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LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2939
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 10:26 pm: | 
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Looking over some of these thread titles, I realise that people don't necessarily check spelling before they hit the "send" button.
I recently sent out a broadcast email to everyone in my address book informing them of my new cell phone number. Needless to say, I typed in the wrong digit. Now some very nice man (who has the same first name as my husband) is getting all my calls. I sent out a correction but.. I can't believe how dumb I was not to carefully proof read it the first time. |
ML
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Username: Ml1
Post Number: 2909
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 10:28 pm: |
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This is a ridiculuos thread. I never make tpyos. |
Scully
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Username: Scully
Post Number: 114
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 7:29 am: |
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Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5145
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 7:53 am: |
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on an email I send out in the summer, I ask weekly who is in or out...one week, someone responded, "I'm in Hank". Failing to put a comma in that short sentence changed the possible meaning of it, as many on the list pointed out in one way or another. I vehemently denied that this person, or anyone on the list, was ever likely to be in me, however.
As for typos..I refuse to take responsibility for them...when they do happen, it is not my fault but the fault of the spellcheck for not picking them up. I dont make typos, my computer does. |
aquaman
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Username: Aquaman
Post Number: 677
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 9:12 am: |
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I once sent an email to my spouse. I meant to type, "See you later, I love you."
It accidentally came out "Why don't you go f*ck yourself you f*cking f*ck! You ruined my life!! Die Die Die DIE DIE DIE DIE"
Spell check sometimes misses those. |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5146
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 9:18 am: |
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seems like an honest mistake to me |
Eats Shoots & Leaves
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 2880
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 9:26 am: |
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Yes, Hank, oh that pesky punctuation. But, hey, we aren't really writing on line, are we? We are simply chatting, and no one speaks like this: "I am in apostrophe capital h Hank full stop" Why bother with silly things like commas when we send email (notice, it is "send" and not "write").
Oh, right, my avatar:
p.s. I actually hate punctuation and grammar; but I hate even more not being able to clearly understand what someone else is writing if the punctuation is missing or incorrect. |
Eats Shoots & Leaves
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 2881
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 9:29 am: |
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It is not a typo per se, but back in the days when fax machines were relatively new and the internet did not exist, a company faxed its bankruptcy filing information to its attorneys--only they accidentally faxed it to the Wall Street Journal, whose fax numher was one digit off from the attorney's.
You can have all the disclaimers you want on the cover sheet saying things like: "If this fax is not meant for you, you are to immediately shred it, poke your eyes out, and have a frontal lobotomy to erase your memory". If you fax it to the WSJ, it is going to see the light of newsprint. |
buzzsaw
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Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 3580
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 10:09 am: |
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There is a typo in just about everything I type on this board. At work, I use more cowbell and check it once or twice.
I can't say I have any big typos, but I did send an email meant for my wife to my boss. That wasn't great. |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 828
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 11:14 am: |
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Last week I sent out an email on behalf of my boss (to a distribution of 19 people)...and signed my own name.  |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 6580
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 12:45 pm: |
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My boss once received a ridiculous e-mail from Corporate, with the newest micromanagment instructions and an agenda with 17 items on it for a one-hour meeting. She sent it on to me with the comment "Is she out of her mind? Doesn't she have anything better to do"?
Only she didn't use the forward button......
That "Reply" is a nasty little e-mail feature.
I'm sure I've made some doozies, but my most consistent is transposing letters when typing my own name. It tends to be "Grneeetree" instead of "Greenetree".
Not the worst thing, but it makes one look like a bit of an idiot to spell one's own name wrong at the end of a correspondance. |
The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1293
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 12:47 pm: |
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Here's a copy/paste from an actual email I was cc'd on this week from a person with whom I'm hoping to do business - written to a third party with whom he's trying to "set up a meeting:'
I would like to wet up a meeting to show you some of the things he has done for other Pharma's. He has built several applications that I think you would really like.
Nice, huh? |
greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 6581
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 1:24 pm: |
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Oooooo-
my biggest, most hugest, all time nails-on-a-blackboard pet peeve:
The improper use of a possesive apostrophe! |
Lou
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Username: Flf
Post Number: 37
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 1:34 pm: |
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everytime i write the word "the" i have to go back to correct it, otherwise it comes out as "teh"... it's so annoying...
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Eats Shoots & Leaves
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 2890
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 1:45 pm: |
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Lou: It actually has to do with the wiring in your brain--it is as deeply engrained in who you are as your being left- or right-handed. Don't feel bad about it (although Word and other programs often catch it for you--it is a common crossover). |
growler
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Username: Growler
Post Number: 883
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 1:47 pm: |
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During college I was writing tons of poems to my then girlfriend. Unfortunately, instead of calling her "my little angel" or "angel" I kept writing "my little angle" or "angle". She said she thought it was cute and didn't want to correct me. 6 months later, she dumped me. I guess spelling really did matter after all. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11991
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 3:24 pm: |
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I had a woman boss with common first and last names. We worked at AT&T at a location with 6,000 employees. She got an email which was obviously a "wrong number". It said
Quote:Last night was great! Do you think your husband knows?
