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To paraphrase a Lithuanian proverb, proofread nine times, publish once. Because if you cheat at the first, you might end up like these editors who had to make up for it during the second.

Earlier this month, writer Séamas O'Reilly tweeted his all-time favorite press screw up/apology (published by the National Enquirer in 1997) and challenged other people to share more of them.

Luckily, O'Reilly's tweet went viral and his call to action was answered. Turns out, the days of traditional media were pretty wild!

Image credits: shockproofbeats

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Vicky Z
Community Member
5 years ago

Give this man a big applause!!! Pleasing 15 women in one day is not easy!

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    juliawildsmith Report

    WilvanderHeijden
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    How many people called Donnie McArthur an old pouffe before he made a complaint?

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    #3

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    leora_hugs Report

    Lauren Caswell
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I really love the specificity of this!

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    #4

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    KJ
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    They are so similar that anyone could have made this mistake.

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    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Harvesting your own seed could be fun too unless you really hate children😅😅😅 That's hilarious and should be the top #1

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    #6

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    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    The writer of the post however maybe was on drugs....

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    He's likely to have had a purple something else if he'd been injured by an IUD. ;-)

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    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Next step: an atheist pope😅

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    #9

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    TooManyEmmas Report

    BasedWang
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Whoever edited this one is a savage

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    #10

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    Stimpy
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Was it supposed to say "a dangerous c**t"?

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    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I like that they wrote her height too😅😅

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    Watching
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Only 12 inches?!?!?! They did that giraffe wrongggg.

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    #13

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    t0mbstoneblues Report

    Robert T
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    What's 3 orders of magnitude between friends.

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    #14

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    Sathnam Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    😅😅😅that's so funny! Just one letter changes the whole sentence!

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    smithni Report

    KJ
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    So the interior design is just a hobby?

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    Pas2 Report

    Marky Mark
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Whenever I sing I am described as a terrorist. It's a fair cop.

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    #17

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    verysimple Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    The whole family is a mistake

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    #18

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    JiniMae Report

    Troux
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    The editor was ambivalent about this.

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    #19

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    NIH_LLAMAS Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Are we sure? Maybe we send Bezos to check?

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    #20

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    Astro_Jonny Report

    Paul C.
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    "Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement"

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    #21

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    Kayfacat_ Report

    Watching
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Cilantro, cement, tastes the same.

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    #22

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    aitchyrobinson Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I have a feeling that the article was not on page 8 and it was not on Monday🙄

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    #23

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    FrankCPhoto Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    When I'm trying to say "good morning" to a customer and accidentally I say "what the f**k do you want".😅😅

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    #24

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    PDPAstor Report

    KJ
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    "So what do you know about David Astor", "Absolutely nothing", "perfect, write an article about him!"

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    #25

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    May have misheard "and he was a complete...". ;-)

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    #26

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    Embarassing, but at least they used relatively safe test data. Imagine if they'd used one of their own children, or some made up child with a stock photo.

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    WilvanderHeijden
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    I will have you know that although that Caitlin Henderson and her friend Calum Robinson showed up to the prom in a golden carriage decorated with orchids and drawn by 8 white stallions, my daughter Deb Masterson was not envious when her father drove her there in our fully paid 2013 white Fiat Panda. Regards, MRS A.Masterson

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    Kristin Ingersoll
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    These... These are not questions...

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    #29

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    hugorifkind Report

    Aria Whitaker
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    Meh, this is much milder than some of the others. I mean, they could be Married and have a son, easily. Plenty of families that have two dads out there. This seems a bit out of place with the rest of these, which are obvious, funny mess-ups.

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    Is this an eye test? Perhaps to check if you can see in black and white? /s

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    HRWright Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    When you are a college student and trying to cook but don't have any of the ingredients

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I think H R may have been in touch after that one. ;-)

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    Watching
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I am definitely glad they explained the difference.

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    Robert T
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    So Danny Vinik's wife is Beyonce. ;-)

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    Deutschland Mädchen
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    The "pro tip" got me haha

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    #36

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    Watching
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Welp, that backfired hard.

    #37

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    Not Proud British
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    What was the charity? The Russian Mafia?

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    Nicholas Kraemer
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I think maybe a 12 page apology would be in order.

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    WilvanderHeijden
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    I'm Sure Lulu wouldn't have objected to collaborate with Lou Reed and Metallica.

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    Forrest McCanless
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    My favorite that I actually saw was an Asheville, NC paper article on "Communist Bob Terrell . . ." corrected to "Columnist Bob Terrell . . ." I knew Bob and traveled with him at the time - he was their writer!

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    lara
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Oh, good, let's dismiss her heartbreaking horror by pointing out she had not" lost all her siblings, when she actually lost some of her siblings." So, everything is fine.

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    ObsessedEasily Report

    Watching
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    He was totally hiding in the bushes! We all saw him I'm still laughing hahahahaha.

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    BasedWang
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    "sited"

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    #44

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    TomEvans80 Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited)

    Many newspapers were treating her horribly and had to change policy after her passing.... that's disgusting and deep hypocrisy indeed!

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    #45

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    Jo Choto
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    They don't know a thing about football.

    #46

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    #47

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    TheDearbh Report

    WilvanderHeijden
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    So he's a pompous designer and illustrator.

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    #48

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    WilvanderHeijden
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Where did the word sober appear in this sentence? "Sober Alex Salmond" or "urged to stay sober" or "sober independence debate".

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    WilvanderHeijden
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Everybody is pimpin4paradise.

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