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20th April 2018
Some years ago I read about a company that produced an accounting reported that talked about the company being “in the African-American.” Someone got too aggressive with find and replace.
20th April 2018
Some years ago I read about a company that produced an accounting reported that talked about the company being “in the African-American.” Someone got too aggressive with find and replace.
April 20th, 2018 at 11:42
Tim,
A few years ago, when Kindle books were new-ish, I read an article about a few that had apparently scanned existing ebooks from a different format into Kindle format, and apparently did a find and replace to change Nook into Kindle. This resulted in to several “reading Kindles” (instead of reading nooks) and Kindles and crannies.
Also, reminded me of this, not a find and replace but an OCR error:
Ebook Scanning Error Replaces “Arms” With “Anus”
Well, this is awkward. You’re reading a 19th-century romance novel where the plucky heroine is finally reunited with her lover, so she joyously flings “her anus around his neck.” Wait, what?
https://gizmodo.com/hilarious-ebook-scanning-error-replaces-arms-with-an-1572568975
April 20th, 2018 at 18:22
And her noble hero displays his ‘coat of anus’ prominently, of course.
April 21st, 2018 at 15:08
I read a story years ago, when PCs were still kind of a novelty, about a pastor who was having trouble getting the hang of it. He had put the order of service for funerals on his PC, so he could just insert the names and other relevant info and then print out a bulletin. It happened that he had to do a funeral for a woman named Edna, shortly after having done one for a woman named Mary, so he used find and replace to replace Mary with Edna, and printed out the bulletins for Edna’s funeral. He realized too late, in the middle of the funeral, that the words to the Apostles’ Creed now stated that Jesus had been born of the Virgin Edna.