Typo on Ground Zero Plaque

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-07-15 01:04pm

Straight from the Smoking Gun, with pictures.

Korvan · Post by **Korvan** » 2004-07-15 01:36pm

It happens. An education program I worked on spent over six months being proofread and corrected, only to ship with environment spelled as enviroment on the packaging.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-07-15 02:11pm

Korvan wrote:It happens. An education program I worked on spent over six months being proofread and corrected, only to ship with environment spelled as enviroment on the packaging.

That's not exactly the same...

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-07-15 02:16pm

StarshipTitanic wrote:
Korvan wrote:It happens. An education program I worked on spent over six months being proofread and corrected, only to ship with environment spelled as enviroment on the packaging.
That's not exactly the same...

no it's not, this is blindingly obvious. So much for quality assurance at the metalworking shop.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-07-15 02:33pm

What's worse; that it happened at all, or that it was only just now noticed?

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-07-15 03:01pm

I can see how it would be missed. The brain automatically corrects a lot of small errors, which is probably why it took months for anyone to complain to the Port Authority. Still, for something like this, it's unacceptable that they let it get out the door like that.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2004-07-15 10:48pm

I almost never proof read what I write here at the board, but at work I read things aloud to myself just to make sure. I'm always catching shit that is wrong on our corporate website. So I can understand how things like this happen, but it is not acceptable.

Spice Runner · Post by **Spice Runner** » 2004-07-15 11:12pm

It's unacceptable that they placed the sign without making sure everything on it was exact. Somebody wasn't doing their job.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2004-07-16 01:02am

That's disgusting.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-07-16 02:33am

I don't know why, but I find that rather hilarious.

Still, this stuff will happen from time to time.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-07-16 06:16pm

That's simply incredible.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-07-17 01:34am

I fail to understand how could they make an obvious mistake like that.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-07-17 01:35am

I fail to understand how could they make an obvious mistake like that.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2004-07-17 01:55am

Evilcat4000, we heard ya the first time.

That's quite shocking. I am pretty much ashamed that this happened, I mean come on, how can you forget. I suppose its more the fact that I knew someone who was killed on the second plane.

I hope they can correct this quickly!

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-07-17 02:36am

Gandalf wrote:I don't know why, but I find that rather hilarious.

It's because of our irreverent Aussie attitude. I found it fucking funny myself.

It's not like some guy spitting on the plaque, which would be disrespectful (and disgusting). This was just a typo - it shouldn't have happened, but a lot of things in life shouldn't happen. It's not that big a deal, though I hope it is changed and corrected.

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-07-17 10:20am

evilcat4000 wrote:I fail to understand how could they make an obvious mistake like that.

Bush probably was the one who was suppoused to proof-read it; that explains it all.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-07-17 12:15pm

It's not that bad, I mean, 11th sep 2002 was a date too, perhaps the proofreaders thought the 1st years anniversary was being mentioned and didn't notice it. I know that's what I thought when I read it, the first time at least.

Ravenwing · Post by **Ravenwing** » 2004-07-17 12:20pm

Stofsk wrote:
Gandalf wrote:I don't know why, but I find that rather hilarious.
It's because of our irreverent Aussie attitude. I found it fucking funny myself.

as did i

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2004-07-17 08:19pm

Dammit, I thought this thread was about Hiroshima.

Thats actually pretty damn funny. Imagine all the ceremonies, all the well-wishers, the Emperors new clothes...