I’m proofing a manuscript that’s currently in production. These are author proofs, so they’ve already been copyedited and are full of author queries. One of these queries is about the author’s mention of the song “Papa Can You Hear Me?” from Yentl, recorded by Barbra Streisand. Unfortunately, there’s an extraneous space between Streis and and, making them appear as two different words, on two different lines. So the copyeditor left a query for the author, asking who recorded the song — Barbra Streis and…who else?
That I find this kind of thing amusing should tell you a lot about proofing manuscripts.