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
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