**MS Word presents....Jabberwocky!**
'Teas billing, and the slushy tones
Did gyre and gamble in the wave:
All mimes were the boogies,
And the mime rats outrage.
"Beware the Jabberwocky, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jujube bird, and shun
The furious Bandersnatch!"
He took his viral sword in hand:
Long time the manhole foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tutu tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in huffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwocky, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffing through the bulgy wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The viral blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwocky?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callow! Allay!'
He chortled in his joy.
'Teas billing, and the slushy tones
Did gyre and gamble in the wave;
All mimes were the boogies,
And the mime rats outrage.
You reminded me of when Maura McHugh was coaching for the Sacramento Monarchs of the WNBA. In an article about that women’s basketball team, her name appeared as “Aura Chug”.
About a year ago, my neighbor had vandals throw chunks of sod and dirt into her pool. She was peeved and delivered fliers to everyone in the neighborhood encouraging them to, “Be vigilante.” Heh.
Someone at my Fortune 500 retailer company once did this. From my email account. To a distribution list of 200 people. Including the CMO.
He was doing some reporting while I was on vacation so he just used my computer to do it. Instead of logging out and logging back in as himself, I gave him permission to use my email address as people were used to getting that email from me anyway. One night while I was on vacation, I decided to check my email and saw one from a coworker that said “You do know that incontinence is an inability to control your bodily functions, right?” I wondered what the hell that was about so I checked the Sent mail. Luckily I found it pretty funny and no one ever held it against me!
There is a well known cognitive psychologist called Ulric Neisser. His last name is pronounced “nicer,” however, the WordPerfect 5.1 spellchecker says he is Nastier.
I wonder if it was programmed by a disgruntled former student.
My dentist is an Indian lady named Savithri Ravindran, or (to the Thunderbird spellchecker) Mithridates Hindrances.
Spellchecker can lead you to make ill-advised corrections, but Word’s auto-correct feature can make those ill-advised corrections without you even noticing, as soon as you finish typing the word. It’s handy for me, when I type “teh” and it autocorrects to “the”. But it can also be used for evil purposes.
If you have access to someone else’s computer, you can fire up Word and edit the Autocorrect database, instructing it to replace particular misspellings (or even entirely correct spellings) with the word or phrase of your choice. For example, you can tell it to replace “manager” with “asshole manager”. or “programmer” with “code monkey”. Giant substitutions like that will be immediately obvious to the victim, but if you’re truly evil, you can get it to make more subtle substitutions that aren’t likely to be noticed until the document has been sent. For example, replace “Bob” with “Boob.”
OK, I know this thread is a bit old, but I couldn’t resist this one. My wife and I are currently in the process of legal separation. Her attorney’s name is Makupson. The spellchecker in Firefox just suggested to me that this should be Breakups.
I really dislike that they are not coming with context spell checkers, how hard would it be to tell them to stop and ask you if you mean “X” instead of “Z” when your “favorite” misspelled words are typed?
