That reminds me of a story in RTE TV here in Ireland many years ago. Similar Situation, but it was the bloke who wrote up the autocue for the newsreaders who was a little disgruntled. In one news story about a post office robbery the newsreader read the autocue:-
"and the postmistress was held at gunpoint by two men, each carrying sawn off shitguns" Darren. -----Original Message----- From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 June 2005 22:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin' On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 20:21:57, gwicks wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) >I once made two lovely mistakes in a document I wrote about a salary >agreement for my trade union. It was in the pre-WP days but a spell checker >would not have helped. > >"Problems of staffing not caused by bad management" appeared as "Problems of >staffing not caused by bed management" > >and > >"Improved starting points for probation officers" appeared as "Improved >starting pints for probation officers". My favourite was a disgruntled secretary who was used as a typist in Ford KD operations in the late 60s. We produced charts with "Shipping Date" These were typed by her as "Shitting Date" and not spotted. We were -sure- she did it intentionally - t is an awful long way from p. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@<surname>.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
