Fun with e-mail

[draftermatt]

Ever get something via e-mail that because of misspelling, or etc. just made you laugh out loud?

As a premise to this e-mail, A masonry or block wall is normally called a CMU wall by those of us in construction. CMU stands for Concrete Masonry Unit.

This e-mail comes a very nice architect, who has some trouble with the English language.

All CUM @ the stairs should be align w/ the inside of wall.
GC should note, the thickness of hardwall system will be changed depend on cum thickness.

Which caused my boss and I to laugh upon reading.

Anyone have anything similar?

[Lachrymose]

I'm pretty sure I posted this before, but at a university where I used to work, someone sent out a mass email about "Breast Awareness Month" instead of "Breast Cancer Awareness Month."

[Dips]

From two years ago:

http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ead.php?t=2461

[Catwoman2965]

Oh that's funny...i don't have any to share, but in my job, the word "public" is used often, and I can't tell you how many times I've had to correct my typing because I've left the "L" in it out....

[PentUpRage]

Working as a mortgage loan officer for a rather large bank we would get the rate changes through out the day that would cause us to either be really excited or want to hurl. These emails went out to EVERYONE, Michigan to Florida ok?

On this particular day, the rates went up and we were in a bit of a panic about it but what made me lose it was the signature of the sender. Obviously he trusted MS word a bit too much because instead of sorry for any inconvenience... he had, sorry for any incontinence...

I really...really wanted to reply with...while your rate increases normally make me want to pee myself, today I was able to maintain control.

[fireheart]

I've got one not e-mail related, but still funny. It came off of another website (notalwaysright.com). Copied as follows (note, "Me" is not actually moi, it's the "me" from the story):

Me: “Lawn and Garden, this is Karen.”

(The customer, a very nice lady, explains that she needs a part number for a belt on her riding lawn mower, but she can’t find the manual and doesn’t know the model number of the mower. I have her describe the mower for me so I can narrow it down.)

Customer: “Well, it’s last year’s Cub Cadet model with the 48 inch dick.”

Me: “…”

Customer: “I mean DECK!!”

(It took me a good minute or two to stop laughing.)

[draftermatt]

I thought of one for myself.

Another job I'm working on has "Wagner" in the title.

The number of times I've typed "Wanger" and had to go back and fix it is staggering.

Wonder what that says about me...

[wolfie]

Slightly off-topic, but around 15 years ago I was writing a letter to my mother about my new car, using PC-Write (DOS based shareware word processor). Its spellchecker delivered its opinion in the form "Replace suspected misspelling with suggested spelling?". When I ran the spellchecker over my letter before printing it out, it came up with "Replace Hyundai with Honda?" Apparently the spellchecker dictionary was enhanced for later versions, because when I upgraded it stopped offering automotive advice. Too bad I didn't get around to sending a screen dump to PC Magazine's "Abort, Retry, Fail?" column.