Reply #44: I have two [View All]

But neither are mine. The first appeared in a daily newspaper. I'm in the newspaper business and this one had everyone scratching their heads. What apparently happened was a sports writer called into the night desk following a late night high school wrestling match. The two were probably joking around and tired and one of the two said something that the night editor typed in without realizing what he was doing. The story was never given a final proofreading and went out to 30,000 readers the next day as follows: "(John Doe), sucking cock, won the championship with a pin at..."
All hell broke loose. The paper offered the most red-faced apology the following day I've ever read. Both writers eventually were forced to leave to leave the paper. You had to feel terrible for the kid, who undoubtedly got all kinds of ribbing from his friends.

The other was a oral screw-up. When the great old anchor of WABC News in New York, Roger Grimsby, retired, somebody asked him on air what his worst mistake reading the news was. He replied, completely deadpan as always, "I mispronounced the word 'count'."
It took me a split second to realize what that meant, then I couldn't stop laughing for five minutes. It was the delivery that made it so hilarious.