“Selling My Daughter…”: 60 Truncated Titles, Sentences, And Phrases That Got An Amputation Against Their Will

Many of us have been there. We receive a notification that says something like, "Your sister has passed..." Our hands start shaking as we wonder in shock how this could have happened when we just spoke to her five minutes ago. We bravely open the message and a wave of relief hits. "Your sister has passed her exam."

Ironically, at the heart of these disasters is technology's genuine attempt at trying to make life easier, more efficient and neater by truncating a sentence, phrase, title or headline. Instead, we're hit with confusion, chaos, panic and sometimes, comedy gold.

There's an entire community dedicated to sharing the best examples of Premature Truncation, and many of the posts appear to have been amputated against their will. Bored Panda has put together the funniest ones for you to scroll through as a hilarious reminder that context is everything.

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Nasty Way To Go

A train display sign shows "We are now approaching Leeds" and then, with premature truncation, "where this train terminates Customers".

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Well That's Just Rude

Dating Must Be Difficult In Ireland!

Fair

Nothing

The American Education System In A Nutshell

Cillian Murphy Has Such Great Acting Range

Thought This Belonged Here

Amazing New Drink

Will He Be Able To Pull It Off

I Hate When I Accidentally Become A Cat

Whoops

Well I Qm Not Going To Use It Then

How Does That Work Exactly?

This Seems Excessive

Didn't Know We Had A National Number

Tough, But Fair

Huge If True

Welp

Apparently People Go Cheap These Days

Oh Balls

Elon Musk And His Crazy Ideas

Truly Inspirational

I Guess The Gay In Gamers Was There For A Reason?

Spong

Who Knew!

2$

But I Wanted To Paint

Who Would've Thought

Thats Certainly A Message

I Don’t Recall That Being In The Bible

Was Not Expecting To See That Notification On My Watch

What Did Minecraft Do??

Breaking News

To Think That This Has Never Happened Before!

Sign 1: You Have Rotor Blades On Your Head

What A Twist

Don't Let Others Breathe

I Can’t Imagine How Busy His Life Must Have Been For Him To Pull That Off

Impossible!

Diverse Movies In 2019

No Way

The Fish Feel Your Pain

Oh, That's A Shame

Homo

That Seems A Bit Rash

Tempting

Don't Give Up Keir!

David Fincher

I Can't Believe It

Seems Hardly Relevant, But Ok

That’s Not What I Went In For…

Please Mind The Gap Between The Train And The Platform

Huge Gorilla

I Think I'll Pass Thanks

Selling People On Aliexpress Now?

Good For You

How Dare They

Hmm…

Robyn Smith

Robyn Smith

Mantas Kačerauskas

Mantas Kačerauskas

Rugilė Žemaitytė

Rugilė Žemaitytė

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