OT - Embarrassing typos
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OT - Embarrassing typos
That damned spell-checker...
I just sent an email about a Visa card whose mag stripe had been tampered with. A new Visa number had been encoded on the mag stripe.
In my email to my co-workers, some of them highly placed, I called it the "re-endowed" Visa card... that damned spellchecker...
(It was supposed to read "re-encoded")
I'm sure they're having a well-deserved chuckle at my expense right now... dammit...!!
I just sent an email about a Visa card whose mag stripe had been tampered with. A new Visa number had been encoded on the mag stripe.
In my email to my co-workers, some of them highly placed, I called it the "re-endowed" Visa card... that damned spellchecker...
(It was supposed to read "re-encoded")
I'm sure they're having a well-deserved chuckle at my expense right now... dammit...!!
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Ooh, that's a good one...
It reminds me of the Toronto subway poster I saw once about famous songs that nobody ever gets the right words to. My favorite was "Blinded by the light, ripped up like a loofah by the foreman in the night..." which is hilarious if you really think those are the correct words...
Not sure why I thought of that, come to think of it, it's not exactly the same thing...
But it's comforting :roll:
It reminds me of the Toronto subway poster I saw once about famous songs that nobody ever gets the right words to. My favorite was "Blinded by the light, ripped up like a loofah by the foreman in the night..." which is hilarious if you really think those are the correct words...
Not sure why I thought of that, come to think of it, it's not exactly the same thing...
But it's comforting :roll:
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I LOVE that song, precisely because there are so many wonderful ways to mis-hear it.moxy wrote:Ooh, that's a good one...
It reminds me of the Toronto subway poster I saw once about famous songs that nobody ever gets the right words to. My favorite was "Blinded by the light, ripped up like a loofah by the foreman in the night..." which is hilarious if you really think those are the correct words...
Not sure why I thought of that, come to think of it, it's not exactly the same thing...
But it's comforting :roll:
http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/b ... ight.shtml
I was going to quote a few, but then I remembered that this is ostensibly a family site. But I can't resist:
"Blinded by your thighs
Grabbed up by douche, another robot in the night."
Though I'm sure he didn't really think it was "thighs".
"Another Robot in the Night"--that'd make a pretty good name for a band!
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The correct words aremoxy wrote:Ooh, that's a good one...
It reminds me of the Toronto subway poster I saw once about famous songs that nobody ever gets the right words to. My favorite was "Blinded by the light, ripped up like a loofah by the foreman in the night..." which is hilarious if you really think those are the correct words...
revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
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Love the one about the Venusians... That's too funny...Jeff Guevin wrote: I LOVE that song, precisely because there are so many wonderful ways to mis-hear it.
http://www.amiright.com/misheard/song/b ... ight.shtml
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Could've been worse, you could've said intermittent softwarejolsen wrote:I sent a resume out once where I had mentioned that I worked on "internet software" and it came out "interment software". Nope, I've never actually written any graveyard management code. Funny part is I got the job.
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The Internet is wonderful. Surely there have always been thousands of people deeply concerned about my sex life and the quality of my septic tank but before the Internet I never heard from any of them.
Still better than incontinent softwareOutOfBreath wrote:Could've been worse, you could've said intermittent softwarejolsen wrote:I sent a resume out once where I had mentioned that I worked on "internet software" and it came out "interment software". Nope, I've never actually written any graveyard management code. Funny part is I got the job.
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Or interminable hardware.DCrom wrote:Still better than incontinent softwareOutOfBreath wrote:Could've been worse, you could've said intermittent softwarejolsen wrote:I sent a resume out once where I had mentioned that I worked on "internet software" and it came out "interment software". Nope, I've never actually written any graveyard management code. Funny part is I got the job.
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As far as misheard song lyrics go, my favorite is still "Don't go out tonight, it's bound to take your life, there's a bathroom on the right!"
As far as embarrassing bloopers go, our former rector's about takes the cake. She was attempting to chant the Eucharistic prayer (I say "attempting" because she couldn't carry a tune in a bucket) and, instead of chanting "his glorious ressurection"...well, let's just say she missed the "ress" part.
Maybe that's why she hated the choir, come to think of it. We'd been trying to maintain as she changed keys 10 times during the prayer, and when she did that, we all lost it simultaneously!
Did I mention she's no longer with us? (for reasons that have nothing to do with her blooper and everything to do with her attitude...but that's another story!)
Redwolf
As far as embarrassing bloopers go, our former rector's about takes the cake. She was attempting to chant the Eucharistic prayer (I say "attempting" because she couldn't carry a tune in a bucket) and, instead of chanting "his glorious ressurection"...well, let's just say she missed the "ress" part.
Maybe that's why she hated the choir, come to think of it. We'd been trying to maintain as she changed keys 10 times during the prayer, and when she did that, we all lost it simultaneously!
Did I mention she's no longer with us? (for reasons that have nothing to do with her blooper and everything to do with her attitude...but that's another story!)
Redwolf
...agus déanfaidh mé do mholadh ar an gcruit a Dhia, a Dhia liom!
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My most embarassing is another misspeak.
In 8th grade social studies we were reading about the dawn of man, and I got called on to read aloud. I'm kind of a speed reader, and my tongue can never keep up with my eyes. So when I got to "homo sapiens" I said "homo sa{enter male genitalia here} and was absolutely horrified. I still shudder. 8th grade! Yikes.
Caroline
In 8th grade social studies we were reading about the dawn of man, and I got called on to read aloud. I'm kind of a speed reader, and my tongue can never keep up with my eyes. So when I got to "homo sapiens" I said "homo sa{enter male genitalia here} and was absolutely horrified. I still shudder. 8th grade! Yikes.
Caroline