She decided not to do anything with it, but it seemed to me that it would have been fun to forward the email to all 6,000 people, saying, "is this yours?"
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The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1306
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 3:27 pm: |
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I was recently trying to schedule a meeting with about 6 people at Pfizer. I sent an email to the woman I was working with there and cc'd all the others. In part it said:
"Can you get us a room?"
Everyone thought it was pretty funny. |
Eats Shoots & Leaves
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 2900
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 3:33 pm: |
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Well, Tom, sure looks like she shared it with SOME of those 6,000 employees.......
Wonder what her lover thought when he called and asked, "hey, why didn't you answer my email?" "What email?" And then he checked his "sent mail" folder........Bet certain previously active parts of his anatomy shrivelled up and died. |
Lou
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Username: Flf
Post Number: 38
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 3:51 pm: |
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Yeah, ES&L, it's interesting to think about how the brain works - i guess is the same reason why i can't put my left shoe before my right shoe? Or why I can't put my left leg inside my pants first when getting dressed?...
well, either that or i can't type! |
Lydia
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Username: Lydial
Post Number: 1593
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 5:14 pm: |
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Best typo was on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - when Larry meant to write in a eulogy "Beloved Aunt" - but he typed a "C" instead of "A" in "Aunt". |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 1662
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 5:15 pm: |
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I work in prodcution
production, rather. I can't type it correctly.
It's very annoying.
most times I go back and check it |
Rastro
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Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2253
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 5:18 pm: |
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aquaman, no credits to Sam Kinneson (sp?) |
Rastro
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Username: Rastro
Post Number: 2254
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 5:20 pm: |
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Staying on topic, I ALWAYS spell "the" wrong. I either type teh or hte. The only way I get it right is if I'm thinking about it, or I use a spellchecker. In fact, I got a spellchecker for web posting mainly for this recurring mistake. |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 823
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 5:53 pm: |
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Greenetree,
Right up there with the improper use of a possessive apostrophe, for me at least, is the overuse of quote marks...some people put them around anything that moves.
I once sent out a broadcast email to the whole law firm at which I worked many years ago (still on DOS) saying something about skipping out a bit early - it was meant for a friend down the hall!
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AlleyGater
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Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1092
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 8:44 pm: |
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I once sent an email to my wife RANTING about how much I hated my coworker. Well the auto-address complete added my coworkers name (which starts with the same first 4 letters as my wife's name) and the moment I hit the SEND button I noticed the mistake. I audibly screamed F*CK!!! scaring all of my coworkers and marched right into the guys office and ate crow. I apologized up and down in everyway I could and just tried to explain why I was so angry at him.
SO EMBARESSING!!!!! |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2940
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 8:48 pm: |
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Many a time the words "Public Library" get changed when a certain letter is left out of the fist word of the phrase. Seen that typo many, many times.
Also a friend was sending out a broadcast to his local work group about a change in the office password. Unfortunately he sent the new password to the entire company. Passwords had to be changed one additional time. OOPS |
las
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Username: Las
Post Number: 830
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 11:38 pm: |
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This morning I sent an itinerary to the travel department with two dates:
Departure: Thursday February 2
Return: Friday February 2
They booked three flights, two rental cars and one hotel room all for February 2.
I also made three online purchases today and didn't mess up my credit card info once! Go figure... |
phyllis
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Username: Phyllis
Post Number: 470
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 6:33 am: |
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When I was orgranizing trainings, I used to have this weird habit of typing "seminary" instead of "seminar." I have no idea why I kept adding that letter Y. Never been to the seminary, never wanted to go to the seminary, don't have any family or friends in the seminary. |
The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1307
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 7:07 am: |
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LibraryLady....The "fist" word of the phrase Pubic Library? Hmmm... you've just created another typo to remember! |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2942
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 7:11 am: |
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Mr. Soul, I didn't notice that till after I had posted it , so in the interest on honesty, I didn't bother to correct it! And I wouldn't even be able to blame the lack of spell check as it wouldn't of picked it up. Oh well. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11996
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 1:39 pm: |
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Alleygater's story reminded me how I did that. I was writing an email to my lawyer about strategy about dealing with my ex-wife. I guess I meant to type my ex-wife's name in the "subject" field but put it in the "to" field instead, so I sent it *to* my ex-wife instead of my lawyer. Jeez.
But as luck had it, it didn't end up being so bad. But it could have been.
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happyman
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Username: Happyman
Post Number: 403
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 12:03 am: |
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Hank-
You reminded me of an old family inside joke:
I had a guy "Bill" who worked for me. He sometimes called my home late in the evening with questions. My husband would jokingly say "Bill this . .Bill that . . Your boyfriend Bill called!
One day my husband called home from work and asked what I was up to ... "I'm doing bills."
...It's still one of his favorites lines. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12009
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 12:07 pm: |
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At choral rehearsal last night, we broke out a new piece and noticed the tempo marking was quarter note = 10. They probably left off a zero. We had a laugh over that.
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