Typographical errors continue to bring the gift of harmless amusement to Home Truths listeners...
When I put an announcement for a dance at our village hall in the Parish Magazine, I invited everyone to come and "dance your socks off", (possibly not a very English expression but then I am originally Canadian). I couldn't believe it when I got the magazine and found that the first 's' in socks had been replaced by a 'c'.
Christina Dymond, Devon
I belong to a local Amateur Operatic company who were recently asked to sing some carols for the switching on of the town Christmas lights- imagine our amusement to find printed on the carol sheet, the immortal words 'Thus spake the Seraph, and forthwith appeared a shining thong'
Barbara Brown
A colleague wrote to a theatre producer nicknamed by us the Poisoned Dwarf because of his diminutive stature and his ability to give us loads of headaches. The letter came back from the typists with aspiration, "I look forward to hearing from you shorty" What a difference an L makes.
Allan McCarthy, London
One of the funniest I have come across recently was to be found on the instruction leaflet for a well known pharmaceutical company's morning after pill. The instruction should have read "Take within 72 hours of unprotected sex" - it actually said "Take with 72 hours of unprotected sex"!
David Rivers, Kent
