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Sack the Proofreader...
Posted by Andrew F on 6 January 2011 - 7:30pm.
I spotted the fact that they'd mis-spelled Leslie Nielsen's first name on a DVD sleeve in the shops today. It was only when I got home and had another look that I noticed they'd cocked up his surname too. And Kelsey Grammer's...
What's even more galling is that the DVD sleeve I saw in HMV was for a reissue boxset which came out more than a year after this original release...
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What's even more galling
is that all those fine actors are in that piece of dog doo
Agreed
But is there a chance it might be intentional? A mis-firing gag, certainly, but a gag all the same? The success of Naked Gun and Airplane relied on the many sight gags and the attention to detail (or sometimes lack of it). Maybe the mis-spelling of names as a theme runs through the film?
I don't think so...
I haven't seen the film itself, but checking out other posters / artwork for it, they get the names right.
Don't you just hate it...
... when they make such basic spellig mistakes?
Don't look at me
I spelt public as pubic on a post today.
He should be known forever more as a
Poofreader
My thoughts exactly
OMFG.
Oh. My. FUCKING. GOD.
The best that can be said is that she's probably a big Second Amendment fan and might fall victim to an improperly discharged howitzer on her nightstand. Either that or a bear will get her while she's struggling with a jammed RPG.
I'm joking of course. I don't want bad spellers dead, even foamingly right-wing ones. I'd settle for having them ejected into space.
Last year I was in my local Land-Rover dealer
and I noticed that they had a shelf of brochures (and a big poster) relating to 'LAND-ROVER COMMERICAL VEHICLES'.
These were proper glossy corporate brochures as well, not something knocked up by the dealer.
How about this gem?
Looks grate on the shelf.
Schoolboy error
It should be Une Nuit À Paris, of course.
With the accent
on the origunal.
The Sisters Of Mercy (again)
Rhino's remaster series of their three albums included the third (difficult) album Visoin Thing
which I have
There's an audiophile label
There's an audiophile label which specialises in typos on its £30+ CDs. I think it's called Audio Fidelity.
On the otherwise superb Mobile Fidelity pressing
of the Hounds Of Love. the label lists first track as 'Cloud Busting' D'oh!
Band on the One
was the title of a best of Wings cd I got in Hong Kong.
That reminds me
of a karaoke song catalogue I saw in Majorca in the late 90s.
There was a song by Paul McCartney and his Wigs.
Am I dreaming...
...or did I once see the name Billy Furry?
The opposite
My friend got a knock-off cassette copy of Innervisions from somewhere and told us all about the hilarious mis-spelling of 'He's Mister Know-it-all' on it
I love a misspelled tattoo
That's the gang tag of East LA's infamous
Market Gardeners, surely?
You'll like this site, then:
http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/
It's amazing what gets through...
I got the recent reggae/dubstep CD 'Scientist Launches Dubstep into Outer Space', which sadly, on the spine, is merely 'Scientist Lauches Dubstep into Outer Space'.
I also have a jazz CD by Renee Fleming (day job: operatic soprano), featuring guitarist 'Bill Frisel', shorn of his extra 'L' at the end of his surname. This is on the front cover. If they don't give that the once-over, well..... where are you?
Hawkwind
Warrior on the Edge of Time, last track side 1 - label: Demented King, sleeve: Demented Man
Astounding Sounds Amazing Music - last track side 1 again: Kadoo Flyer, sleeve: och I forget now but it was different
Roy Hodgson's
favourite album apparently.
I thought Roy's favourite album was
Witchie Blackmore's Wainbow?
Don't shoot the proofreader!
The blame can sometimes be laid much closer to the original source. Not so very long ago the front page of Rory Gallagher's official website (supervised by his brother/manager) referred not only to a song called "Tatooed Lady" but also to "Last of the Independants".