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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

666.0. "jolly typos" by IJSAPL::ELSENAAR (Fractal of the universe) Thu May 11 1989 13:54

Every now and then I encounter a "jolly typo". Someone must have had very
specific ideas in mind, tried to write down something else, and introduces a
typo that shows what (s)he *really* wanted to convey. Of course, Freudian slips
are a subset of this, but I find those typos too limited in area ;-)

This morning I encountered a beauty. Someone wrote to me that he had access to
the Digital network from home, and what he *really* wanted to convey was that he
didn't like it: too "agressive"; intruding in his household. He wrote:

".... I have a ternimal at home...."

So I wrote back: "Does your ternimal byte?"....
(and I expect him to answer: "It is not my ternimal..." ;-))




Another one is, I'm afraid, Dutch. We do use the word software, but it's amazing
how often the "t" is forgotten when someone complains about it. "Sofware"
literally means "lousy ware".

Anyone else encountered "jolly typos"?

Arie
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666.1REGENT::BROOMHEADI'll pick a white rose with Plantagenet.Fri May 12 1989 20:448
    I saw one just this morning:
    
    ...  When my boos saw some of the samples...
    
    "Boos" should be "boss", of course.  But was the author really
    thinking of, ah, negative congratulations or of little errors?
    
    						Ann B.
666.2Sounds more like the truthVINO::MCGLINCHEYSancho! My Armor! My TECO Macros!Mon May 15 1989 23:046
    
    
    I once created the typo "specifiction" in a manual I was
    writing. I kept it that way, to see who'd notice.
    
    -- Glinch
666.3You do mean Book Build??"WHEEL::SWINIARSKINANcy--*NANSKI*--SwiniarSKIWed May 24 1989 20:376
    I got a mail message one time stating that the system was going to be
    off limits to us over the weekend so that the publishing group could
    work on an urgent "Boob Build"   -   They were referring to the term 
    BOOK Build.
    
     
666.4Definitely FreudianSHARE::SATOWWed May 24 1989 20:4810
My manager on a previous job sent out a mail message referring to a Rainbow 
equipped with

[crude, vulgar comment follows]

 
a hard dick
    
     

666.5Once it Was OfficialSEAPEN::PHIPPSDTN 225-4959Thu May 25 1989 00:524
        One edition of the EL-Class Document Directory listed DEC
        Standard 154 as being for the FLOPPY form of that device.

        	Mike
666.6GALLOP::COOPERMIt's a Bee-u-tiful place bob !Thu May 25 1989 14:253
    This is obviously an easy mistake to make - it was only about three
    weeks ago that a press release was distributed around the office,
    proclaiming digitals new solid state dick. 
666.7So heard any good ones lately?SHARE::SATOWFri Jun 02 1989 20:4312
from a Digital internal memo -- in his defense, English may not have been the 
speakers native language

>         As you all know, we encourage the usage of Computer 
>    Conferencing (VAXnote) . . .
    
>         We have however noticed that a small percentage of our 
>    employees utilize this facility for discussion on topics which are 
>    of offensive nature (ethical and sexual jokes) or at least of bad 
			  ^^^^^^^
>    taste.
    
666.8Ethical jokes anyone?WELMTS::HILLTechnology is my Vorpal swordWed Jun 07 1989 14:076
    -1
    
    But some people may find ethical jokes offensive... I can't think of
    anyone in particular at the moment, has anyone got any suggestions?
    
    :-)
666.9okay, here's oneLESCOM::KALLISAnger's no replacement for reason.Wed Jun 07 1989 15:3514
    Ethical joke:
    
    Two golfers, Pat and Leslie, were playing the seventh hole.  Pat
    sliced the ball, and both he and Leslie went looking for it in the
    rough near the hole.  Sufddenly, Lerslie heard a thump, and saw
    a ball landing on the green, rolling towards the hole, but stopping
    short.
    
    "Two strokes," said Pat.
    
    What should Leslie's response be, seeing as he has Pat's ball in
    his pocket?
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.
666.10SHARE::SATOWTue Nov 28 1989 22:216
Back to typos.  I just sent out a memo with the heading

	FOR INTERNAL US ONLY


Clay
666.11From My CollectionSHALOT::ANDERSONGive me a U, give me a TThu Mar 15 1990 21:0617
	o  A chapter in a manual called "Helful Hints"

	o  Geogia, Wyomia, Califonia, Los Anglos -- an Englishman's
	   idea of some U.S. states

	o  "A string ... will be parsed in the European manor"

	o  "VMSINSTAL ... asks you a serif of questions" (reviewer wrote
	   "use less obscure word")

	o  "The ability to integrate all fuctions" -- beginning of a DEC
	   ad

	o  "Cliff just resently ... reviewed the XYZ interface" -- from
	   a memo

		-- Cliff
666.12Our next `Bible'SHARE::SATOWFri Apr 27 1990 15:296
From:	XXVAX::XXXXXXX 26-APR-1990 16:32:42.09
To:	@[XXXXX.DIS]XXXX.DIS
CC:	YYYYYYYY
Subj:	Timetable for ZZZZ Reverence Handbook Review
			   ^^^^^^^^^

666.13HLDE01::STEENWINKELMostly HarmlessThu Jan 20 1994 06:3315
    From a flyer I received yesterday (computer surplus store junkmail), in
    reference to some test program:
    
    "can test serial and parallel ports using a lookback connector"
    
    ... PC gets a little retrospective ...
    
    "the selected tests can be saved to a text file which can then be run
    from a bath file"
    
    ... soaked your computer lately? 
    
                                                        
                                                  - Rik -