From:
spirko@yahoo.com (Jeff Spirko)
Subject: True Headline
Today on CNN.com, the following headline appeared:
Tiny rock around Uranus denied moon status
From:
Tim.Dugan@lee.net (Tim Dugan)
Subject: Random Results
Actual symptom for a bug in the Microsoft Knowledge Base
<
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q139/0/48.asp>
"SYMPTOMS Using the RAND() in an SQL UPDATE's WHERE clause can cause random
results to occur."
What's going to happen when the bug is fixed?
From:
hfessler@comcast.net (Henry Fessler)
Subject: How low can they go?
The headline, "Pope denounces grave sex scandal," made me blanch. Then I
realized "grave" was an adjective, not a noun.
From:
eje_usenet@yahoo.com (Eric Ewanco)
Subject: In the "unclear on the concept" department ...
Sign in front of restaurant in Framingham, MA:
Order to go from the Internet
Call for details 555-1234
From:
mkoster@darkeyes.com (forgotten)
Organization: http://groups.google.com/
Subject: Antidote?
My godmother was telling the story of a letter she received from a friend,
requesting a recipe for the "Like Mom Made" cookbook the friend's nonprofit
was going to put out for Mother's Day. At the bottom of the letter was a
summary of what was required for submission:
Send us your mother's favorite recipe, and if possible any antidotes that go
along with it.
I think they meant anecdotes...
From:
stacy@Millions.Ca (Stacy Millions)
Organization: Millions Consulting Limited
Subject: ESL on the net
Seen on a mailing list.
Sorry for the poor English, but it is not my naive language.
From:
mooney21@pacbell.net (Shane Mooney)
Subject: NASA Comet
On the MSNBC website, a sidebar listing other Space-related news inadvertently
mocked the recent shuttle tragedy:
Space News
Space shuttle crashes on reentry
Space.com: NEAT new comet to look for
From:
bbarton@cisco.com (Bob Barton)
Subject: Photo Printer
True Story.
Christmas morning was at my in-law's this year. My sister-in-law (early 30s)
got a nice color printer as a present. The brand will remain nameless, but
the box was plastered with the phrase "Color Photo Printer." My sister-in-law
looks it over for several minutes, reading all sides of the box and finally
asks, "Does it print words too?"
I told her it would print a picture of words.
She said she'd kill me if she saw this on the net...
From:
abe@engelbot.com (Adam Engelhart)
Subject: Now that's a long walk . . .
Sign near a department store escalator in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA:
ELEVATOR LOCATED IN CHINA
I don't normally take my passport with me when I'm shopping; I'll take my
chances with the escalator, thank you very much.
From:
michael@cogency.com (Michael Smith)
Subject: Toilet Paper Gun - original
I saw this on the CNN web-site this morning (Feb 9, 2004):
A prison inmate who escaped by brandishing a fake gun made of toilet
paper, tape and black ink was captured four days later after a
gunfight with police on a busy Omaha street.
No one was injured in the shootout Saturday, police said.
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