Sunday, March 3, 2019

Unintentional Humor Spawned by Bad Writing (Also, Mimeograph Ink, Yay or Nay?)

I suspect these old chestnuts have been making the rounds since the days of mimeographs, but I just saw them on a church friend's Facebook page. 

Oh--I've been meaning to ask:
Do you remember the odor of mimeograph ink (
that purple stuff)?
How did you feel about the odor? Like, or dislike?

(Orange Crate Art and I differ on this matter, and I'm curious what other people think.)

Anyway, I enjoyed these errors in public writing (if they aren't real, they could be), so I'm sharing them here.

2 comments:

  1. There should be a repository somewhere (Library of Congress?) for these things, along with the hilarious sentences allegedly written by schoolchildren and the rules for employees about bathroom use. The last one I saw once in a gas station, probably a seventeenth-generation xeroxed copy.

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  2. They're adorable!
    Real-life bad writing is usually not so amusing.

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