# Inadvertencies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2013, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065 "2013-08-01T09:27:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/1 "2013-08-01T09:27:26Z")
I just got an email from someone regarding some major changes in my life that mean I will be leaving a community service group we are both in > [@](#): > > … it has been a **primal age** serving with you … Oh, you mean to say that the 4 or so years I have been in the organisation have felt like **4.3 billion years**? 😃 Well, probably. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/2 "2013-08-01T12:56:36Z")
How does one make a typo like that? Did he misspell it and then just click through the corrections? ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/3 "2013-08-01T13:06:14Z")
Well, I’m guessing she was aiming for **privilege** , mistyped by brushing the space, and Autocorrect took over. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/4 "2013-08-01T13:36:08Z")
A few times during my career I’ve had the primal age of editing reports in which the author typed “asses” instead of “assess.” I’ve generally red-penned the error with something like “KEEP YOUR MIND ON YOUR WORK!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/5 "2013-08-01T13:45:05Z")
A work contact was having problems with a slow response from somebody. I urged them to poke the foot-dragger with a shart stick to get them moving. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/6 "2013-08-01T13:46:45Z")
> [@haunted pasta](#): > > a few times during my career i’ve had the primal age of editing reports in which the author typed “asses” instead of “assess.” i’ve generally red-penned the error with something like “keep your mind on your work!!!” “and off the donkeys” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/7 "2013-08-01T19:23:19Z")
I had to ask someone here what browser they use and apparently, it’s Firecox. I have Word set up to correct me when I spell “accounts” as “acocunts” (which I just did in composing this). And yes, writing a resume when your degree is in Public Policy is a minefield. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/8 "2013-08-01T19:46:46Z")
One of our sales guys once asked a customer to get back to him at his earliest continence. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/9 "2013-08-01T19:55:35Z")
Once in a rush to get groceries put away before company came to dinner I inadvertently put the toilet paper in the refrigerator and the milk who-knows where. It wouldn’t have been that big of a deal except that we were temporarily living in a one-room studio and when I opened the refrigerator to serve beverages my guests saw the toilet paper. Made for some funny jokes. My husband prefers milk with his dinner and I had to admit that I must have forgotten to pick some up. No milk in the appliance. It wasn’t until later in the evening after our guests had gone home that we found the milk in the bathroom. If they saw it they were too gracious to say anything. ---
**Author:** ![ASanders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asanders/32/3367_2.png) [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/10 "2013-08-01T20:18:42Z")
I had a boss named Tony who happened to be quite diminutive of stature. Often my customary email greeting “Hi Tony” would come out as “Ho Tiny” instead. Crying with laughter I would correct it… I can only hope I caught it every time. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/11 "2013-08-01T21:53:59Z")
In my haste to let someone know “message received”, I’ve often typed “Go tit.” I think I’ve caught them all. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/12 "2013-08-01T22:55:52Z")
My sister was once in a back and forth series of emails with a coworker. She needed to forward one email but it got lost in the ether. He wrote something to her to the effect that no one recieved it. She replied: “I _resent_ your email” He apologized for any rude tone he had. She was 😕 She, of course, meant _re-sent_ the email. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/13 "2013-08-02T07:31:13Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > One of our sales guys once asked a customer to get back to him at his earliest continence. Ah, so sometime around 5am 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/14 "2013-08-02T12:13:53Z")
One of my coworkers was draft a regulation and used Supplicant in place of Applicant. It wouldn’t have made any functional difference. But it would have been a nice change of atmosphere, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/15 "2013-08-03T02:07:39Z")
> [@Haunted\_Pasta](#): > > A few times during my career I’ve had the primal age of editing reports in which the author typed “asses” instead of “assess.” I’ve generally red-penned the error with something like “KEEP YOUR MIND ON YOUR WORK!!!” Reminds me of a joke I told on my husband, to his boss (our friend.) I said "Yeah, every once in a while people tell me what an asset he is to the company. As in, “Look at that ass settin’ over there!” Since husband really was an asset it went over better than the boss’s rendition of “Dickie Bird.” (He was British. The kids giggled in embarrassment.) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/16 "2013-08-03T03:02:55Z")
I’ve worked at a company that had applications whose acronyms were ASS and CUM. I honestly don’t know what they were thinking. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/17 "2013-08-03T06:49:53Z")
A nonprofit I volunteered at sent out an outreach mission statement describing the “undeserved” populations they helped. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/18 "2013-08-03T12:54:06Z")
I read a house advert at the weekend that said ‘all standard enmities included.’ ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/19 "2013-08-03T15:49:56Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I read a house advert at the weekend that said ‘all **standard enmities included**.’ Do I have to put them down on the info sheet for my new buyers, or can they be assumed? ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065/20 "2013-08-13T21:10:30Z")
The local supermarket today had a sign on the disabled toilet saying ‘Toilet out of order, sorry for any inconvince caused.’ Yeahh… _right_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inadvertencies/665065.md?page=2)