[Hallicrafters] 70 Year Old Spelling Error

[Greg Mijal]

Here's a good one.

I was watching the History channel a couple of years ago. It was all about
the Japanese/American battle  at Guadalcanal in the Pacific.
Unfortunately, they spelled it: GUADACANAL in the lead in to the different
segements of the show so it went on screen misspelled  four or five times.
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
in sunny Feenix
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>; "Bill Gerhold"
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Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 6:10 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] 70 Year Old Spelling Error


> A number of years ago there was a very large Civil War
> re-enactment scheduled (several thousand participants
> were expected).  Around 10,000 "flyers" were printed
> up and mailed out describing the event.
>
> Now, what the large headline on the pamphlet was
> supposed to say included the words "largest black
> powder event ever held".  Unfortunately, the person
> who typed the words into the computer, and "spell
> checked" it, omitted a single letter.  Also, no living
> person ever checked the pamphlet since it had been
> "spell checked" by the computer.  That letter was a
> single "d".  Every one of the pamphlets went out with
> the words "largest black POWER event ever held".
>
> Needless to say there were a "lot" of people who were
> "offended" by the pamphlet.
>
>
>
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