Things I find while I research

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Ilona |

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Mary Ruth says:
March 31, 2012 at 8:46 am

Gotta love those railroad maggots.
Richard Cartwright says:
March 31, 2012 at 9:14 am

Proofreading is dead, killed by spellcheckers and eaten by railroad maggots. (Too much?)
Terri says:
March 31, 2012 at 9:33 am

That’s really beyond a misspelling. How do you get maggots from magnates? What kind of spellcheck function is that? Maybe it’s the writer first, the editor second. Still, it’s pretty funny…
Louise says:
March 31, 2012 at 9:45 am

Heh heh!
Ljilja says:
March 31, 2012 at 9:55 am

Darn, who can compete with heavy burden of railroad maggots history…?
Arthemise says:
March 31, 2012 at 10:19 am

My job as a copy editor is secure. Well, as long as someone values not having horrendous typos.
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Chris, Head Zookeeper@The WilsonZoo says:
March 31, 2012 at 10:19 am

Maggots, magnates, same difference, right?
LynneW says:
March 31, 2012 at 10:24 am

I bet a lot of the railroad workers would have agreed with the description of the owners as maggots! heehee

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=A says:
March 31, 2012 at 10:56 am

I agree with LynneW. Looks like a Freudian slip, to me
Marsha says:
March 31, 2012 at 11:06 am

That reads like a true Freudian slip to me.
Jen says:
March 31, 2012 at 12:18 pm

I couldn’t even come up with the word “magnate” once I read maggot. From now on, whenever I see or hear the word magnate I will think “maggot”.
dameolga says:
March 31, 2012 at 12:53 pm

Lol. For a second there I thought “railroad maggot” was some kind of legit description I just never heard before. But nope, just a funny typo.
Dan B says:
March 31, 2012 at 2:58 pm

Accurate as written.
Trish Henry says:
March 31, 2012 at 5:13 pm

Awesome and perfectly true!
Beth says:
March 31, 2012 at 7:06 pm

Didn’t they have railroad maggots on CSI a few weeks back?

Gotta love homonyms.
- Beth says:
  March 31, 2012 at 7:08 pm
  
  (Though technically, since “maggot” and “magnate” aren’t really pronounced the same way, they’re not homonyms.)
Jess says:
March 31, 2012 at 8:47 pm

WTF LMAO ahahhahahahahahahahaa
Susan says:
April 1, 2012 at 12:16 am

Darn. This will be imbedded in my brain now and I will probably forevermore substitute maggot for magnate.

This was funny but, sadly, typos are pervasive in all media.
BillG says:
April 1, 2012 at 3:22 am

Freudian slip, typo or intentional, it seems a lot of folks equate the two. It seems to exert a magnateic attraction.
Chantal Halpin says:
April 1, 2012 at 6:15 am

I was reading it thinking, ‘What?’ but my head is fuzzy with flu, still there could be maggots – maybe the writer was just expressing personal opinion…
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smileygirl3090 says:
April 1, 2012 at 9:16 am

I actually couldn’t work out what the author should have written until I read other peoples comments… I was sat their stumped thinking, is this some weird term for railroad workers? How can they all afford houses like that? Magnates makes more sense…
nuitblanche' says:
April 1, 2012 at 1:56 pm

I was wondering; do maggots only each decaying flesh say from the unfortunate rail hitching drifters and unwitting, familiarly targeted lumbar barons after they hatch into grubs? Or do they ever acquire a taste for wood and those lovely Victorian Houses owned by the maggots themselves (eating themselves out of house and home, so to speak) and sometimes those greedy, untitled barons who kicked the bucket prematurely?
Sara K. says:
April 1, 2012 at 8:29 pm

Freudian slip, IMO………..
Cheryl Mason says:
April 1, 2012 at 9:29 pm

I guess the railroad maggots put in the “bone charring bumps” in the level crossing in the middle of our city. Yes, that is a direct quote from the op-ed page of the daily newspaper 6 months after I was turned down for a proof-reading position at said newspaper! I never did find any burnt bones.
Keri says:
April 1, 2012 at 9:56 pm

*snort*
Dingo Baby says:
April 2, 2012 at 4:15 pm

Maggots, magnates,
To-maa-to, to-mah-to

That was quite funny.