[563] in Humor
Re: Careful with that spelling checker, boss.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Litt)
Mon Nov 21 16:20:03 1994
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 16:16:11 EST
From: Jonathan Litt <littlitt@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 13:49:59 +0001 (EST)
From: Andrew B Jones <ajones@world.std.com>
Subject: Republicans on-line (fwd)
To: silent-tristero@world.std.com
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The following sentence was taken from Richard Cohen's column on the
editorial page of Tuesday's Post:
"GOP national chairman Haley Barbour instantly announced that New York City
was no longer in the running for the Republican National Convention, and,
more ominous, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, the state's leading Republican and
Pataki's Disk Operating System (DOS), said he would not seek revenge on
Giuliani."
The only explanation I can come up with (other than Sen. D'Amato really
being a copy of DOS) is that Cohen typed 'doss' instead of 'boss', and the
spelling checker not only corrected it to DOS, but spelled the acronym out
since it's the first appearance of it in a non-computer-related news story.
Egad...
Bob Bane, Global Science & Technology, Inc.
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