Official Match Thread Season 38 Round 5 - West Coast Wonders v Coney Island Warriors @ The Colosseum

[HARPSichord]

Greetings everyone,

Great to see we're playing a team making human contributions this week.

I haven't shared a song all season and need to make up for my disappearing act last week so here's a fav country singer -

A few humans sharing some human music.

 

[Barrybran]

I've just caught up on the hoohah. I would just like to know if I am playing on the Wonders' half back flanker or wingman this week?

 

[BigChippa52]

I haven't shared a song all season and need to make up for my disappearing act last week so here's a fav country singer -

Heres mine

 

[Barrybran]

I would also like to know if DenieD's legs have been put on the right way or back to front

 

[Tonga Bob]

Agent93 Barrybran brian_muz Dinsdale FootyGuy13 Frankston Rover Freofalcon Lord_Flashheart Mesc Mofra Ocha905 pantskyle Paracleet Piggy Smalls Purple7x08_24 raffrox Raveneyes Reginald Perrin SBYM Smoooothy Snuffaluphagus spudmaster Stokey The Filth Wizard TheInjuryFactory toxic TubbsFarquhar Volbeat zackah



My fellow Wazzas, it's time to turn the pages of the Quinness World Records book and find some more feats in this week's edition of Know Your Opponents. This week we have the West Coast Wonders, where I could go down the old angle as they are a foundation club. I could do something about the successes they have accumulated over 38 seasons, or I could do something about the local fish & chip wrapper's obsession with their gun recr- oh wait, that's the other West Coast.

But I digress. Circumstances that played out over the past week have been the deciding influence on what chapter of the Quinness World Records book I read from this week. So please enjoy some of the Most Expensive Typos in the World.

I'll start with NASA's Mariner 1 mission in 1962, a mission that was meant to send a probe to Venus in the first interplanetary mission in US history. Except it didn't make it. A missing hyphen in the guidance code meant that NASA lost contact and the probe veered dangerously off course, and it blew up 293 seconds after launch. The cost of the mission was $18.5 million (nearly $150 million today), which led to Arthur C. Clarke dubbing the error "the most expensive hyphen in history".

Want a more expensive one? How about the housing development in Wasatch County, Utah. The 2019 tax assessment for this development was logged in at just under a billion dollars, which was a lazy $543 million more than what it was actually worth. As a result local taxpayers copped it in the ear for the next five years. How could this happen? According to Wasatch County Assessor Maureen “Buff” Griffiths, a staff member may have dropped a phone on a computer keyboard, creating the typo that caused the countywide overvaluation. Whoops!

Like your typos a bit more risque? Well in the 1988 Yellow Pages (a phone book that existed before the Internet), an ad purchased by the Banner Travel agency was meant to espouse the company’s “exotic travel” options—instead, thanks to a typo by Pacific Bell, it advertised “erotic” travel destinations. Banner’s owner said the error cost her 80 percent of her business (primarily elderly customers) and was not assuaged when Bell waived the ad’s $230 monthly fee; she later sued for $10 million.

How does a thriving, 124-year-old family business with 250 employees go out of business in two short months? Blame the letter “s.” In 2015 the British government’s registrar of companies reported that Taylor & Sons, a family engineering business established in 1875, was being liquidated. The problem: it wasn’t. In fact, a completely different company named Taylor and Son (no ’s’ at the end) had gone belly-up, and the registrar didn’t catch the difference in spelling. Though the typo was corrected within three days, the damage to Taylor & Sons’ credibility was irreparable. Two months later they were, indeed, out of business—and a court found the government liable for the equivalent of a roughly 8.8 million pound legal bill.

Here's one involving beer. An eBay user learned the hard way that fortune (and spelling) can be fickle when he decided to auction a rare bottle of Allsopp’s Arctic Ale, brewed in 1852 and perfectly preserved. The beer should have fetched a small fortune from enthusiasts—if only the seller had spelled the name correctly. Accidentally labeled as “Allsop’s” (missing the second ’p’) in the auction title, the item did not appear when buyers searched for the beer by its proper name, resulting in a mere two bids and a lackluster sale at $304 ($5 more than the original $299 asking price). Eight weeks later, the lucky buyer listed the same bottle on eBay, though spelled correctly this time. After receiving 157 bids, the bottle sold for $503,300.

