"The Danger Of Typos"
A businessman from Wisconsin went on a business
trip to Louisiana. Upon arrival, he immediately plugged
his laptop into the hotel room port and sent a short E-mail
back home to his wife, Jennifer Johnson, at her address,
JennJohn@world.net.
Unfortunately, in his haste, he mistyped a letter and the
E-mail ended up going to JeanJohn@world.net, a Jean
Johnson in Duluth, the wife of a preacher who had just
passed away and was buried that day. The preacher's
wife took one look at the E-mail and promptly fainted.
It read, "Arrived safely, but it sure is hot down here!"
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"Newspaper Ad"
The following is a real ad from a newspaper which
appeared four days in a row - the last three hopelessly
trying to correct the first day's mistake.
MONDAY: For sale: R.D. Jones has one sewing
machine for sale. Phone 948-0707 after 7 P.M. and
ask for Mrs. Kelly who lives with him cheap.
TUESDAY: We regret having erred In R.D. Jones' ad
yesterday. It should have read "One sewing machine
for sale cheap. Phone 948-0707 and ask for Mrs. Kelly,
who lives with him after 7 P.M."
WEDNESDAY: R.D. Jones has informed us that he has
received several annoying telephone calls because of
the error we made in the classified ad yesterday. The
ad stands correct as follows: "For sale R.D. Jones has
one sewing machine for sale. Cheap. Phone 948-0707
after 7 P.M. and ask for Mrs. Kelly who loves with him."
THURSDAY : I, R.D. Jones, have no sewing machine for
sale. I smashed it. Don't call 948-0707 as I have had the
phone disconnected. I have not been carrying on with
Mrs. Kelly. Until yesterday she was my housekeeper
but she quit!
Received on Fri Jul 23 08:22:11 2004
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