Double-take, # 247

At a time when every online report and article must be illustrated, however unpictorial the subject, here is a recent (and mangled) attempt to represent visually the news report ‘Sheffield Posties to Go on Strike this Weekend’:

Link: The Star (Sheffield)

caption (& picture of a hand) ‘posting many letters to red british [sic] postbox on street’, illustrating postal workers strike

Not Washed or Cooked, # 313

Someone recommended to me The Disappearance, an eight-part French thriller shown on BBC4. The subtitles came with a glaring mangle:

Epiosde

You Cannot Be Serious, # 69

The caption-writer either doesn’t understand the term ‘clockwise’ or needs to learn to check details before posting… This was spotted by Dr Faustus, who explains: ‘If the photos were correctly read clockwise from top left, the bottom two pictures should be swapped over. Result: unintentionally hilarious image of the Mad Hatter as a new X-Man’ — so crossed streams after all?

Link: The Guardian, ‘Scorchers: The Hottest Films of Summer 2016’

misordered caption – X-Men/Alice crossover]

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 229

From Dr Faustus (and now corrected):

Link: BBC News, ‘Can the Micro Bit Inspire a Million?’

lunch for launch

You Cannot Be Serious, # 63

Dr Faustus thinks this may be less money than it looks:

Link: BBC News, NI’s top lawyer to join “gay cake” case’

£500 pounds

Not Washed or Cooked, # 301

‘Chris is risen’ reads a sign made for Acomb Parish Church (reported by the BBC). Meanwhile…

Link: Valley News, 14: 17 (25 April–1 May, 2014), p. 5

Esater

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 172

Not quite an apostrophe catastrophe, since there was clearly an attempt to insert the required apostrophe; but a check to see what was showing onscreen might have been wise before posting:

Link: Daily Mail, ‘The genius who vanished […]’, picture caption

Nick¿s

Double-take, # 124

It is hard to tell exactly what can have happened to this supposed television programme information, spotted by Des Pond of Slough:

The mangle here is, of course, ‘assistances’, although the whole thing turns out to be a mangle since the episode actually shown in this slot was from a much later series, in which the Avengers were John Steed and Mrs Emma Peel, not from the original 1961 series, which begins with a focus on a character called Dr David Keel, with assistance from the (definitely neither female nor plural) John Steed, who gradually takes over the lead role.

assistances for assistant/assistants

You Cannot Be Serious, # 32

Today, crass thoughtlessness brings inappropriate humour to a tragedy’s anniversary:

Link: Twitter, BBC News, ‘Before and after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami’

before and after [but showing after and before]

Right word, wrong form, # 4

This mangle can be found on an Australian video available on Facebook:

Link: Facebook, Sea FM Hobart, ‘Depressed goat […]’

Mangle aside, the film tells a heart-warming story; it’s worth watching if you like goats, donkeys, animals-in-general, stories-with-happy-endings or some combination of the above.

laid for lay

Not Washed or Cooked, # 179

As promised yesterday, the second of two mangles spotted on a recent episode of BBC 1’s Watchdog, this time on a segment introducing a service offered by Moonpig.com:

Source: BBC 1 Watchdog, series 34, episode 2 (23 October 2014), at approximately 51 minutes

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The Wrong Word Entirely, # 50

Spotted by Linda Gowans:

Link: The Independent, ‘Brazil vs Netherlands World Cup 2014 [… ]’

exercised for exorcised

Not Washed or Cooked, # 114

Kittens with a mangled caption:

Link: CSL Cartoon Stock | Balls Of Yarn Cartoons and Comics | Balls Of Yarn cartoon 1 of 5

actuallly

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 35

This photograph, which seems to have first occurred online in April 2012 (possibly here), has been doing the rounds on Facebook and the wider web. It seems always to have gone under the title 'Fred Flintstone was Here', but without being directly captioned; and it might have been better for it to remain uncaptioned…