Locking Bar Eglu Classic

[Goosey Lucy]

Well, that is what I for one will be calling it from now on

 

Me too!

[soapdragon]

*splutters* just choked on my risotto! Very good. I take it the letter didn't actually get as far as being posted?

 

Actually it was a fax as I had asked her to request specific info and then got a call later that day from 'Barry the Bank' as we affectionately called him (his name being Barry - doh!) asking if we were having a bad day! Luckily he thought it was funny too (This is the same chap who, when I popped into the branch to say goodbye as I was off on maternity leave, said 'oh you're pregnant are you; I just thought you'd let yourself go' ) -sorry, gone a bit off thread here but it just reminded me! I'm still fuming 9 years later!

[PapaJuliet]

When I was writing my thesis, I had a problem mistyping "field". It would always come out as "filed". I could watch myself typing the letters in the wrong order but couldn't stop myself. This was a bit awkward because my thesis was about electric motors & magnetic fields.

 

This wasn't nearly as bad as the student who, having completed his thesis, allegedly decided he'd spelled the word "tests" incorrectly so he added an extra "e" to every instance of the word. I'll leave it to the readers' imagination to decide where he added it.

 

PJ

[Lydia]

Accounts.

 

I can spell it fine but I can't type it - I get the second c and the o the wrong way round, which turns it into a bit of a rude word! Thing is I spent much of the '90s working for accountants so it cropped up daily! I was so pleased when Autocorrect was invented.

 

My husband once had a secretary who was Canadian and had only just come over to live in the UK. He gave her some audio typing and she returned the letter addressed to someone living in 'I Love Man'. She'd never heard of a place called Isle of Man so went for the next best thing!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I worked for the Scottish Sports Council years ago. Our annual accounts went out with a lovely report on martial arts. Except the 'i' and 't' were transposed . Spell check wouldn't have helped even if it had existed back then!

[soapdragon]

That's the thing about spell chucker isn't it? Its not foilsafe and you have to road through stuff anyway - just goes to show you cant relay on modern technology

[bluekarin]

Reminds me of a thing I read on Facebook recently

 

 

[soapdragon]

Possibly some cross referencing with the silly classified thread?