Terminalcoffee discussion

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/0...

Oops! Lucky we never make typos.

That's a zinger.

Oh my.

we had an evangelist come to our church when i was a kid who was preaching about Sampson and Delilah and he got to a point where he was talking about Delilah seducing Sampson and he meant to say "Sampson lay his head upon Delilah's couch" meaning he reclined and got comfortable. instead he said:

"So then Sampson laid his head upon Delilah's crotch...crotch...uhmmmm COUCH, COUCH...HE LAID HIS HEAD ON HER COUCH!!"

needless to say, my buddies and i were beyond hysterical while mom's fanned themselves red-faced and dad's coughed and tried to suppress grinning

I guess the typo was made in part because the person counted on spellcheck. I've been there.

It would be funny if someone did it on purpose just for the laughs.
Don't underestimate the will of the prankster.
I would probably do something like that.

BYU has no sense of humor.

Don't be dissing BYU!!!!!!!!!!!

That's why you should still proofread after you've spellchecked.

Breana wrote: "Don't be dissing BYU!!!!!!!!!!!"

Will I be struck by lightning?

I'm guessing Breana goes to BYU, or wants to go there, or knows someone who goes there, or is Mormon. Or all of the above.

Also, based on the !!!!!!!!!!!!!! and private profile, I'm guessing Breana is a teen?

Yeah. I meant no offense, Breana. Sincerely.

But if you're going to play around in the world of adults (I think that's what we are) you have to know that not everyone believes what you might believe.

There IS a clear difference in implication and meaning between the two words: apostle and apostate. That's a pretty big spelling error to miss. Spellcheck sucks.

In the same vein, I'm surprised the minister who kept using the wrong name during a funeral service didn't get a reprimand. He kept calling the dead man who was being honored in the service by his grieving widow's name throughout the whoooooole memorial service... while she was sitting on the front row, surrounded by her kids, grandkids, and greatgrandkids... and other family members and friends. I was there. I saw the whole thing go down. It would've been funny if it wasn't so darned awkward.

A prostrate prostate? I don't know. I'm prone to error, though.

Larry wrote: "Breana wrote: "Don't be dissing BYU!!!!!!!!!!!"

Will I be struck by lightning?

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Stop making me laugh, Larry, when I've got my mouth full...

But, Bun, supine can be so divine.

On the floor, can't find the door.

Snuffling the rug.

Dusted.

Flat-on-my-back.

Prone.

Reeeelaxed.

tingly.

Spent.

spam!

Lovely Spam!

Low mortgage rates! Work from home! Enlarge your penis! New cruise book published!

The thing I find funniest about the typo in the article, is that there is an entire cultural history behind the word apostate that has been adopted and is unique to the Mormons. It is one that you hear your entire growing-up-hood in the LDS church, and it often refers to other bodies of religious persons who do not possess the whole Truth (glowing gigantic capital T) that they believe they, in fact, do.

My education included the frequent reference to the Catholics as the "Great Apostate Church" which had the true Priesthood taken from them when the original apostles died (after writing the Bible first, of course). This holy Priesthood from God was restored to Jo Smith in the late 1800's, hence making him the great, true Prophet and creating the "One True" Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Days.

In all of this, I find it hilarious that apostate is probably the one word that you could call the LDS Apostles that would cause the most incense and offense, because it is their own terminology used against themselves. (Think of the muslims using the word 'infidels' - almost the same connotation)

I love it when karma comes right back at you, using your own foot to kick your ass.

Sarah, "new cruise book published" lollers. Love you.

Back in the olden days when the Internet was just this cool text and UNIX thing we college folk used, We had this really cool thing called "fleeping" where we could send an instant message to someone else online! Imagine that! It was very cool but rather annoying because it would immediately type the line of text you typed in on top of the work the person at the other end was doing. They'd have to refresh their screen to get back to work or completely exit their program to reply. We younger students used it all the time, of course.

I had a really uptight coworker (i worked at the University, too) who was on the next floor up. One day I fleeped her and asked her if she had a sec. After hitting send I noticed that I had actually typed, "Do you have a sex?" I ran upstairs in a panic and luckily she wasn't there and I was able to refresh the screen with her none the wiser. But to this day, I blush with embarrassment thinking of what her horrified reaction would have been...

Bwahahaaha! That is too funny Kelly. If she wasn't so uptight & perhaps a closer friend, I would have left the message for all to see. (But, I like being evil that way sometimes)

That was called fleeping??

I used to do that with my dad, haha! During our "lunch break" while he was at work, and while I was at home in the summers. I remember I thought it was COOLEST thing ever! But then they came out with AIM.

Oh, AOHell. I am so glad the days of fearing your internet supremacy are so long dead.


EDIT: Nvm, I think what I had was a little different. We'd sign onto the same server via Telnet (or any command-line terminal on a UNIX... am I using the right terms? Man, it's been ages). There was a program (I think it was just called chat) which enabled you to type stuff to people in realtime, except that there was no "send." What you'd type would come out as you typed it into a screen divided into half.

And that is partly the story of how I was about a million times more computer literate when I was seven than I am now. My UNIX/Linux-loving dad says Windows ruined me. He's probably right. Sorry, Dad. ^^;

Nowadays I probably would have left it anyway, too. But I was 20, way too insecure. :)

That's what we called it. Not sure if that was a UW thing or a universal name.

YEAH to the death of AOL supremacy!

Here, here! And down with that scuuuuuurvy Prince John!
(I also hated AOL. They charged me for six months after I cancelled with them. :P)

I bet there's a landfill's worth of AOL CDs in garbage dumps around the country.

Wow. I remember those AOL CDs. They'd show up about once a week. They've got to be somewhere, eh?

i use them for coasters

A group of friends made a float for the Seattle Gay Pride Parade out of them. Considering how conservative AOL was I thought it was hilarious.

What's amazing to me is that for quite a while, many people though AOL was the only way to get to the Internet/WWW. They had a bunch of folks duped that way.

"Would you agree that times have changed?" -- Bright Eyes, Four Winds

Larry, backing up his Omaha rock stars:)

::stands back proudly::

Do you see Bright Eyes, like, at the supermarket, Larry? Does he still live in Omaha?

I've never seen him -- but yes, he lives here. They played at an Obama rally last year that I missed (dang it). Saddle Creek Records (his main label) is about three blocks from where I live.

AOL's conservative? Surely this was before being owned by Ted Turner?

Ted Turner owns AOL?

AOL/Time/Warner, right? All Ted Turner companies.

Keep in mind that I am so left of center that Clinton seemed conservative to me at first. But yes, I believe this was before being bought by Time Warner.

I don't think Turner is actively involved in any of these brands anymore. I think I recall he voted against the foolish Time Warner/AOL merger, but was overruled.

Larry, I didn't know that.

Kelly, you're funny.