I'm a very fast typist, but I have terrible accuracy. This is less of a hindrance than it should be, thanks to all of the helpful spell check software that we have available to us these days (Firefox will even correct spelling in their browser now).
In my haste, "the" often ends up as "teh" and spaces between words can't be depended on with any sort of consistency. This is mostly annoying, but once in a while a typo will change the meaning of a sentence and serendipitious hilarity will ensue.
My coworkers and I have witnessed a few of these instances in corporate America. Once, an administrative assistant, in an attempt to direct us to the treat table, sent out a department-wide email asking people to visit the "teat table". Another time, an employee, while trying to complain that she was receiving too many messages from a manager, complained that she was "getting lots of massages from Bill."
When you live in a gray cube all day, this stuff could not be more entertaining.
I'm telling this story, because I almost committed this crime in an email about 30 minutes ago, and I'm still giggling like a 12 year old boy.
The phrase I intended to write: "Great random communication."
What I actually wrote: "Great ramdong communication."
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Happy to report I lived through those emails and still giggle to this day when I think about the teat table and massages from Bill (a Freudian slip if I ever heard one). What about the event in "Gland Island" or picking up "oders" at the Pizza Hut? Hilarious, and real typos from a corporate pub, perpetrated by our dear friend B.
Matt, I already e-mailed you this privately, but in my line of work, "prn fever" frequently becomes "porn fever" and Prilosec is Prilosex about half the time.
Gland Island? Ew.
I'm pretty sure Ramdong fought Godzilla in 1967
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