wrongworddammit

In a Facebook status update:

"Pool is open at my parents house if anyone in the area wants to stop by. Pool, booze, corn hole, hot tub and bone fire tonight."


You should probably get that checked. 

One's hair coming down to one's shoulders is normal. Saying that one's hair comes up to one's shoulders gives me visions of Bigfoot with its head shaved. Might just be me, but I giggled.

(Also, new comm plug: hntw_fic.)

I found these in an article called The Top Ten Most Unforgivable Spelling Mistakes on Twitter but I think they belong in the "wrong word" category rather than the "misspelled" category. I'm not going to reproduce them all, just my favourite three.

"I've got a sky full of angles watching over me." (Angels, obviously.)

"I hate Hippocrates, but I might be the biggest one out there." Hypocrites,

"I love the smell of my brother's colon." Cologne.

"I don't have any drama, so I must live bicuriously through yours."
"Have you ever had a friend or family member try to live bicuriously through you?" This one is apparently supposed to be "vicariously."

Danny upholsters his gun but the man round houses it out of his hand before Danny can even raise it.

[Irrelevant funny thing happens], chaos insures.

I'd have thought you'd want to insure AGAINST chaos.

From an otherwise well-written story:

"Take up your weapons and flea!"

LOL forever XD

My co-worker emailed me that a project hadn't yet been started because: "I've been in-ad dated with work."

From an email regarding use of compression stockings:
"You should see a doctor because you don't want to impeach Venus blood return in your legs."

... he tore his eyes out one by one:

I know a lot of people who have balled their eyes out because of this blog.

Put the melon baller down. It's only a blog.

A local mayoral candidate has a TV ad where she's talking about how the police should be "respective". From context, it's pretty obvious she meant respectful.

How on *earth* did that get past the production company?