In 2006, Alitalia Airlines mistakenly listed a deal on flights from Toronto to Cyprus for only $39. They meant to say “$3,900,” but by the time the error could be corrected some 2,000 passengers had already booked flights at the epic low rate. Fearing the fallout of canceling those tickets, Alitalia decided to let their customers get away with the bargain —costing the company more than $7 million in losses.

None of these events were resimmed, but the perpetrators of the typos all learned very valuable lessons.

Enjoy the week fellas!​

 

[Ocha905]

Heres mine

Oh I can do trashy but fun country as well BC

 

[Barrybran]

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My fellow Wazzas, it's time to turn the pages of the Quinness World Records book and find some more feats in this week's edition of Know Your Opponents. This week we have the West Coast Wonders, where I could go down the old angle as they are a foundation club. I could do something about the successes they have accumulated over 38 seasons, or I could do something about the local fish & chip wrapper's obsession with their gun recr- oh wait, that's the other West Coast.

But I digress. Circumstances that played out over the past week have been the deciding influence on what chapter of the Quinness World Records book I read from this week. So please enjoy some of the Most Expensive Typos in the World.

I'll start with NASA's Mariner 1 mission in 1962, a mission that was meant to send a probe to Venus in the first interplanetary mission in US history. Except it didn't make it. A missing hyphen in the guidance code meant that NASA lost contact and the probe veered dangerously off course, and it blew up 293 seconds after launch. The cost of the mission was $18.5 million (nearly $150 million today), which led to Arthur C. Clarke dubbing the error "the most expensive hyphen in history".

Want a more expensive one? How about the housing development in Wasatch County, Utah. The 2019 tax assessment for this development was logged in at just under a billion dollars, which was a lazy $543 million more than what it was actually worth. As a result local taxpayers copped it in the ear for the next five years. How could this happen? According to Wasatch County Assessor Maureen “Buff” Griffiths, a staff member may have dropped a phone on a computer keyboard, creating the typo that caused the countywide overvaluation. Whoops!

Like your typos a bit more risque? Well in the 1988 Yellow Pages (a phone book that existed before the Internet), an ad purchased by the Banner Travel agency was meant to espouse the company’s “exotic travel” options—instead, thanks to a typo by Pacific Bell, it advertised “erotic” travel destinations. Banner’s owner said the error cost her 80 percent of her business (primarily elderly customers) and was not assuaged when Bell waived the ad’s $230 monthly fee; she later sued for $10 million.

How does a thriving, 124-year-old family business with 250 employees go out of business in two short months? Blame the letter “s.” In 2015 the British government’s registrar of companies reported that Taylor & Sons, a family engineering business established in 1875, was being liquidated. The problem: it wasn’t. In fact, a completely different company named Taylor and Son (no ’s’ at the end) had gone belly-up, and the registrar didn’t catch the difference in spelling. Though the typo was corrected within three days, the damage to Taylor & Sons’ credibility was irreparable. Two months later they were, indeed, out of business—and a court found the government liable for the equivalent of a roughly 8.8 million pound legal bill.

Here's one involving beer. An eBay user learned the hard way that fortune (and spelling) can be fickle when he decided to auction a rare bottle of Allsopp’s Arctic Ale, brewed in 1852 and perfectly preserved. The beer should have fetched a small fortune from enthusiasts—if only the seller had spelled the name correctly. Accidentally labeled as “Allsop’s” (missing the second ’p’) in the auction title, the item did not appear when buyers searched for the beer by its proper name, resulting in a mere two bids and a lackluster sale at $304 ($5 more than the original $299 asking price). Eight weeks later, the lucky buyer listed the same bottle on eBay, though spelled correctly this time. After receiving 157 bids, the bottle sold for $503,300.

