Words, Words, Words
Happy New Year, everyone. At least, I hope so!
To get us started on a not-so-serious track, I am holding a contest for the funniest typo of 2021. We looked at several in October – based on the number of comments received, the winner from that post was the “Walking Closet” example. Several of you thought the idea might be very helpful :).
So, I’m taking that winner from the first half of 2021 and putting it into a contest with these three, in order of when I received them (thank you, auto-correct! 😉).
- “I saw cars going slowly by in front of the neighbor’s house. People must know it’s going up for salsa.” (should have been sale)
- “The tornado missed us by 3.5 mules.” (should have been 3.5 miles)
- “All day I have been singing “All I want for Christmas is a hippocampus” (should have been hippopotamus)”
I can’t decide which one is the funniest! For the first one, I think all real estate agents should know that, apparently, salsa is a very big draw for an open house. For the second one, depending upon how big the mules are, it sure sounds as if the tornado was close! For the third one, a hippocampus is a VERY important part of our brains, so I’m sort of leaning towards that one . . .
YOU PICK:
#1 – Walking Closet
#2 – Salsa
#3 – Mules
#4 – Hippocampus
Please comment on all of them! 🤣
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