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TonyK
Host Emeritus
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While creating a service sheet for Evensong (properly spelt!) a previous vicar included a rubric to the effect that:
'The collection will be taken and presented by the congregation'
Unfortunately he omitted the letter 'p'...
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Yangtze
Shipmate
# 4965
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My favourite was not a typo but a mis-read: congregation member reading from Genesis...
The spirit of God was hoovering over the waters....
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Years ago, my then parish had a note in the bulletin telling us that the Lenten Array was of unbleached muslim.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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quote:
Originally posted by basso:
Years ago, my then parish had a note in the bulletin telling us that the Lenten Array was of unbleached muslim.
Whereas we were urged to Pray for the Muslins last week.
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Sipech
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Yangtze:
My favourite was not a typo but a mis-read: congregation member reading from Genesis...
The spirit of God was hoovering over the waters....
My favourite misread came a week or two before Christmas: quote:
Mary said to the angel, ‘How can this be, since I am no virgin?’
Probably more accurate than the orthodox view. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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The Rogue
Shipmate
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I think I may have mentioned this one on the Ship before but it still makes me smile to remember when my company was looking for a cleaner we got loads of CVs where the applicant had experience at "hovering". Sometimes auto-correct is not your friend.
Edited to correct spelling. Preview Post is always your friend but you do have to use it properly.
[ 23. July 2015, 12:20: Message edited by: The Rogue ]
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Kaplan Corday
Shipmate
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Then there's the Adrian Plass story of the Sunday School kids doing a presentation to the church about their lessons from Titus, in which five of them are supposed to hold up cards spelling out Titus, but the one holding up the U has slipped out for a pee.
Yeah, well it ought to be true.....
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mark_in_manchester
not waving, but...
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Not exactly a typo - but when I was teaching, I got tired of groping my way through documents with piles of miscellaneous attachments for data, code etc. I decided to insist on submissions in the form of 'one Word document'.
I may have used a lower-case 'w'; one wag emailed to say that he had got his submission down to two words, so would it be OK if he hyphenated them?
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(so good, I wanted to see it after my posts and not only after those of shipmate JBohn from whom I stole it)
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Baptist Trainfan
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
I think I may have mentioned this one on the Ship before but it still makes me smile to remember when my company was looking for a cleaner we got loads of CVs where the applicant had experience at "hovering".
I think you should have given them the job. It would have been a really useful ability for mopping floors with soap and water (no footmarks) and dusting high shelves and cornices (no step-ladders needed).
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Originally posted by Palimpsest:
My mother the school teacher was happy to tell the time her less than impressive principal made a P.A. statement warning students not to conjugate in the halls.
Were they studying Latin? I usually conjugated in the classroom!
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Lamb Chopped
Ship's kebab
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Just saw this gem, from the files of Captain Obvious:
quote:
A new report shows that sexually active women have a much better chance of getting pregnant than those who remain abstinent, a press release from Eurekalert reports.
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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Baptist Trainfan
Shipmate
# 15128
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Just today I read the Minutes of our local URC area meeting held the other night. The writer has written about one church's mums + tots group which she has mistakenly called "Tay and Play".
I presume that it is twinned with a drama group in Dundee.
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