In 2006, Alitalia Airlines mistakenly listed a deal on flights from Toronto to Cyprus for only $39. They meant to say “$3,900,” but by the time the error could be corrected some 2,000 passengers had already booked flights at the epic low rate. Fearing the fallout of canceling those tickets, Alitalia decided to let their customers get away with the bargain —costing the company more than $7 million in losses.

None of these events were resimmed, but the perpetrators of the typos all learned very valuable lessons.

Enjoy the week fellas!​

This was a good read. How is swapping an entire line a typo though? I can't say that I've ever accidentally Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V'd. It would be like tripping over a slightly uneven concrete paver only to realise what you have done and somehow trip over another uneven concrete paver.

 

[Ocha905]

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View attachment 2085785

My fellow Wazzas, it's time to turn the pages of the Quinness World Records book and find some more feats in this week's edition of Know Your Opponents. This week we have the West Coast Wonders, where I could go down the old angle as they are a foundation club. I could do something about the successes they have accumulated over 38 seasons, or I could do something about the local fish & chip wrapper's obsession with their gun recr- oh wait, that's the other West Coast.

But I digress. Circumstances that played out over the past week have been the deciding influence on what chapter of the Quinness World Records book I read from this week. So please enjoy some of the Most Expensive Typos in the World.

I'll start with NASA's Mariner 1 mission in 1962, a mission that was meant to send a probe to Venus in the first interplanetary mission in US history. Except it didn't make it. A missing hyphen in the guidance code meant that NASA lost contact and the probe veered dangerously off course, and it blew up 293 seconds after launch. The cost of the mission was $18.5 million (nearly $150 million today), which led to Arthur C. Clarke dubbing the error "the most expensive hyphen in history".

Want a more expensive one? How about the housing development in Wasatch County, Utah. The 2019 tax assessment for this development was logged in at just under a billion dollars, which was a lazy $543 million more than what it was actually worth. As a result local taxpayers copped it in the ear for the next five years. How could this happen? According to Wasatch County Assessor Maureen “Buff” Griffiths, a staff member may have dropped a phone on a computer keyboard, creating the typo that caused the countywide overvaluation. Whoops!

Like your typos a bit more risque? Well in the 1988 Yellow Pages (a phone book that existed before the Internet), an ad purchased by the Banner Travel agency was meant to espouse the company’s “exotic travel” options—instead, thanks to a typo by Pacific Bell, it advertised “erotic” travel destinations. Banner’s owner said the error cost her 80 percent of her business (primarily elderly customers) and was not assuaged when Bell waived the ad’s $230 monthly fee; she later sued for $10 million.

How does a thriving, 124-year-old family business with 250 employees go out of business in two short months? Blame the letter “s.” In 2015 the British government’s registrar of companies reported that Taylor & Sons, a family engineering business established in 1875, was being liquidated. The problem: it wasn’t. In fact, a completely different company named Taylor and Son (no ’s’ at the end) had gone belly-up, and the registrar didn’t catch the difference in spelling. Though the typo was corrected within three days, the damage to Taylor & Sons’ credibility was irreparable. Two months later they were, indeed, out of business—and a court found the government liable for the equivalent of a roughly 8.8 million pound legal bill.

Here's one involving beer. An eBay user learned the hard way that fortune (and spelling) can be fickle when he decided to auction a rare bottle of Allsopp’s Arctic Ale, brewed in 1852 and perfectly preserved. The beer should have fetched a small fortune from enthusiasts—if only the seller had spelled the name correctly. Accidentally labeled as “Allsop’s” (missing the second ’p’) in the auction title, the item did not appear when buyers searched for the beer by its proper name, resulting in a mere two bids and a lackluster sale at $304 ($5 more than the original $299 asking price). Eight weeks later, the lucky buyer listed the same bottle on eBay, though spelled correctly this time. After receiving 157 bids, the bottle sold for $503,300.

