1. ampm — imagine a better highway rest stop brand than you can imagine.
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2. Including Reebok’s external advertising, which didn’t have time for a proofread.
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3. Houston, we have a typo.
At approximately 9:20pm on 22 July 1962, NASA’s Mariner I launched into outer space and promptly exploded five minutes later, costing the American government a tight eighty mil. The cause? A single omitted hyphen that should have been nestled deep in the hand-transcribed mathematical code.
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4. Not to mention the unemployment rat.
The Sydney Morning Herald posted this absolute pearler on the front cover of their 5 May 2017 edition. Conspiracy theorists have since reared their all-knowing heads (from the Madelaine McCann Netflix special no doubt) suggesting that the ‘intentional’ typo was a not-so-subtle nod to the 150 journalists who were in the process of being laid off at the paper.
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5. [Headline about Financial Review typo to come here.]
2014 can’t have been a good year at the Financial Review either…
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6. Forgive me, Lord, for I have done a real doozy.
The Bible isn’t a brand per se, but it has earned a spot in this list simply for the sheer scope of its historic blunders. In 1631, a version of The Bible was published with the word ‘not’ omitted from ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery.’ Later, in a 1795 edition of the King James Bible, ‘Let the children first be filled’ (Mark 7:27) was mistranscribed to ‘Let the children first be killed’. Previously, in 1716, the same Bible had been printed with ‘Sin on more’ instead of ‘Sin no more’. In fact, a whopping 8,000 copies were printed before anyone picked up the typo.
7. It’s murder on the sea floor, you’d better not kill the scub[a].
This typo didn’t bring any brands down, but holy heck did the laughs rain down once this one saw air time.
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Do you know what brand doesn’t make massive grammatical blunders? Hedgehog. Our team of capable creatives have the combined brain power of a full shelf of Oxford Dictionaries and can spot a misused ‘their’ faster than a huntsman on a windscreen.