I hesitated to post a reply to this thread for fear of starting a flame war, offending people, and getting lots of hate mail, and I'm a new forum user to boot, but here goes anyway:
I do think that the original post is funny. You would expect that someone would check the spelling of something that is going to be plastered all over the place. But the fact is that people don't, or, even worse, multiple people may have seen the mistake before printing and not noticed it.
What I cringe at, but hold my tongue about, is the spelling, grammar, and usage of about 50 to 75 percent of the posts to all online forums that I peruse. I used to teach English, and I still work in education and do tutoring. It's amazing how many adults make as many mistakes as they do. I used to think it was a generational thing, but people older than I as well as younger than I do it.
Here are a few examples: "He love's his tool's. I now he doe's. My Parent's dont know were too put there new Toolbox. My sister use to be thinner, and i use to be to."
If you can find 14 mistakes in the quotation above, you may join me as an honorary member of SGUP (The Spelling/Grammar/Usage police). If not, feel free to keep posting quality contributions with all mistakes included.
Now I hope no one takes me too seriously in this. Although I still cringe at seeing the mistakes, I stop short of correcting writing mistakes in the forums!
Ed
My mother in law used to be an English teacher and she is forever correcting me! Irregardless, I know she's just giving me a hard time! (She HATES the word "irregardless", she says it's not a real word! I noticed that my spell check didn't try to correct it either!)