Thread: Funniest OCR typos
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Old 08-06-2010, 03:14 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by bitemeok View Post
Perhaps I'm being juvenille, but I got a good laugh out of these lines from Munsey.com's version of John McPartland's Affair in Tokyo (a good noir novel, regardless of the typos):

I put my anus around Satin Shea and she pushed me away.
“Don't do it, Bob. It's not for us.”

Anyone have some other good ones?
Yeah, "rm" -> "nu" is a fairly common OCR error.

Pretty funny to read "He spread his arms wide" with that error in place. Forgot what eBook I saw that in.
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