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incontinence?
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^_^
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Wow, that's pretty bad...
Main Entry: in·con·ti·nence Pronunciation: (')in-'känt-&n-&n(t)s Function: noun 1 : inability or failure to restrain sexual appetite 2 : inability of the body to control the evacuative functions
Captcha: ewww (my thoughts, exactly)
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That's so funny I'm going to pee and poop my pants.
really.
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Not to mention that May 18th is a Friday this year (unless this mail is from last year, then why did it take so long?)
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We just had the same thing happen to a customer service rep. Oh did we have a good laugh that day.
Ms. Burket, I do apologize for the incontinence you have experienced with the course. You may want to be sure that you are...
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It might not have been auto-correct. Maybe they really misspelled "inconvenience" and didn't pay attention when spell check replaced it.
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This is so funny I could just, well, shit.
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I had incontinence the whole time I was dealing with Sprint. Finally got them out of my system. :D
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This is one of several, well maybe dozens, of words that spell check should flag for special handling, e.g, "Auto-correct has replaced this word with the word 'incontinence.' Did you intend to be hilarious?"
-- Dave
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The real WTF is the massive horizontal scrolling.
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Because only just recently did wtf start publishing non-coding wtfs. So I only just submitted it.
Presumably, Sprint sent it to all their enterprise bizmail customers. Nice one, Sprint.
Captcha: ewww
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Soo... it was Enterprise-wide incontenance.
We're gonna need a bigger pooper-scooper.
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I had a similar thing happen in an email:
We would like to schedule a job interview with you for us. Please give us a phone call at your incontinence.
"Hello, I'm calling in regards to the job interview. One sec." [flush] "Are you still there?"
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How timely. Sprint just had an outage that affected one of our offices. I thought our IT manager was going to crap himself he was so mad.
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We are here for your incontinence.
Sincerely, Depends.com
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Our network admin once sent an e-mail to the entire organization and had the same autocorrect snafu happen to him. I swear you could hear a collective chuckle as people began reading it. Some people printed the e-mail and posted it on their bulletin board.
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Was the customer who received this pissed off?
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Yeap I've done this before.
CAPTCHA: tesla
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I hate when I the DB shytes all over the place...
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I was going to write something clever about incontinence, then I saw my captcha... "dubya" - yikes! Now that's worse than failure.
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Wow.. Just WOW, I just hope that this wasn't a massive letter to the corporate costumers.
Captcha: cognac.... Yes, it makes me pee!
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Meh, the autocorrect thing is just a typo. It's obvious what they meant.
The REAL WTF is that after making the change in the email, the outages table has both a "Sunday, May 18" and a "Thursday, May 18".
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I almost had incontinence myself when I read that.
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Every once in awhile there's a weird layout glitch that causes the page to render in an incredibly wide manner. Not sure what it is, but I've seen it myself.
Meanwhile: yes, about six years ago we had someone where I work misspell "inconvenience," and had the spell-checker sub in "incontinence" instead. She wasn't looking too carefully and accepted the replacement without complaint.
The letter went to a very important customer, and it was already an apology for doing something incorrectly. We all survived, though....
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm packed full of definition 1.
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I don't care who you are, that's funny right there!! :)
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Well, reminds me of putting in a proposal to an RFP that required about 500 people dialing into an AS/400.
My proposal read in part
"... and could even access the AS/400 from pubic phone boxes ..."
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On the homepage (but not on the individual article page), the containing the e-mail text scrolls horizontally until I enlarge the browser window to 1037px or so.
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On the homepage (but not on the individual article page), the containing the e-mail text scrolls horizontally until I enlarge the browser window to 1037px or so.
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On the homepage (but not on the individual article page), the containing the e-mail text scrolls horizontally until I enlarge the browser window to 1037px or so.
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Ok, the real WTF is the forum software in its entirety. Mods, please delete two of my three identical posts above.
CAPTCHA: burned
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Could be worse...
I sent sample code for using a new library to all our developers and didn't notice that I had spelled word count without the letter "o". Due to idiotic copy and paste, the c-bomb appeared multiple times.
Luckily our one female programmer had a sense of humor
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Reminds me of this email thread I had.
PM (broadcast to team, me CC'd): "He likes the second version of your examples very much. He would like you to ass a column for age, but that is all the changes he asked for."
ME: "I don't even wanna know how you "ass a column", but let me say I for one do NOT want XXX's job."
XXX: "That wouldn't be a Greek column would it?"
ME: "It's the flying buttresses that you really need to watch out for."
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Even the first sentence ("We apologize for this repeat message, however, it has come to our attention that there is a typo in the outage table below.") is a good indication that the message probably wasn't proofread or understood by the sender.
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Missing letter?
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Reminds me of some dinner invitations which went out for a company I used to work for.
"Please note african\american tie required."
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So if you can't hold it from Thursday to Sunday (or did they mean from Sunday to Thursday?), that counts as incontinence?
Or is that maybe even for a couple years -- from Thursday, May 18 in a year that has Thursday, May 18, until Sunday, May 18 in a year that has Sunday, May 18?
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Hunt - for females, apparently
Captcha: tastey -- yep, most are ;)
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Yeah, I've also had the unfortunate "accident" of having such a typo in an official email. Mis-type, spell check, carelessness over the choice of spelling correction and send is the recipe.
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Aunt
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I laughed so hard I peed my pants!!!!
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Okay, so this one time I sent out an email to all the managers in my department, where I stated that we had not fully anal sized (from analyzed) the problem. Autocorrect can be a big pain in the a**.
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He wasn't all that young, either.
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Someone at Microsoft needs to provide Office Pro with a dictionary that is missing certain terms (and an expanded dictionary including such terms as a selectable option). But then we'd be missing out such humorous exchanges. ;)