Fugative captured



  • Saw this on my local news station last night (channel 4 in Detroit, NBC/WDIV)

    You'd think a fairly reliable news station would have...oh, I dunno, spellchecker.

    fugative

    Sorry for the terrible quality. Cell phone + TV = not good.



  • Submit it to [url=http://www.englishfailblog.com]englishfailblog.com[/url].



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    I'd expect no such thing from Detroit. I would however, expect Detroit to be used to spelling fugitive.


  •  Your site juste failed ... must've been the DailyWTF effect ...



  •  must have just went down for a minute or something, cuz i still see the image after clearing cache(and the other sites on the box). its a dedicated box with very little traffic...



  • @Monkios said:

    Your site juste failed ... must've been the DailyWTF effect ...

    Gimme a break, TDWTF gets less traffic than your mom and she still retains her structural integrity. 



  •  thats what i was thinking, not the mom part, but TDWTF certainly is no digg or fark, etc



  • This reminds me of something I saw on MSNBC, years ago. It was shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, when the "dirty bomb" hysteria was high. MSNBC had made a kewl animated graphic of bullet points which listed possible materials for dirty bombs. I remember it showed Strontium, Uranium, and ... the creatively-spelled element, Sezium.



  • Someone please tell me you saw this commercial too - I think it was during the Olympics(!):

     A driver swerves off the road and hits a tree.  Instantly an call center operator responds: "This is OnStar, are you alright?  We've detected a collision; we're sending help now."  The commercial ends with an on-screen caption announcing OnStar's new feature:

    Automatic Crash Repsonse

    I almost didn't notice it because I type this word all the time.  :)  But I waited until they aired the spot a second time.   Sure enough...

    The news is put together quickly, but don't you think they'd have enough time to proofread a national TV ad?



  • @morbiuswilters said:

    @Monkios said:

    Your site juste failed ... must've been the DailyWTF effect ...

    Gimme a break, TDWTF gets less traffic than your mom and she still retains her structural integrity. 

     

    Cue Star Trek joke in 5... 4... 3... ah, screw it, I'll do it myself.

    "I canna hold her much longer, Captain.  She's gonna blow!" 

     



  • @cconroy said:

    @morbiuswilters said:

    @Monkios said:

    Your site juste failed ... must've been the DailyWTF effect ...

    Gimme a break, TDWTF gets less traffic than your mom and she still retains her structural integrity. 

     

    Cue Star Trek joke in 5... 4... 3... ah, screw it, I'll do it myself.

    "I canna hold her much longer, Captain.  She's gonna blow!" 

    Fire photon torpedoes!


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