Worst Ooops you've recieved 5

[thekl0wn]

I just received an email to inform me that I misspelled maintenance on the title bar of a window. I spelled it maintinance. I know, idiotic and unprofessional on my part, but the reply was classic! And now, the quote from the email I received on the matter: "...maintenance was misspelled in the blue bar thing, and needs to be spelled correctly. You spelled it pfonetically."

Ooops... What was that? I can't understand you with your foot in there! I restrained myself from simply replying: PWNED!

 

[rjoubert]

I've heard a couple of good ones I heard about while I was in the Army...and no, neither of these actually happened to me...

1. Back when Army basic training was stressful, some people would try to pull stunts to make it look like they were trying to commit suicide, just to get released on a "mental" discharge. I had heard about someone who tied a buffer cord around his neck and jumped out of the 3rd story window of the barracks. Well, it turns out the cord was long enough to reach the ground, and he ended up breaking his leg.

2. A guy's roommate returned from a heavy night of drinking. He stumbled over to his roommate's bed, thinking he was standing at the toilet, and proceeded to relieve himself all over his roommate, who quickly woke up and started yelling at the drunk.

 

[rjoubert]

Whoops...sorry about that first sentence...it's early and I haven't had my coffee yet.

 

[flapeyre]

Just saw this one on RegretTheError.com:

Attack of the spellchecker

Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas.

 

[gbaughma]

Speaking of spell checkers...

We had this one executive from Pennsylvania, who would always end his sentences with "..okay?", making every sentence a question when he talked.

Well, you know how Microsoft Word has this "automatic correct" feature...

... and you know how that can be customized (evil grin)...

I changed his computer so that every time he hit a period at the end of the sentence, it would replace it with ", okay?"

Of course, he had to look at the keyboard while typing... so he got about halfway through a report when he looked up at the screen and every sentence was ended with ", okay?"



Shame on me. Normally I don't play computer pranks (I try to avoid the 'practical joke' circuit entirely, but computer pranks I always have to fix)... but I couldn't pass that one up.



Just my 2¢
-ARRGH! All my clothes are wrinkled! Oh, the irony!

--Greg

http://parallel.tzo.com

 

[kjv1611]

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gbaugma, that's HILARIOUS!

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[philhege]

Greg wins.

 

[Gooser]

Wow, we had a major that could've stood to have her comma's replaced with ", again,". I swear, every time that woman paused she filled it with a needless "again". It bothered me so much that I had to count them to keep from busting out laughing at her.

--Gooser

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[philhege]

We need a script that injects all of the business buzz phrases along with punctuation, like

"At the end of the day,"
", if we leverage the synergies."
"That being said,"
", according to the troops on the ground."

Etc.

 

[Gooser]

In order to improve our ROI, "

", we'll do this by implementing a 'portalized' web interface.

 

[IknowMe]

At 16 I worked stocking the dairy section for a local grocery store. An elderly meat cutter and I had a long standing run of pranks against each other to keep things fun.

Some of the better ones I remember were him placing palets against the door of the coller while I was inside resulting in me having to climb out through the stocked shelves of milk onto the sales floor to exit the cooler.

One time I cut a small peice of milk carton to obstruct his cleaning hose, which cost him about 20 minutes of unpaid overtime to figure out why his hose wouldn't work.

Now for the best, we had a series of black phones placed in each department to allow communications between areas of the store. I took a black inkpad from one of the checkout registers and coated the earpiece of his phone, as luck would have it the district manager over the chains meat departments was visiting that day. The funniest part of the whole deal was my friend explaining to me how hard it was to keep a straight face while telling the manager he had "something" on his ear to avoid being suspect.



Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[Gooser]

I just got this one the other day:

...We have a few things to celebrate. [name deleted] received his Microsoft Certification as a Systems Administrator on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. This took a lot of studding and the completion of a very difficult exam....

I quickly fired off an email asking just what sort of exam this was.

--Gooser

 

[thekl0wn]

Sign me up for that test!

 

[kjv1611]

Oh man. Gooser, has anyone pointed this out to the sender of that email (that you are aware of)? That's got to be RATHER embarrassing! [ROFL2]

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me