Thursday, May 7, 2009

Subtle typos...or are they?

We have a whole division dedicated to tracking apparently unfortunate typos across the world, and what we have found is not only an increase in the number of typos in public places, but also an increase in the number of typos we can trace back to the nefarious machinations of the parent corporation. While the full list is too large to reproduce here, we will give you a couple of examples. The first comes from a newspaper, and tries to mislead us with the headline, implying that a memo was given to people that were insensitive instead of the memo being too insensitive. Our operatives initially thought this might be inadvertent, but subsequent investigations have confirmed that the intent of the author was to paint those that were offended by the memo as insensitive. It's just so typical of the Unholy Brotherhood of the Hole Punch that we sometimes forget that the stereotype is real!

The other is from an advertising campaign for KFC. The Parent Corporation believes in fried foods very deeply and objected to KFC's attempts to paint themselves as a healthy place to eat, and sabotaged their Unthink KFC campaign by causing them to register the domain unthinkfc.com (note the single "k" and think "Un-thin KFC").

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we believe that our supporters should now take extra precauitons and be more vigilant than ever against typos, as the Parent Corporation is clearly using them to its advantage!

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