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Apostrophe Abuse, Photos, Spelling, Typos

Posted by Gez on 17th December, 2008

Indelible spelling and grammar errors always make me laugh. We’ve seen previous examples on headstones and plaques and this got me thinking.

What’s the worst possible situation for poor spelling and grammar?

Ladies and Gentlemen, your answer:

Its not the cards your delt in life...

Wow! That’s a pretty shitty card to be “delt”.  Want to see some more pictures of misspelt tattoos?

Me too.

Let’s start with this fool. Do you think the phrase he hears most in life is “no you’re not”?

I'm awsome

Next up, we have a classic example of a rebel without a clue.

Fuck the systsem!

This a real tragedy.

Tradgey/Comedy

And finally, the CNN website was the source of this story from 1999 about Joseph Beahm, then 21, who paid $100 for this mess.

Why not? Everyone elese does.

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14 Comments »

1. [...] Here’s more pics of tattoo typos [Link]: [...]

   Pingback by NEWS/PHOTOS: Tattoo typo brings legal action « 1websurfer’s Weblog — 18th December, 2008 @ 2:32 pm

2. How could you miss “your mine”?
   It’s been around for a while, but most recently it was on Failblog.
   http://failblog.org/2008/12/12/spelling-fail-6/

   Comment by Kev — 18th December, 2008 @ 8:47 pm

3. Awsome and tradgic at the same time.

   Comment by Michal — 18th December, 2008 @ 10:36 pm

4. Don’t forget that the “your” in the “your delt” is also the wrong form. It should be “you’re dealt”. That guy got a two for one deal at that place! LOL

   Comment by Jodi — 19th December, 2008 @ 2:44 am

5. That guy got THREE for one. Check out the second line, and the absence of the apostrophe in “its”–ouch!

   Comment by AE — 29th December, 2008 @ 3:01 am

6. The first tattoo has four errors in total. Three of them are mentioned in the above comments and there is an additional it’s/its error in the first line.

   Comment by Gez — 5th January, 2009 @ 6:55 pm

7. Ah, so sad. i know someone that have “England for ever”. Now paying lots of money to get it removed.

   Comment by Shoes — 20th February, 2009 @ 11:36 pm

8. that first tatoo is bad ass tho even tho its got all them errors.

   Comment by crystal — 13th May, 2009 @ 10:05 pm

9. How could anyone miss that “your” is being used instead of “you’re”…how does anyone confuse the two?

   Comment by Meagan — 1st August, 2009 @ 1:10 am

10. I can not believe the comments above which contain as many errors as the ink work.
    Michal “Awesome and Tragic”…….
    Shoes “I know someone who has….”
    Crystal “all those errors”….

    Come on get it right!

    Comment by Joy Bratherton — 18th August, 2009 @ 7:07 pm

11. That’s awfool!!!

    Comment by Irene Suwarno — 30th August, 2009 @ 7:22 am

12. @Bratherton…Michal who stated the tattoos were “Awsome and tradgic” was being ironic as that is how they are spelled in the tattoos

    Comment by Brittany — 8th September, 2009 @ 10:20 pm

13. Not to defend the tard but the shoulder tattoo might be a pun because it’s located on his bulging deltoid muscle. But yeah you’re right.

    Comment by bitter — 20th February, 2010 @ 3:37 pm

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