School official explains embarrassing typo on ‘public’ school sports sign

Yahoo ^ | 09/13/12 | Cameron Smith

[DFG]

Note to school districts: If you are going to produce a field-side banner aiming at increasing sponsorship via the sales of other similar banners, make sure that your own product is spell checked before it goes to the printers, and after it comes out.

In particular, avoid the mistake made by the Red Lion Area School District -- a school district in Pennsylvania -- in the banner above, as first noted by Deadspin and originally posted to Twitter by Ryan Petzar. Go ahead and read the text on that sign twice. The spelling mistake is as embarrassing as it is innocuous.

Clearly, Red Lion officials were advocating that they were a purveyor of public education, not "pubic education." That was confirmed by Don Dimoff, the marketing and communications manager for the Red Lion School District in a conversation with Prep Rally on Thursday.

[DFG]

[roadcat]

And students didn’t blink an eye reading it, just saying “yup, that’s what it is!”.

[HerrBlucher]

These days it may very well have not been a misspelling.

[uglybiker]

[GeronL]

and they displayed the banner anyway?

[Vigilanteman]

I’m betting nobody noticed. There is so much pubic education in public education that there isn’t much time for basic speling anyome.

[dfwgator]

Talk about a hairy situation.

[circlecity]

embarrassing faux pas but I’ve seen much, much worse. Somewhere on the net I saw a page of similar accidental goofs and typos found in church bulletins and signs and it was hilarious.

[Da Coyote]

There are no depths below which a pubic skool will not go.

[TigersEye]

Skools! They make you go to them.

[randog]

I wonder how many phone calls and e-mails Don has received now that he’s achieved internet infamy...?

[Red Badger]

Must be the same guy...........

[Bratch]

[red-dawg]

[Lakeshark]

Speaking of typooos and spelcheque fellow FIENDS.....

This is as good as the old SW airlines ad:

*Painting team name in end zone*
CHEFS.
Wanna get away?

[Red Badger]

[KarlInOhio]

make sure that your own product is spell checked

Eye no the spill chick past it.

[Puppage]

What am I missing here?

[TigersEye]

Nuttin.

[gorush]

"But Officer...it's only Wednesday!"

[onyx]

ROTFLOLOL.

I am still laughing over SBJ's spelcheque fellow FIENDS...!

[onyx]

I had to ping you to this.

[Secret Agent Man]

All the pervert teachers saw the sign and said “Sounds good to me!”

[vbmoneyspender]

Still laughing. Thanks

[Lakeshark]

FIENDS

I really did laugh out loud with that one.....it's a good thinkg I wasn't drinking coffee at that point.....

[momf]

Uh, you might want to read the last line in the opening or, did I miss what we are “preping” for?

[longtermmemmory]

the union will demand a pay raise for have to explain their own screw ups.

[tumblindice]

[roadcat]

What am I missing here?

Not so many years ago, they were teaching kids how to put condoms on bananas. Let's just say teachers have progressed to the point that kids expect to be participating in pubic events during school.

[roadcat]

Uh, you might want to read the last line in the opening or, did I miss what we are “preping” for?

That was another typo. "Prep Rally" was supposed to read "Perp Rally"...

[roadcat]

Oops, “Perv Rally”, whatever...

[stephenjohnbanker]

Your gonna phogg up my reeding glasses.

A protest sign I witnessed....

” Get a brain, Morans !! “

(I guess a brain is better than a 5 lb chub of ground beef)

[SeminoleCounty]

I am sure some of the left wing groups like Planned Parenthood, LGBT Rights Groups, and Trojans will not have a problem placing banner ads next to “Pubic Education”

[Iron Munro]

[stephenjohnbanker]

That’s it!

[onyx]

Hahahahahahahahahaha!
Too funnie.
I can’t stop laughing!

[Lakeshark]

The fish speshul for all morans and fiends!!!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

: )

[momf]

Glad you cleared that up....I thought you meant pep rally! Silly me!

[Iron Munro]

Sign On Burger King - Gary, Indiana

[BobL]

At least this school is open about - so parents can finally find out what’s going on (or at least the idiot parents that thought schools were just for education...LOL).

Here in Texas the districts are moving to big-time sex-ed, but doing so quietly.

[Lakeshark]

Mo bettah.....

For morans and fiends.

[onyx]

LOLOLOL.

I like the OUTBACK too.

[CommerceComet]

My all-time favorite along these lines from Dave Barry:

Q: Did alert reader Johnny G. Stewart send you an amusing automotive review from the Lewiston, Idaho, Morning Tribune?

A: Yes. It states: “A short-throw six-speed Borg-Warner transmission means classic Pontiac excitement and the fun of a well-timed shift.”

Q: What’s so amusing about that?

A: There was a letter missing from “shift.”

Assuming this was really a true event, I'd bet there were lots of newspapers with coffee sprayed all over them that morning in Lewiston, Idaho.

[Revolting cat!]

Who needs to travel to China for Engrish?!

[Revolting cat!]

That's why I say we need Grammer and Spelling Police!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Psychic fail : )

[MayflowerMadam]

Having worked in a Public Works Dept. for a decade, I can tell you this is not unusual. Of course, spell check isn’t gonna help a bit in this situation.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Heh, heh. They need to use they grammar mo’ bettah.

[musicman]