The clbuttic mistake

The use of search-and-replace can lead to entertaining reading, such as this classic from the July 21, 1990, Fresno Bee via Herb Caen via Peter van der Linden:

An item in Thursday's Nation Digest about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts 'back into the African American.' That item should have said 'back in the black.'

(I was surprised to learn from the reputable Peter van der Linden that the original error was a prank, not an accident.)

A co-worker pointed me to an article that apparently underwent automatic online censorship. The headline reads:

CHRISTIAN loveUAL ABUSE CHURCHES TO PAY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS

and the article states:

Spokane's lawyers, like those in Portland, argued that the bishop holds "bare legal breastle" to the property and buttets that lawfully belong to the diocese's 81 parishes and affiliated enbreasties, such as schools and cemeteries.

The Daily WTF user ezrec has described this phenomenon as the "clbuttic mistake", pointing out that there are thousands of hits for "clbuttic" on Google and cautioning:

People who make buttumptions about their regex scripts, will be embarbutted when they repeat this mbuttive mistake.

I won't give the translations, but some kind commenter may.

gratuitious xkcd cartoon