#33047
06/21/2001 2:17 PM
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We all know some good Freudian slips, but how about Fruedian typos. This came ot mind as I almost sent an email to a colleague that mentioned some networking activities at a local university. Fortunately, I corrected it from "notworking."
I pulled this experience from a "Freudian typo" google search: a Sociology 101 student who had done a paper on local religious leaders' beliefs about abortion and contraception. Describing her interview with a Baptist pastor, she wrote, "As regarding misconception, he said that his wife and him use it."
Other examples that crap up in your typing?
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#33048
06/21/2001 2:58 PM
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old hand
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old hand
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I have too much trouble with public/pubic. I don't know what that says about me! I just know if I type the word "public" I double-check it to make sure that it's right! 
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#33049
06/21/2001 3:10 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Bean, you have reminded me of a wonderful old silent film from the ?early 60s, designed I think as a training film for the UK construction industry and using all the leading comedy actors of the time. Called something like A Home of Your Own, it featured every conceivable cockup ever perpetrated on site, including the ongoing joke of a stonemason meticulously carving the foundation stone. When the civic dignitary pulls aside the curtain on completion, it sure enough proudly reads: This building was raised by pubic subscription. 
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#33050
06/23/2001 1:54 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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<<"As regarding misconception, he said that his wife and him use it.">>
But never pubicly.
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#33051
06/23/2001 2:45 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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"As regarding misconception, he said that his wife and him use it."
"Him" meaning the wife's lover?
"examples that crap up in your typing?" Another illustration of your problem?
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#33052
06/23/2001 3:54 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Sometimes, writing up a loooong meeting, I tended to render Board of Selectmen as Bored of Selectmen. Fortunately my Editor was quick!
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#33053
06/24/2001 12:08 AM
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"examples that crap..."
Yes, albeit a very intentional one (with questionable effects).
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