Can't sleep? Maybe you need "spleep"

[Beware of Doug]

Would you trust a "life coach" who didn't know the difference between sleeping and spleeping?

[cmyk]

WTF? Why can't he splell 'sleep'?

[FloatyGimpy]

I sent him an email, one word: SPLEEP!

[Mangetout]

He must have been coding the HTML bold tags by hand, and has tried to save himself some time by copying and pasting the word 'sleep' (or 'spleep') along with its tags.

[Taomist]

That's awesome.
I love that word!

SPLEEP!!


Sounds like sleep-peeing.

[Mangetout]

Interestingly, from the Urban Dictionary (and predating the topic link by several years):

spleep
Noun describing a very short sleep.
*I fell aspleep during class today.
*Have a spleep before you start work.
*I like spleeping.

[Mangetout]

This is weird

http://misty69stuff.blogspot.com/search?q=spleep

[statsman1982]

It's well known that if you don't get enough spleep, eventually you'll pass out and require an amberlamps to get you to the hostipble.

[Soylent Juicy]

Originally Posted by statsman1982

It's well known that if you don't get enough spleep, eventually you'll pass out and require an amberlamps to get you to the hostipble.

^ THAT was awesome.

[Hockey Monkey]

I wish I could spleep.

[xanthous]

I go spleep now.

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by statsman1982

It's well known that if you don't get enough spleep, eventually you'll pass out and require an amberlamps to get you to the hostipble.

Perhaps you mean the ambliance, which you can see arriving, through your binocliars.

[MOIDALIZE]

When I drink too much I seem to have a problem with sploop.

[Mangetout]

To spleep, perchance to dmream,
Ay, there's the rub.

[Dervorin]

I can't believe no one's posted this quote from Fawlty Towers yet:

Sybil Fawlty: [about Manuel's rat] Perhaps it would be best to have it put to S-L-E-E-P.
Basil Fawlty: Who, him or the rat? Might get a discount if we have them both done.
Manuel: 'Spleep'?

Long, long before UrbanDictionary was a twinkle in the Internet's eye.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by Mangetout

He must have been coding the HTML bold tags by hand, and has tried to save himself some time by copying and pasting the word 'sleep' (or 'spleep') along with its tags.

I was trying to figure out why all the misspellings were bolded. It looked like someone had taken a page off the net and highlighted the repeated screw-up to show how bad it was, but from the URL, it looked like that was the page in its original context.

[Mangetout]

My first guess was a search-and-replace gone wrong, but there are other examples of the word in its correct spelling on the page - they just aren't bold - so I think he's decided he wants to emphasise the word 'sleep', so he's typed <b>spleep</b> once, then copied it, and pasted (with modifiers a~ and ~ing here and there), but apparently without ever noticing the original typo.

For some reason, the whole page just cracks me up completely.

[Punoqllads]

It's a silent p.

[rekkah]

I have to leave my house in 15 minutes to go to an important interview and I am currently crying with laughter. Thank God I hadn't done my make up yet.

[Marley23]

Originally Posted by Punoqllads

It's a silent p.

Let's see if that improves his text.

In today's crazy, hectic, million-things-to-do-in-a-day world, there's nothing more theraeutic than a good night's slee. But let's be honest how many of us get all the slee we need on a regular basis? More imortantly, how does slee lay a art in our emotional well-being?

One of the assessment questions I always ask new clients is, "How are you sleeing?" Invariably, most clients have some kind of slee issue, and it is no coincidence that emotional issues are imacted by not getting enough slee. Difficulty falling aslee, waking up too much during the slee rocess and sleeing too much are all things that affect a person who is struggling with worry, anxiety or deression.

Hmm. You may be on to something, unoqllads.

[dhkendall]

Strange, "sleep" is spelled correctly 13 times in the article (not counting within similarly correctly spelled words like "asleep" and "sleeping", nor similar correctly spelled instances within the article title). But none of those are bolded, strangely, all misspelled instances (except an "asleep") are bolded, even in the "Irish proverb" above (unless the proverb really is "spleep".

We-eird.

[Wile E]

Maybe he was spleep-typing?

[Machine Elf]

Originally Posted by xanthous

I go spleep now.

If you no spleep, your head asplode.

[Sunspace]

Spleep, sploop, splop, splash. Present, past, past perfect, result.

Originally Posted by Mangetout

To spleep, perchance to dmream,
Ay, there's the rub.

That's "rdub".

[Sage Rat]

Some chance that he just carried on the spleeping after starting out by saying that a joke is a good thing.

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

Can't breathe.

Laughing.

The dog is worried.

Spleep?!

[Skammer]

Is he some kind of spleep spepcialist?

[cmyk]

A spleep specialist would be great if you developed spleep splapnea.

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

Originally Posted by cmyk

A spleep specialist would be great if you developed spleep splapnea.

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

[Mangetout]

Originally Posted by Punoqllads

It's a silent p.

