Typo of the week: Newspaper claims GOP divided over sex clams

It’s easy enough to overlooks typos, except when they’re front and center and this funny. Saturday’s Times Daily out of Florence, Alabama, says that the Republican Party is facing some internal conflict over something called “sex clams.”

Pay your copy editors. pic.twitter.com/QiwFSszE0f

— Benjamin Freed (@brfreed) November 11, 2017

There are unfortunate spelling errors, and then there's this. pic.twitter.com/hOct23xDBQ

— Ben Jones (@BW_Jones) November 11, 2017

https://twitter.com/seanagnew/status/929435476641112065

Disgraceful that we Americans cannot unify over sex clams https://t.co/vaO6J3Xbqu

— Dan Kois (@dankois) November 11, 2017

https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/929434977049169920

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/929394526313222144

Fishy. Very fishy. https://t.co/ozRK2wxDSV

— I Am Incorrigible FCA (@ImIncorrigible) November 11, 2017

No wonder newspapers are floundering. https://t.co/iBc7LdlXVp

— Suzanne Rent (@Suzanne_Rent) November 11, 2017

GOP must be real shellshocked rn ? https://t.co/a6TtApgDNR

— April Siese ? (@ayetalian) November 11, 2017

I did hear something about oysters being aphrodisiacs, but this is next-level. https://t.co/yAzXTnHwMq

— Bennett D. Bennett ♠️ (@BennettDBennett) November 11, 2017

@FTVLive Shucks https://t.co/LaYcau54zk

— Diamond Joe (@ItsDiamondJoe) November 11, 2017

https://twitter.com/FilmLadd/status/929404309732773890

There is only one stance to be taken on sex clams: anti. Very, very anti. We can all unite on this. https://t.co/ypcHhdOsZo

— Cody Worsham (@CodyWorsham) November 11, 2017

Sex Clams is my new highly divisive metal band. https://t.co/AXnueygRK6

— The Omnivore (@OmnivoreBlog) November 11, 2017

Wait until they hear about the stuff the oysters have been doing. https://t.co/Ekfz5O1MQr

— Fred McCormick (@Fred_McCormick_) November 11, 2017

We adults often call them vaginas, but have at it. https://t.co/tGykvzDtmt

— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) November 11, 2017

A curious mistake for a newspaper published in Mussel Shoals. https://t.co/4dchOWdgW7

— Adam Bonin (@adambonin) November 11, 2017

Someone needs to flex their editorial mussels https://t.co/LGGbqxQyCi

— MarcyJMiller (@MarcyJMiller) November 11, 2017

Worst dinner party ever https://t.co/SXbIYWFdIz

— perronaldinho (@Perronaldinho) November 11, 2017

Party is over when the sex clams show up. https://t.co/3mp7K3a6mG

— Marc Morehouse (@marcmorehouse) November 11, 2017

I usually don't like to turn my nose up at any food offered to me. I may have to make an exception for this. https://t.co/fVgrgUCSZx

— Stuffing-ham Braves Fan (Drew) (@bhambravesfan) November 11, 2017

Sounds like a heck of a party, don't wanna be shellfish but that's a hard pass. https://t.co/PLEZrX9qVk

— ??Dave Mayo‽?? (@pobocks) November 11, 2017

Any marine biologists care to weigh in on this? https://t.co/yyXRjfm8Qd

— Joe Whelan (@Joe_Whelan1) November 11, 2017

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