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

[AnUltimateRessie]

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

I haven't slept since

 

[Barrybran]

So dangerous they made rules to stop it happening again.

Do it Tonga Bob

 

[Tonga Bob]

So dangerous they made rules to stop it happening again.

Do it Tonga Bob

 

[HARPSichord]

I haven't slept since

What do you like to do at 3am?

 

[AnUltimateRessie]

What do you like to do at 3am?

i can think of two things

 

[HARPSichord]

i can think of two things

 

[ClarkeM]

Is this your first misdemeanour in charge AnUltimateRessie?

 

[AnUltimateRessie]

Is this your first misdemeanour in charge AnUltimateRessie?

in Sweet or in general? two different answers

 

[HARPSichord]

in Sweet or in general? two different answers

Ooooh, story time!

 

[FootyGuy13]

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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!​

You disappoint me. How could you skip this typo?

Penguin reprints book, peppered with an error, wants it taken with grain of salt

PENGUIN GROUP AUSTRALIA turns over $120 million a year from printing words but a one-word misprint has cost it dearly.

www.smh.com.au

 

[AnUltimateRessie]

Ooooh, story time!

ill ask the lawyer

 

[Dinsdale]

i can think of two things

Regret not using a capital letter at the start of your post should be one if them.

 

[pantskyle]

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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!​

Sorry but not going to bother this week when in all likelihood it'll be re-simmed.

Oh wait it's the Wonders so not likely to get a re-sim

 

[SSwans2011]

Oh wait it's the Wonders so not likely to get a re-sim

Wonders will be appealing, don't you worry.

 

[AnUltimateRessie]

Regret not using a capital letter at the start of your post should be one if them.

no

 

[AnUltimateRessie]

Sorry but not going to bother this week when in all likelihood it'll be re-simmed.

Oh wait it's the Wonders so not likely to get a re-sim

apparently it is resim and not re-sim

 

[Tonga Bob]

You disappoint me. How could you skip this typo?

Penguin reprints book, peppered with an error, wants it taken with grain of salt

PENGUIN GROUP AUSTRALIA turns over $120 million a year from printing words but a one-word misprint has cost it dearly.

www.smh.com.au

Delicious!

 

[spudmaster]

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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!​

Ooh thanks for the tag - haven't gotten into the groove yet this season and keep forgetting which day of the week which Friday the thread pops up. [yeah yeah, same as every other season, SHUTUP!]

Good evening Wonders and fellow victorious Wazzas

 

[Tonga Bob]

apparently it is resim and not re-sim

My brother in Christ don’t try sending any rockets to Venus.

 

[pantskyle]

Wonders will be appealing, don't you worry.

Wonders are never appealing.

 

[pantskyle]

apparently it is resim and not re-sim

Apparently it's neither for the Wonders.

 

[spudmaster]

fun fact: resim backwards is miser
"a person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible."

 

[Dinsdale]

no

Lol, you missed it, I need new bait

 

[Dinsdale]

Wonders are never appealing.

We could skin them, then they'd be a peeling, I'll get my 3rd favourite knife

 

[AnUltimateRessie]

My brother in Christ don’t try sending any rockets to Venus.

Don't you mean RESIM?

At least GET it right if YOU ARE going to toss AROUND the r WORD.