You mean as in bath?

[Punoqllads]

If there's a p in your bath, see a urologist.

[Marley23]

Originally Posted by Punoqllads

If there's a p in your bath, see a urologist.

No, you need to see a lumber.

[A Monkey With a Gun]

Originally Posted by Mangetout

To spleep, perchance to dmream,
Ay, there's the rub.

you missed a "p"

To spleep, perchance to dream,
Aye, there's the pub.

I don't know how much you drink, but I've splept in a pub

[Pyper]

A long spleep? Spleep hormones? I must not have been paying attention during sex (splex?) ed in high school.

[Mangetout]

Not as long as mine...


Not as long as mine.

[Mangetout]

Originally Posted by Punoqllads

If there's a p in your bath, see a urologist.

It's not a silent P if you stand up.

[Bootis]

Originally Posted by Mangetout

This is weird

http://misty69stuff.blogspot.com/search?q=spleep

Yes. What the hell is this. That's a grown woman writing that blog, with very frequent, fairly lengthy, and otherwise generally well written posts. But she seems to try to find any way possible to use the word "Spleep", with no explanation, as though its assumed by all that spleep is the correct word. Unlike the the example in the OP, spleep is the only form to be found. Not one sleep, even by accident. Over 40 Spleeps! What is happening? What is this madness?

[Marley23]

Originally Posted by Bootis

Yes. What the hell is this. That's a grown woman writing that blog, with very frequent, fairly lengthy, and otherwise generally well written posts. But she seems to try to find any way possible to use the word "Spleep", with no explanation, as though its assumed by all that spleep is the correct word. Unlike the the example in the OP, spleep is the only form to be found. Not one sleep, even by accident. Over 40 Spleeps! What is happening? What is this madness?

The really weird part is that the life coach posted his spleep entry back in September, but this woman has been using the word since at least February 2009. It must be an independent private joke.

[chappachula]

maybe it comes from the ancient Greek:
After all, I assume that Ptolemy splept well every night. Unless he had Pneumonia, or was dreaming of Pterodactyls.
Or maybe he had indigestion from eating too much with a spork.

[RickJay]

Originally Posted by chappachula

Or maybe he had indigestion from eating too much with a spork.

I wanted to spork Mrs. RickJay last night but she was spleeping.

[DesertDog]

Originally Posted by Marley23

The really weird part is that the life coach posted his spleep entry back in September, but this woman has been using the word since at least February 2009. It must be an independent private joke.

It's an upgrade from English 2.2 to 2.3 or even 3.0 Why weren't we notified?

[Lobsang]

It's catching. I was about to email the website. I tend to use an email address that is designed for spam. It has the word 'spam' in it. I typed it as 'pjlobley_splam@manx.net'

[tdn]

Before I read this thread, I was thinking about going to New York. Then I got that song in my head. Then I read this.

And now I'm singing "I want to wake up in the city that never spleeps."

[goodie]

I'm springing spexy back.

[MadTheSwine]

I think he has a spleech imediment.

[Mangetout]

Originally Posted by Bootis

Yes. What the hell is this. That's a grown woman writing that blog, with very frequent, fairly lengthy, and otherwise generally well written posts. But she seems to try to find any way possible to use the word "Spleep", with no explanation, as though its assumed by all that spleep is the correct word. Unlike the the example in the OP, spleep is the only form to be found. Not one sleep, even by accident. Over 40 Spleeps! What is happening? What is this madness?

I think she's probably picked it up from Fawlty Towers (mentioned upthread by Dervorin), and I think the article that is the topic of this thread is coincidentally similar because of some careless editing.

[Siam Sam]

I've heard whispers of spleeping in the Bangkok bars, but until I now I thought it simply an Urban Legend.

[F.Pu-du-he-pa-as]

Maybe he's a fan of Aspleep at the Wlheel.

Also, I believe that Shkakespreare had more to say on the subject of spleep:

King Henry IV, Part II
Act III, Scene I

O spleep, O gtlentle spleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And spteep my snenses in forgetfulness?
Why rather, spleep, liest thou in skmoky cbribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee
And hush'd with bzuzzing night-flies to thy sblumber,
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,
And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?
O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile
In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch
A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell?
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge
And in the visitation of the winds,
Who take the ruffian billows by the top,
Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them
With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds,
That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Canst thou, O prartial spleep, give thy rpepose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And in the calmest and most stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down!
Uneasy lies the hdead that wears a crnown.

[Try2B Comprehensive]

This is crazy. I am pretty sure my last girlfriend dumped me because I splept, while she could only spleep. It was odd to be quizzed on the subject, and odder that it created so much tension.

[Meow Max]

So, if you have trouble spleeping, do you try counting spheep?

Or, maybe you can take a spleeping spill.

Still, you can always trying drink a gplass of wparm mpilk to help you get to spleep.