# Someone has stolen personal info - from this board!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-has-stolen-personal-info-from-this-board/501514>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 30, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-has-stolen-personal-info-from-this-board/501514 "2009-06-30T21:04:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![ashman165](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ashman165](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashman165)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-has-stolen-personal-info-from-this-board/501514/141 "2009-07-06T23:20:12Z")

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> [@InvisibleWombat](#):
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> No problem. Just smiling at the irony!
> 
> In his defense, that’s an easy error to make when editing a post. Let’s say I decided “easy” was the wrong adjective to use in my previous sentence, and changed it to “simple.” If I didn’t reread the sentence, I could easily (:)) be left with “an simple.”

There’s no irony here. It’s actually an immutable [law of nature](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law)!

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