# Funniest spellchecker missfires? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 25, 2002, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621 "2002-11-25T08:19:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/1 "2002-11-25T08:19:09Z")
My mum once almost sent a country wide newsletter with a story praising the new Intel Penis. Anyone else got some good ones? ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/2 "2002-11-25T08:34:14Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/3 "2002-11-25T10:51:02Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/4 "2002-11-25T11:25:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/5 "2002-11-25T12:44:35Z")
Some time ago the spellcheck bounced out ‘childcare’ and suggested ‘kidnapped’ … huh? (I think it was PageMaker) ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/6 "2002-11-25T13:11:22Z")
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 unknown ``` ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/7 "2002-11-25T14:08:02Z")
Back 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.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/8 "2002-11-25T14:50:50Z")
When I was writing about **Theda Bara** , I ran the manuscript through Spellcheck and it turned her into **Thud Bra**. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/9 "2002-11-25T16:50:19Z")
Well, we came soveryclose to printing posters about a meeting that was “Open to the Pubic”. Whew! ---
**Author:** ![cybersnark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@cybersnark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cybersnark)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/10 "2002-11-25T17:12:02Z")
I remember about a year ago seeing an article on [ABCNEWS.com](http://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! ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/11 "2002-11-25T21:47:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cybersnark \* > \*\*I remember about a year ago seeing an article on [ABCNEWS.com](http://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 :). ---
**Author:** ![Parrothead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/59ef9b/32.png) [@Parrothead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parrothead)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/12 "2002-11-25T22:19:48Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/13 "2002-11-25T23:13:14Z")
I sent an email to an ebay customer named Trish, before I realized that spell check had changed it to Trash. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/14 "2002-11-25T23:21:16Z")
um, am I the only one who doesn’t let my spell checker change things without my approval?? ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/15 "2002-11-25T23:25:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/16 "2002-11-25T23:28:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*um, am I the only one who doesn’t let my spell checker change things without my approval?? \*\* I don’t…anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/17 "2002-11-25T23:35:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jpeg Jones \* > \*\*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. \*\* The Intel P6. As I recall that was the pentium before they named it. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/18 "2002-11-26T00:05:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/19 "2002-11-26T00:39:54Z")
I knew a Myron Hammond who became Moron Humanoid ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/20 "2002-11-26T01:12:33Z")
My last name (see if you can guess it from my username and this fact) is quite often replaced with “Smelley”. grr. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621.md?page=2)