milpool (n.): a word that is miswritten or misspelled due to distraction, ideally with the misspelling including some element of the distraction.  see THINKO

The above definition comes from a Simpsons episode in which the Simpsons get a swimming pool but on a daring dive, Bart breaks his leg and thus can’t swim for the rest of the summer. Bart asks Milhouse to sign his cast, and Milhouse, trying desperately to get back to swimming, signs, “Get well soon, your friend, Milpool.”

Legendary link-list and notorious time-waster Fark.com has an ongoing meme known as FAIL, which basically involves pictures of boneheaded or generally unfortunate things (people holding telephones upside down, container ships capsized, a man trying to hitchhike while holding an axe) with the word FAIL written, preferably in Impact font, somewhere on the image.

Today, I saw the following FAIL post:

Moreover, it appears that this isn’t an isolated incident, but a recurring milpool:

I suppose this begs the question: are ending-matching milpools likelier than others? I don’t have any way of looking up errors of this type, but if anyone’s seen anything similar, do let us know, would you?

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