-- "Costly victory" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 27, 2008
-- Sign in parking lot of Best Western Abercorn Inn in Richmond, BC, Canada on October 18, 2008
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-- "SHORT-TRACK SCHEDULE" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 24, 2008 If you write both repecheage and the correctly spelt repechage in the same short column, someone is bound to notice.
-- "Lose rock closes road" in The Province on October 26, 2008 The headline confused me even after reading it three times. I then had to read the blurb to make sure it was in fact an error.
-- Digital register at Purdy's Chocolate in Burnaby, B.C.'s Metrotown Mall on October 19, 2008
-- "Kazmir, Hamels to start" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 22, 2008 Ladies and gentlemen, behold a rare reversal of the more common it's for its error.
-- "New homes in village after 2010" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 22, 2008
-- "Aiming for 2010 win" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 23, 2008
-- Digital directory at The Domain at 2828 Main Street in Vancouver, BC, Canada on October 21, 2008 I've got nothing to say 'cept it should be Occupied.
-- "If you can't trust the Russians, who can you trust?" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 21, 2008
click image to enlargeThis is equivalent to a punch in the face. Fer cryin' out loud, the correct spelling is to the immediate right of the quoted text. Come on.
-- "Healthy Seth drive" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 16, 2008 Pop quiz: Is pasion pronounced like patient, but without the hard ending?
-- "Rock on ice" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 15, 2008
-- "Joe the plumber could be a myth" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 17, 2008
click image to enlargeTake out and his two dogs and you're left with a room for he was on the way. Incorrect, non? And coorinator could be the name of Duffman's brother.
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-- TAKE YOUR VITAMINS (Living) in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 14, 2008
-- "Voting 101" on the cover of Vancouver 24 Hours on October 14, 2008 Why am I being told to be fond of my passport, admire my health card or hydro bill, and to be friendly with my neighbor?
-- "Prime time tonight (On The Tube)" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 10, 2008 See, what's clever about the show's title is that they use a number that kinda looks like the letter it is in place of. As an example of something that is anti-clever, the photo caption completely screws up the title's concept.
-- "LE'TS GO CRAZY (entertainment)" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 8, 2008
-- "2008-09 NHL Season Preview" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 8, 2008 He was a favorite of mine when he was a Canuck, especially when he was performing his highly successful shootout move: right-leg kick then a backhand to the roof. Saw it a couple of times last year during televised Penguins games; hope to see it a few times this year during televised Sens games. His last name is Ruutu.
-- "Halle's back in town" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 8, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, Biscotti and I each received a voter information card in the mail. As the advance voting days approached, we decided to get our votes in then, for various reasons. Our advance voting location was identified correctly as Nat Bailey Stadium. However, 601 Ontario Street immediately jumped out at me. Ontario Street runs northbound until just past 1st Ave, near Science World. At Ontario Street's northern-most point, where its addresses would be the lowest, an address would be in the area of 1500. Therefore, 601 Ontario Street is not possible. Having been to Nat Bailey Stadium a few times in my life (go C's!), I know that it is near 30th Ave. But I can imagine people who have never been - or possibly heard of - Nat Bailey Stadium, attempting to find it using the incorrect address, failing to find it, and therefore not voting. A week or so after the original was sent, new voter information cards were sent. In the top right corner was yellow-highlighted text: Revised Information. Also yellow-highlighted was the new correct address for Nat Bailey Stadium: 4601 Ontario Street.
Looking past how dumb it was to have made the error in the first place - I mean, c'mon, it's info from government pertaining to how to vote in a federal election - consider the effort made to rectify the error, including the cost of mailing out all those new cards and having someone (several people?) highlight the texts on all those new cards. Some attention to detail the first time around would have prevented a lot of unnecessary costs.
-- "Warning: This column could hurt your laugh muscle" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 7, 2008 More its/it's trouble. And why a space after the hyphen? There is no good answer.
-- "Police warning (need to know)" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 6, 2008 A halfway hosue? I say a half-assed effort. He sexually assaulted two women. He's either a 37-year-old man or 37 years old, never the combined a 37 years old.
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click image to enlarge-- "Crow flies into Vancouver" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 3, 2008
Error number one: her first name is Sheryl, not Sharyl. Error number two: she played GM Place on Saturday the fourth, not Friday the third. Error number three: her new CD is titled Detours, not Detour. Try much?
-- "Back to School" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 3, 2008 The r became a t and went to the end, turning through into thought. Though thought-out has a hyphen, throughout is without one.
-- "Whose eyes are these?" in Vancouver 24 Hours on October 3, 2008 Maybe the writer has a friend or relative with the name Rachel MacAdams, but most readers are probably more familiar with actress Rachel McAdams.
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I've never been to the facility, and it's been many years since I've been to Kelowna, but even I know that it's Prospera Place and not Propsera Place - and three times at that! I wonder how Prospera Credit Union feels about that multi-typo..
Can you spot it? I'll give you a second or two. Time's up. By visitor's comments, has Kelowna only ever seen one visitor? If they've seen more than one, then it should read visitors' comments. Clicking that link takes us to this:
Aaaaaah. I have discovered an endless chain of errors and I can't get free. In the above, courtesy has an extra letter and travller is missing a letter.
Finally, on a hunch I checked out the Prospera Place website, and at the top of their homepage is this:
-- Sign outside Wendy's on SE corner of Ontario Street and SE Marine Drive, Saturday September 20 2008 I'll tell you what's competitive: the letters in the word competitive on this sign. The letters I and T knew that only one of each of them could make it to the show, and what you see is the result of a tickle match to the death. The only other visibly-different result would have been COMPEITVE. Sadly, the other side of the sign was exactly the same. More sadly, both sides remain unchanged to this day.
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