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What's the most entertaining/ridiculous typo you've ever made that was seen by, you know, people?
I once wrote in a manuscript intended for publication, sent to half a dozen coauthors, some at other institutions, "...men who have sex with men (MSM)..." except I missed ONE GODDAMN LETTER.
My colleagues all informed me, with varying levels of amusement, that I had actually written "...men who have sex with me (MSM)..."
Pretty big bang for that tiny buck.
Mary's take. I hadn't thought of it like that, but from that angle this is pretty interesting.
The Hat Man. I saw the tumblr meme a few years ago (already a few years after it was made). It's funny. Telling Mary about it, I did a quick online search.
Our #culture apparently can't leave anything alone. Maybe, with the death of the monoculture, we're all desperate for some shared references. Maybe some Very Online People have made little micro-cultural groups that spread through larger cultures like mycelia.
There is now a little subgenre of Hat Man merch (t-shirts, etc.) and at least one low-budget horror movie titled The Hat Man, so #capitalism had to get its hand in, too.
This makes me simultaneously more and less interested in The Hat Man as a phenomenon.
@juergen_hubert You sound like a very good friend 