Typo of the Week

[yendi]

One of the product-specific mailing lists is currently having a long back-and-forth discussion over the Java pop-up warning messages that appear if a browser isn't one of the app's "approved" browser types. The person who initiated the thread is really frustrated, and meant to send a message with the subject Furious With Java.

Instead, however, they sent a message reading, Furies With Java.

And there's a new message in the thread every couple of hours.

So now I'm regularly picturing Alecto, Megaera , and Tisiphone at Starbucks.

(And yes, it could have been worse; the original sender could have doubled the "r")

Comments

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

Do you have any idea how pissed-off the looks on the faces of Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone (at a Starbucks) were at having little cat-ear headbands and tails added to them in my mental image?

Stop it!

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

Well, I supposed my intial misreading of Furies with Jawa isn't much better. Sounds like the name of a painting featuring the three loverly ladies and a little guy in a brown hoodie.

[aki-dreaming.livejournal.com]

Someone really needs to draw that picture.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

I bet they savaged the barrista for not giving them the double shots they ordered.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

...there's a story in that.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

...there's a story in that.

This...is kind of perfect.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Are two divisions of the same corporation "brothers"?

[sparkfrost.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I can just picture them scourging the poor baristas

"I wanted half-caf! No Elysian fields for you!"

[luis-mw.livejournal.com]

Ow! Please stop!

Furies I can cope with. The image invoked by the double-r is not something I want inside my head...

stop it, stop it....