I just have to share this one. Perhaps it will not be funny to anyone else - but right now I am pretty punchy from lack of sleep and it is hilarious to me.... Over the years, I have done most of my research on pigeons and rats. Recently, I have not had pigeons available, so it has pretty much been rats... So, early this morning I am revising a manuscript. I write the word "pigeons" and the word processor underlines it as being spelled wrong. This seems strange - it looks right to me - but I pretty tired (its about 4:00 AM) and I ask it to make suggestions for the correct spelling. The only suggestion it gives me? "rats" Baffled, I go on. A bit later, I need to write "pigeons" again. This time, it does not simply underline the word. No - as soon as I space past "pigeons" my omniscient word processor automatically changes the word to "rats" - apparently the word processor does not want me writing about pigeons, and in fact will not even let me do so! Perhaps it knows something I do not? I will really scream if this message to TIPS comes out with the word "pigeons" replaced with "rats" - then it will be time to lock myself away for a while.... -- Jim Dougan P.S. On a serious note, does anyone know what would make a word processor do this? I am using Word Perfect 7.0 on a Pentium machine. Up until now, it has never misbehaved like this before....
