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From: st7rb @ jetson.uh.edu (David Alten)
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Subject: [alt.sysadmin.recovery] love that spelling checker
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Date: 19 May 1995 14:00:05 GMT
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From: erwin @ fritz.cuug.ab.ca (Erwin Fritz)
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Subject: love that spelling checker

Friday was probably the funniest day in a long while.  Here's what happened:

One of our PCs at the office is a Pentium 60.  One of our guys at the office 
had to make some configuration changes to that machine along with a couple of
others.  He did so and emailed me (using Microsoft Mail) about it so I'd know
about it.

Changing names to protect the innocent, what he said was "Erwin, I fixed
Bill's PC, Roger's PC and the Pentium".  Unfortunately for him, he had his
Microsoft Mail spelling checker on.

Now, this spell checker doesn't prompt you for replacements when it doesn't
recognize a word.  It just makes the substitution for you!  So, when I finally
got the email, it went like this: "Erwin, I fixed Bill's PC, Roger's PC and the
penis"!

At first I thought "hmmm, was he thinking of something else while typing (and
should I be nervous?".  Someone else in the office saw this (because I had to
show this to a couple of other people) and figured out what happened.

For the rest of the day, we bugged him with lines like "is that a Pentium in 
your pocket or are you glad to see me?".  Just ROTFL for the rest of the
morning.

Had to share that.

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