In 2006, Alitalia Airlines mistakenly listed a deal on flights from Toronto to Cyprus for only $39. They meant to say “$3,900,” but by the time the error could be corrected some 2,000 passengers had already booked flights at the epic low rate. Fearing the fallout of canceling those tickets, Alitalia decided to let their customers get away with the bargain —costing the company more than $7 million in losses.

None of these events were resimmed, but the perpetrators of the typos all learned very valuable lessons.

Enjoy the week fellas!​

Those stories are exceptional but I'd rather know Harley Reid's coffee order.

 

[AnUltimateRessie]

This was a good read. How is swapping an entire line a typo though? I can't say that I've ever accidentally Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V'd. It would be like tripping over a slightly uneven concrete paver only to realise what you have done and somehow trip over another uneven concrete paver.

still trying to figure that out ourselves. only way it makes sense is that he wrote the whole thing out instead of using the copy/paste function

 

[Barrybran]

still trying to figure that out ourselves. only way it makes sense is that he wrote the whole thing out instead of using the copy/paste function

Captaincy 101

1. Post teamsheet in team submission thread in round 1
2. Find posted teamsheet in round 2; click 'Reply'
3. Toggle BB code
4. Remove quote brackets
5. Click 'Post reply'
6. Repeat weekly

If anyone wants to change positions, tell them you're maximising their chances of winning awards and you value their contribution and feedback. Promptly ignore the request for the remainder of the season. Bonus points for recruiting said posters into the leadership group the following season.

 

[Dinsdale]

None of these events were resimmed, but the perpetrators of the typos all learned very valuable lessons.

 

[DenieD]

I would also like to know if DenieD's legs have been put on the right way or back to front

If Cubs2Lions has anything to say about it I'll have 4 arms, one leg and no head.

 

[Dinsdale]

Captaincy 101

1. Post teamsheet in team submission thread in round 1
2. Find posted teamsheet in round 2; click 'Reply'
3. Toggle BB code
4. Remove quote brackets
5. Click 'Post reply'
6. Repeat weekly

If anyone wants to change positions, tell them you're maximising their chances of winning awards and you value their contribution and feedback. Promptly ignore the request for the remainder of the season. Bonus points for recruiting said posters into the leadership group the following season.

Our steamed leader swapped all player's positions for 1 game and got it 101% right

 

[Barrybran]

If Cubs2Lions has anything to say about it I'll have 4 arms, one leg and no head.

If you're lucky, Weird Barbie might be into that

 

[Barrybran]

Our steamed leader swapped all player's positions for 1 game and got it 101% right

Pffft. Those are rookie numbers. I posted an entire teamsheet in binary across eight posts and didn't make a mistake.

 

[ClarkeM]

in season, yeah. what if you posted in the signup before we delist you so we can still relist you

I like the way you're thinking.

 

[Dinsdale]

Pffft. Those are rookie numbers. I posted an entire teamsheet in binary across eight posts and didn't make a mistake.

That would have been octal nerd!

 

[Barrybran]

That would have been octal nerd!

It was glorious if I may so myself

 

[AnUltimateRessie]

I like the way you're thinking.

we need one of those rule nerds to see if this will stand up in court

 

[ClarkeM]

we need one of those rule nerds to see if this will stand up in court

Don't look at those who flaunt the rules and make their own ones up!

 

[SSwans2011]

AnUltimateRessie don't tell the Swamprats

 

[AnUltimateRessie]

AnUltimateRessie don't tell the Swamprats

HE HAS STOOD! OH NO! WHAT DO YOU EVEN STAND FOR???

 

[Tonga Bob]

Pffft. Those are rookie numbers. I posted an entire teamsheet in binary across eight posts and didn't make a mistake.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

still trying to figure that out ourselves. only way it makes sense is that he wrote the whole thing out instead of using the copy/paste function

It’s the thought of this that keeps me awake. It’s also why I feel so protective of him.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Pffft. Those are rookie numbers. I posted an entire teamsheet in binary across eight posts and didn't make a mistake.

So dangerous they made rules to stop it happening again.