My mum once almost sent a country wide newsletter with a story praising the new Intel Penis.
Anyone else got some good ones?
I emailed an online retailer to bring to their attention that my credit card had been charged twice for one purchase. I received the following reply:
“This matter has been taken care of today. We apologize for any incontinence.”
Once I was spellchecking a letter and the addressee, Allan Maunder (yes, a double l) came back as “Anal Marauder”.
And there was a guy at high school - Azim Nagree, whose name came back as “Angry Negro”.
My name becomes “Shoeshine” when spell checked. I use this as a way to know whether my students are automatically accepting all spell check suggestions rather than looking at each one to evaluate it.
Some time ago the spellcheck bounced out ‘childcare’ and suggested ‘kidnapped’ … huh? (I think it was PageMaker)
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
-Sauce unknownBack in college our housing units were set up as suites. In other words, a group of three rooms had a common area and the whole shebang was one suite. Thus you had your roommate and your suitemates.
The word processor we had in the college’s computer lab didn’t recognize “suitemate” as a word. The suggested replacement? “Sodomite.”
When I was writing about Theda Bara, I ran the manuscript through Spellcheck and it turned her into Thud Bra.
Well, we came soveryclose to printing posters about a meeting that was “Open to the Pubic”. Whew!
I remember about a year ago seeing an article on ABCNEWS.com’s website about tobacco consumption in public areas that made reference (in the title no less) to “Pubic Smoking”. I emailed them and it was QUICKLY changed!
Reminds me a bit of the Nigger Inis debacle :).
Terrorcotta,
It was Microsoft Word 3.0 (certainly on the Mac, maybe on Windows, as well) that tagged “childcare” as misspelled, and suggested “kidnaper” (one p) as an alternate spelling.
I sent an email to an ebay customer named Trish, before I realized that spell check had changed it to Trash.
um, am I the only one who doesn’t let my spell checker change things without my approval??
For those of us who spent two minutes of our valuable time trying to figure out what “Intel Penis” was supposed to be, I think it’s “Intel Pentium”.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
I don’t…anymore.
The Intel P6. As I recall that was the pentium before they named it.
I used to work with a woman named Monique. When I was in a hurry and mispelled her name, one of the corrections was maniac. One time I accidentally hit the maniac choice for the correction before sending. Maybe not the funniest, but if you had worked with her, you would at least chuckle.
I knew a Myron Hammond who became Moron Humanoid
My last name (see if you can guess it from my username and this fact) is quite often replaced with “Smelley”.
grr.