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In my job I occasionally have to respond to call center forms documenting mis-shipments, missing parts, overages, etc. So, often I end up doing some kind of investigation. One of the forms I got last night stated that somebody would need to "inertigate" the issue.

I'm thinking if I procrastinate enough I will have reached the inert state desired.

Do you have anything similar? Instead of correcting the hoi polloi, let's celebrate the uniqueness.

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Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on October 23, 2009 at 11:32am

Pubic/Public is one of my favorite typos.

Permalink Reply by Jaume on October 23, 2009 at 2:02am

I've seen a funny one just yesterday here on A|N: "evolution is widely excepted". More a slip than a typo, but it made me smile.

Permalink Reply by Stephen Moore on October 23, 2009 at 2:28am

Hopefully it's just a slip. Sadly, the misspelling of "accept" as "except" is not that uncommon.

Permalink Reply by Marc Draco on October 23, 2009 at 10:06am

There's a word for this kind of slip... I saw it somewhere - malaproprism perhaps? I thought it was here (http://www.rinkworks.com/words/) but looks like I erred again. Steve Delaney is the master of these have a larf here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yfZt2cP6mg

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on October 23, 2009 at 9:46am

Too funny. This is off topic, but here is my favorite beach sign.

Permalink Reply by Jared Lardo on October 31, 2009 at 10:46pm

You should post that in the Completely Irrelevant Images Thread. I'd do it myself, but I'd somehow feel like I'd be stealing.

Permalink Reply by Jaume on October 23, 2009 at 10:15am

In the same vein, a French minister (Roselyne Bachelot) allegedly declared: "Je suis pour l'égalité des sexes et je prendrai des mesures." ("I'm for sex equality, and I'll take measures" - which can also be understood as "I'll measure them myself").

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on October 23, 2009 at 10:17am

That's another job I might not mind so much.

Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on October 23, 2009 at 11:24am

I want a job where I can inertigate issues. It's easy to take a position on being inert.

Permalink Reply by Stephen Moore on October 23, 2009 at 5:36pm

I think the Government has an Office of Inertigation squirreled away somewhere in its bureaucracy.

Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on October 23, 2009 at 7:57pm

That's the gubbiment job for me!

Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on October 23, 2009 at 11:32am

Once when I was proofreading my mother's resume, I found that she had typed "I have sex years experience". We laughed about that for years.