Comedy of Arrears

Spilling. grandma and punctuality
mistakes in pubic paces,

Permalink A picture graphic originally entitled “Yeah, I think it’s spelt cologne”. There is nothing I can add beyond that… (…unless, that is, the image appears out of focus. In that case, I would recommend clicking on the image itself and then using the magnify tool.) (source: twitter.com, via tickld.com)
Permalink Technological milestones are an important part of history. During the very first ever telephone call, Alexander Graham Bell famously said the words “Watson, come here - I want to see you!”; and comedian Ernie Wise is well known for having made the first ever mobile phone call in the UK, in 1985. If ever, in the future, there is a camera that is able to articulate the scenes it takes photographs of without human intervention, it will be forever known for having stemmed from a prototype exhibited this week, the first outing of which produced this grammatically incorrect printout. What a shame. (source: bbc.co.uk)
Permalink I dislike the way American newspapers omit prepositions when talking about days (it IS grammatically incorrect!), but the real reason this is here is because it’s truly amazing. (source:www.tickld.com)
Permalink This headline should read “alcohol-fuelled poses”. Discuss. (Yes, I really have become that desperate/eagle-eyed in my search for errors.) Also, note the tabloid skill of being able to bring anything and everything back round to Princess Di. Impeccable, sirs. (source: the Daily Mail website - I don’t visit it often, I promise)
Permalink I assume these death treats must be apples laced with poison. (source: a national newspaper)
Permalink Screenshot of a controversial app, taken from part of a news report by the BBC. There are any number of things that this sentence could mean. (source: bbc.co.uk)
Permalink I’m led to believe that this is not the going rate for a Bruce Springsteen CD.
Permalink Transcript of lower text: Middlesbrough (4-4-2) Mignolet; Hoyte, Hines, Bates, Bennett; McMahon, Williams; Thomson (Smallwood, 69), Arca (Reach, 78); Main, Jutkiewicz (Emnes, 78). Substitutes not used Ripley (gk), McManus, Ogbeche, Martin. Sunderland (4-4-2) Mignolet; Bardsley, O’Shea, Turner, Richardson; Larsson, Gardner, Colback, McClean; Sessegnon, Campbell. Substitutes not used Westwood (gk), Wickham, Ji, Meyler, Elmohamady, Lynch, Reed. Referee A Taylor (Cheshire) In this sports report, not only are both teams playing a 4-4-2 formation, they are also both playing the uncommonly-named, Belgian-born 23 year-old goalkeeper, Simon Mignolet; Middlesbrough’s actual shot-stopper was Jason Steele. (source: a national newspaper)
Permalink I’ll tell you something: the garden roses I used in this baking recipe did nothing to prevent the mixture from splitting! (source: a kitchen surface mat)
Permalink A look back some the worst errors obituaries. (source: bbc.co.uk)
Permalink Somebody can’t spell yoghurt, and this time it’s not America. (source: BSU’s Students’ Union)
Permalink I assume you mean brollies, which even still is incorrect; brollies in buckets don’t please me one bit. (source: BSU’s Students’ Union)
Permalink When the number 2,029 was asked to sum itself up in three works, it answered 1984 by George Orwell, Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 and Painting Number Five by Jackson Pollock. (source: BSU’s Students’ Union)
Permalink This was the posters pinned to a walls in the Students’ Unions of Bath Spa Universities.
Permalink Please help us to keep the language clean; do not misuse commas. (source: a First bus in Bath, Somerset)