# Can't sleep? Maybe you need "spleep" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928 "2010-03-10T00:06:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/1 "2010-03-10T00:06:42Z")
Would you trust a “life coach” who didn’t know the difference between [sleeping and spleeping](http://www.fredricksoncounseling.com/Newsletters.php?nl=4)? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/2 "2010-03-10T00:30:09Z")
WTF? Why can’t he splell ‘sleep’? ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/3 "2010-03-10T00:31:45Z")
I sent him an email, one word: SPLEEP! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/4 "2010-03-10T00:40:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/5 "2010-03-10T00:43:37Z")
That’s awesome. I love that word! SPLEEP!! Sounds like sleep-peeing. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/6 "2010-03-10T00:44:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/7 "2010-03-10T00:47:42Z")
This is weird [http://misty69stuff.blogspot.com/search?q=spleep](http://misty69stuff.blogspot.com/search?q=spleep) ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/8 "2010-03-10T00:50:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/9 "2010-03-10T05:02:30Z")
> [@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. :D:cool: ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/10 "2010-03-10T06:18:50Z")
I wish I could spleep. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/11 "2010-03-10T06:42:11Z")
I go spleep now. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/12 "2010-03-10T06:45:40Z")
> [@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_. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/13 "2010-03-10T07:14:30Z")
When I drink too much I seem to have a problem with sploop. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/14 "2010-03-10T08:08:07Z")
To spleep, perchance to dmream, Ay, there’s the rub. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/15 "2010-03-10T08:15:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/16 "2010-03-10T09:06:26Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/17 "2010-03-10T09:18:02Z")
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 \spleep\ 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. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/18 "2010-03-10T09:18:20Z")
It’s a silent p. ---
**Author:** ![rekkah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rekkah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rekkah)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/19 "2010-03-10T10:17:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928/20 "2010-03-10T12:39:50Z")
> [@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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cant-sleep-maybe-you-need-spleep/531928.md?page=2)