The Sheila Variations

Okay, THAT'S funny. We had a girl in the clerk's office call a Motion in Limine -- which is a sort of pre-trial motion -- a Motion in LemonLime.

Which, of course, is what we call them now ALL THE TIME.

Another funny thing, Microsoft Word doesn't recognize the word "recuse" -- it keeps wanting to put in "reuse." Isn't recuse a common enough word to be in their dictionary?

I think the comment monster ate my comment.

I remember when Word Perfect came out with its automatic correction feature that you could not turn off - I just about went postal over the fact that it would not allow me to type "pH". It was damned if it would not change it to Ph every single time and I couldn't change it back. I would fix it, and it would unfix itself immediately. I tried every trick in the book, asked all the secretaries, and finally gave up even though it made me look like an idiot. Is "pH" really so obscure that no one in Word Perfect Land could ever have heard of it?

My last name would be spell-checked to Cheerlessly, which I found horribly unfunny. I mean, Charismatic, okay, Character, I can live with that, but Cheerlessly?

hahahaha. The article made me laugh, too. Printed out a copy of it and posted it on my office door with the heading "The Dangers of Failing to Proofread" (I even found a sticker of an embarrassed-looking SpongeBob to put on there - you know, the "sea sponge" thing).

Actually, that's a good instructive object lesson.

I've received ecology papers from students talking about "perdition" that happens when wolves eat rabbits.

And the pH thing happens in Word sometimes, too, drives me nuts. (Also, try typing in two-letter codes indicating genotypes: if you TRY to type 'aa' at the beginning of a line, Word INSISTS it MUST be "Aa" and changes it, until you go back and change it manually....)