| 10/22/2007 3:22:50 AM |
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lawvixen
Oldsmar, FL
age: 54
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Mine is: after exchanging a few emails getting to know a pleasant gentleman through a dating site, I wrote him an email stating I was sitting on a huge dock, rocking back and forth, and thinking about him wishing he was there with me....unfortunately DOCK was misspelled with a typo (or a freudian slip). Well, you get the picture.
Word to the wise, PROOFREAD before sending..... hmmm I wonder whatever happened to that ban, oops I mean man?.......................
[Edited 10/22/2007 3:31:58 AM]
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| 10/22/2007 4:45:18 AM |
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sadlyalone
Charlottesville, VA
age: 69
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My funniest TYPO, although not a TYPO, is a Forum other than this one, in an effort to keep things on the up and up fill in words that they consider risque with **bleep**. I remember a while back a few of us were discussing politics, and using the more popular names given to top ranking officials, much to our surprise, that after a few minutes the threads came up on the Forum. **bleep"" Cheney, George W. **bleep"", **bleep** cottontail, I will let you fill in the rest. As I understand it, from a DJ whose first name was D*ck, on the radio the other day, that the Virginia DMV. would not even let him continue, when he typed in a word that was considered risque. He received a message to the effect, "please refrain from using body parts in your text, correct to continue".  Can you just imagine the far reaching effect that this may have. Imagine if you will a recipe: Chicken **bleep** with mushrooms and sour **bleep**
Take 2 **bleep** of flour
Add 1 **bleep** of sour **bleep**
Take 1 **bleep** of lettuce
Everything will take on like an edited episode of Soprannos.
[Edited 10/22/2007 4:55:03 AM]
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| 10/22/2007 4:49:27 AM |
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cheygirl
Cheyenne, WY
age: 42
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One of my docs was doing a medical presentation to a bunch of residents on GERD. So I wrote up this huge powerpoint presentation for him and sent him on his merry way to present it. He comes into my office after the meeting with half a smile on his face. He says VERY funny - at least you woke them all up. I didnt know what he was talking about. In the middle of the presentation, in the middle of a slide I had typed SEX. 
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| 10/22/2007 4:58:53 AM |
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sadlyalone
Charlottesville, VA
age: 69
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cheygirl: how did you take it, some shy people would have crawled under a rock. 
you can thank your lucky stars, it could have been worse. When I worked for a state agency up North when I was younger, a phone book was produced for internal distribution, and amounted to 30,000 copies. It was computer generated, with an online program to do corrections and add last minute people. A new family had just moved into town, and much to our surprise, that the books were published and distributed. The family's name was Fuchs, needless to say, since I was the project manager on this, I took a lot of heat. Hence, the developement of a spell checker. The problem was, that nobody, and I don't blame them, wanted to write the code. It had to be outsourced to a Third party vendor, they have in all honesty made a bundle. Another time, when software developement was in its infancy, when a message like this is created, and the Enter, Post or Any key was depressed, it would be saved in the Database and a randomizing routine would generate a 4 letter password, which you had to use to retrieve it. It did not take long to discover that the vowels were removed from the routine.
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| 10/22/2007 5:02:21 AM |
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cheygirl
Cheyenne, WY
age: 42
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Well he was laughing as he told me the story so I laughed along. People in the medical field tend to be on the twisted side anyhow, but this was an older doctor. That was one I didnt live down for a long time.
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| 10/22/2007 5:26:21 AM |
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sadlyalone
Charlottesville, VA
age: 69
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cheygirl: Having worked for Universities with hospitals, for the most of my life, one has to have a sense of humor or be twisted, it is the only way to stay sane. I know, there are those out there who think that the medical profession has to be straight laced. I had a class mate in high school who went on to be a Doctor, he was also a strong Christian in our Church. It is enough to have to deal with Body or Soul, but to take the load of both on at one time is a double whammy, considering the fact that he was an extremely serious person, I remember him telling only one joke in my presence anyway. By the time he retired at 65, he looked and acted like 80. Lets give support to our Medical profession and all of their support people. My hat is off to you. 
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| 10/22/2007 10:29:04 AM |
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qazyguy
Rockville, MD
age: 53
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Well, it's not really a typo, but I typed my Yahoo screen name into my webmail account.
I wonder if anyone reading the logs got a chuckle when they say the name istrip4girls.
JIM
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| 10/22/2007 12:19:49 PM |
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cmed68
Poquoson, VA
age: 63
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This did not happen to me but to a message center employee (civilian type) in a Navy message center. Instead of typing this requirement he typed (you guessed it) shit requirement. The next day the officer that drafted the message approached this man who was somewhat embarassed. The officer assured him no need to be embarassed and told him his version better describes the requirment.
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| 10/22/2007 1:28:42 PM |
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butterfly58
Arcadia, MO
age: 58
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When I graduated from High School I went to work as a typist for a major insurance company. What I did was just address many many envelopes to all different businesses and companies for the insurance salesmen. One day after about a month, I had a salesman come to me and said "FYI the abbreviation for association is assoc. not ASS."
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| 10/22/2007 2:02:30 PM |
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trublu5ft2
Columbia, TN
age: 50
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I had been in contact with someone from another site but got busy for awhile and quite responding to his emails. Finally had time to check mail and had one from it. It said,
Ho.. are you going to ever write? I responded with why in the hell are you calling me a ho??!! His response was, OMG I am sooooooo sorry!!!! That was a TYPO! It was suppose to saay, " Hi.. are you ever going to write!
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