see the missing "L."
He says he became aware of the problem Monday morning.
"We jumped on it and immediately had it taken down by Burkhart. They took it out of rotation and began to repair it," Strickler said.
"We're the ones who made the mistake, not the city or the school," Strickler emphasized.
As of late afternoon on Monday, a representative from the Blue Waters Group indicated the content of the billboard had been fixed and the digital message was up and running again.
I worked as a typesetter with the comp department of our local newspaper many years ago. An ad for an “organ recital” ran for about two weeks before someone noticed that the ad was actually announcing an “organ rectal.”
I’m sure that wasn’t intentional-—NOT!
That’s public schools for you. It is really bad out there.
Just missed spelling it right by a hair...
VP said he was 2nd in line for the presidency.
Biden also said, “Don’t compare us to the Almighty, compare us to the alternative.”
It is not a spelling error.
“Four people looked at it, eyeballed it and didn’t see the mistake, and those people all work for me,”
The really horrible thing about this is that it took 5 days for someone to report the error.
Indiana?
You have to give Biden credit, he may not be smart, but he is honest.
Oh it wasn't intentional; he's a Republican so they meant to say 'House Nigger'.
Wow, MSNBC calling a black guy the N-word, imagine if Fox did that the FCC would pull their license. Of course since it’s MSNBC we know it had to be a mistake. But then again, it says he is a “Republican Consultant” so maybe it wasn’t a mistake . . . . . . . .
Good to see them spending our taxdollars on just garbage.
OMG! This happened in the Midwets?
It was a mistake; see post 49.
The real funny thing was when they told Niger Innis about this, he said, “they thought I was a rapper.”
“Hope nobody got crabby about this hairy situation...”
Pubic is a hairy situation...
That’s almost as embarrassing as misspelling “potato”.
We had a beauty salon in New Hampshire with a sign that said “SPerm Special”
Sometimes the best signs have no typos at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria
Amusing typos I’ve seen over the years.....
A real estate ad with a smiling female real estate agent. Beneath her picture was a description of a home for sale. The ad was supposed to say, “Big deck in back yard,” but instead it said, “Big dick in back yard.”
Then there was the story of an eBay seller who received an angry e-mail from the father of a boy who saw the seller’s ad for a computer game system. The seller’s ad was supposed to say, “You need a hard disk for this system....” Instead, the ad said, “You need a hard dick for this system.”
The boy asked his father if he had one. That’s when the seller received the angry e-mail from the boy’s father.
Another eBay seller sent a buyer an e-mail which was supposed to say, “I will ship out your item on Tuesday.”
Instead, the e-mail said, “I will shit out your item on Tuesday.”
The joy of typos!
As I understand this - per Larry King takin’ Laura - I am my kid’s Mom - Schessinger downtown for a bluing behind the shed in full fronal view of all viewers of his half-baked show (to be fully trotted out nationwide on all media carriers who cared to carry the kerfuffle - “non-N people have NO RIGHT to use the N word.”
Only conclusion I come to: that was NOT written by a non-N person.
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