I need a copy-editor.  I realize that's a practically taboo thing to say in the bloggosphere- bloggers by definition are writers who share their fresh, raw, misspelled thoughts with the world, and no grammar-observing fuddy-duddy will ever rain on that parade.  I find that whenever I do send my entries to my editor/president, she has all these, you know, "suggestions".  Who wants that?!

Well, I sure could have used a little extra copy-editing yesterday.  I've been working for a while on getting some Peeled Snacks T-shirts out to the world.  We made up these T-shirts that said, "Peel Me" for a conference a few months back, and they were a HUGE hit, with lots of people asking for a T-shirt of their own.  Fine, okay, I got to work and we're about ready to let the world have them...

Yesterday I emailed a teaser email about the T-shirts to friends and customers on our mailing list, and the subject line was supposed to read "Peeled Snacks T-shirt Contest Winner!"...  Only I left out an "r", and I didn't leave out the "r" in "winner".  I'll let you take a moment and figure out what that does to the subject line...

Yes, I emailed an obscenity to thousands of our closest friends, business associates, and customers.  Let me get right out there and say that this was NOT intentional, and I am terribly sorry about the typo.  Anyone who's been offended by this has every right to be, and there's no excuse beyond my incompetence.

But most people have taken this with a good spirit, and most of those that haven't didn't even notice the typo.  Isn't it amazing how the human brain can fill in a linguistic gap like that?  I did get some CHOICE responses from readers.  Some were so funny that I just HAVE to share them.  Please keep in mind that these come from the wonderful, twisted minds of our customers... (warning- implied vulgarity ahead...)

"You must be shirting me."

"Looks like the shirt's hit the fan."

"These sh!ts stink."

"You think your shirts don't stink?"

"It's okay- shirt happens."

"Holy furcking Shirt!"

"You've really stepped in shirt this time."

"Can I get that in dog-shirt?"

"Did you mean to-sort instead of T-sh!t?"

"Your writing's for shirt."

...and my favorite, "I like the T-sh!t contest better." 

 I'd just like to say that it's an honor to sell snacks to, and occasionally offend, such a wonderfully, sinisterly creative group of people.

I think those slogans are poetry enough for today, don't you...? 

EN