Comment On Autocorrect is Grate

incontinence?

^_^

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)

That's so funny I'm going to pee and poop my pants.


really.

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?)

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...

It might not have been auto-correct. Maybe they *really* misspelled "inconvenience" and didn't pay attention when spell check replaced it.

This is so funny I could just, well, shit.

I had incontinence the whole time I was dealing with Sprint. Finally got them out of my system. :D

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

The real WTF is the massive horizontal scrolling.

Alon:

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?)

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

Anomalous Blowhard:

The real WTF is the massive horizontal scrolling.

Uh, what massive horizontal scrolling?

Soo... it was Enterprise-wide incontenance.

We're gonna need a bigger pooper-scooper.

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?"

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.

We are here for your incontinence.

Sincerely,
Depends.com

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.

Was the customer who received this pissed off?

Alon:

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?)

Maybe the user was constipated?

Yeap I've done this before.

CAPTCHA: tesla

I hate when I the DB shytes all over the place...

I was going to write something clever about incontinence, then I saw my captcha... "dubya" - yikes! Now that's worse than failure.

Wow.. Just WOW, I just hope that this wasn't a massive letter to the corporate costumers.

Captcha: cognac.... Yes, it makes me pee!

Rafael Larios:

Wow.. Just WOW, I just hope that this wasn't a massive letter to the corporate costumers.

Captcha: cognac.... Yes, it makes me pee!

costumers?

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".

I almost had incontinence myself when I read that.

Michael:

Anomalous Blowhard:

The real WTF is the massive horizontal scrolling.

Uh, what massive horizontal scrolling?

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....

Jeff T:

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)

I don't know about you guys, but I'm packed full of definition 1.

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there!! :)

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 ..."

Michael:

Anomalous Blowhard:

The real WTF is the massive horizontal scrolling.

Uh, what massive horizontal scrolling?

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.

Michael:

Anomalous Blowhard:

The real WTF is the massive horizontal scrolling.

Uh, what massive horizontal scrolling?

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.

Michael:

Anomalous Blowhard:

The real WTF is the massive horizontal scrolling.

Uh, what massive horizontal scrolling?

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.

Ok, the real WTF is the forum software in its entirety. Mods, please delete two of my three identical posts above.

CAPTCHA: burned

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

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."

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.

Anonymous:

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

Crossword clue: Female.
Grid answer: _ U N T

Missing letter?

Reminds me of some dinner invitations which went out for a company I used to work for.

"Please note african\american tie required."

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?

JohnB:

Anonymous:

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

Crossword clue: Female.
Grid answer: _ U N T

Missing letter?

Hunt - for females, apparently

Captcha: tastey -- yep, most are ;)

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.

JohnB:

Anonymous:

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

Crossword clue: Female.
Grid answer: _ U N T

Missing letter?

Aunt

I laughed so hard I peed my pants!!!!

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**.

That's not me, I'm the other guy:

"... and could even access the AS/400 from pubic phone boxes ..."

I'll go you one better. In a recent round of interviews we received one resume which boasted in part of "over two years' experience in pubic relations."

He wasn't all that young, either.

Circular Reference Mitch:

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**.

ROFLMFAO; Best one I've seen.

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. ;)