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Top Auto-Correct Fails of 2011

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If you are using some sort of mobile device to communicate, you have probably experienced some sort of auto-correct failure. This is where you meant to say one thing but your phone/tablet/whatever automatically decided that you really meant to say something else, often to hilarious results.
Damn You Auto Correct is a very funny blog which features, you guess it, a collection of outrageous auto-corrected text messages submitted by readers. At the end of last year, it unveiled its top nine laugh-out-loud entries of the year, based on Facebook shares, tweets, comments and page views. For your reading pleasure, please see the list below. Enjoy!

  1. Intended word: “Monday,” not “Man boobs.”


     
  2. Intended word: “Clinic,” not “closet.”


     
  3. Intended word: “Mortgage payment,” not “MOTTSAPPLESAUCE.”


     
  4. Intended word: “Kissed,” not “killed.


     
  5. Intended word: “China,” not “vagina.”


     
  6. Intended word: “Dimples,” not “nipples.”


     
  7. Intended word: “Shirt,” not “shit.”


     
  8. Intended word: “Persian,” not “period.”


     
  9. Intended word: “Mistletoe,” not “cameltoe.”


     
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Epic Fail

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“Epic Fail” is a term which is being used more and more these days. It can mean a number of different things but they are all sort of the same. For instance, it can symbolize the highest form of fail known to man or it can be used when something can be seen to be a total failure, like this dance routine below:

The site Failblog charts all of the fails out there and some of them are truly epic in scale. If you have any sense of schadenfreude in you, you’ll get a kick out of more than a few posts on this site.
For instance, you might get a kick out of the guy below who thought it would be a good idea to climb inside a balloon. Nothing says “Epic Fail!” more than that!

Via Chris and others

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Fool

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This past Tuesday, I carried out an elaborate April’s Fool Joke while at my client’s office for a meeting. I was told via a text message from a co-worker that Client A wrote him to say that it was Client B’s birthday. Since it was April’s Fool Day, either it was or it wasn’t, but me being me I decided to err on the side of caution because if I was wrong, it was April Fools Day and it would be hysterical – I mean, I was with them both all day long.
So, I stole away from the work session and somehow managed to buy 6 donuts, a birthday card and trick candles from stores located in their office complex. I then walked back into their executive board room singing, candle aflame. The prodigious smoke from the trick candle almost set off their smoke alarm which would have made the entire joke even more priceless. At the end of the song, I looked at the client who I thought had set the whole shebang up. She blankly looked at me as if I was mad yet funnily charming.
I thought I was helping one client punk another. Turns out my own co-workers had me punk myself. I felt like Jeff Bridges in his car at the end of Arlington Road. If you haven’t seen the movie, see it. I found the story compelling.
Upon arriving back at the office, I received a hero’s welcome of sorts, for everyone was quite pleased with the way they had set me up. Their used my own good nature against me for I cannot help being who I am and they knew it. They also knew I could laugh about it, which I did and which I am – case in point, I’m sharing the story with you here.
Other good April’s Fool’s Day jokes this year were Google Custom Time and YouTube’s redirect all links from its front page to a video of Rick Astley’s 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up.

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Working on the Night Moves…

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I was chatting with a friend tonight and somehow the video below came up. When he mentioned that he hadn’t seen/heard about it, I knew I needed to post it to my blog. So, without further ado, enjoy the worst robbery ever!