Yes, I love editing not because it is my passion, but it promises lots of laughter treatment! There were times I cursed my senior editor for chucking out my ‘well-thought-out’ words and phrases - I rather preferred calling it a RAPE! But when I was offered the editors’ chair - the tip of the fun berg slowly became visible to me. When working on a tough deadline you can’t say how your creativity works – especially for a writer what he writes depends upon what is going through in his mind. Our team was no exception, with 3 portals to deliver, deadline coming closer and limited resources we had no other way but slam the keyboard nonstop. A creative mind, with no doubt, needs recreation and we took a break from the writing marathon by sharing the small (yet big, yet funny) writing mishaps!
Plucking Coffee Leaves:
The topic is on the spots of tourist interest in Nilgiris and the writer narrates about the “lush greenery, mist clad streets, lazy mornings and tribes plucking coffee leaves” – wait! There is something wrong! The sub-editor pinged me in the local chat and copied this line, me, the absent-minded busy head, quipped ‘what’s wrong?’! The sub known for his pun-packed talk snapped back – “so you too make coffee from coffee leaves?”!
The topic is on the spots of tourist interest in Nilgiris and the writer narrates about the “lush greenery, mist clad streets, lazy mornings and tribes plucking coffee leaves” – wait! There is something wrong! The sub-editor pinged me in the local chat and copied this line, me, the absent-minded busy head, quipped ‘what’s wrong?’! The sub known for his pun-packed talk snapped back – “so you too make coffee from coffee leaves?”!
If you still didn’t find anything wrong with the writers’ line – please do join the club of Absent Minded Busy (AMB) heads! :)
Typo-Crazy
Mind Soothing beauty of Nilavilikku? Eh?!
It goes without saying what the writer meant was Nilavilakku!
Shitting from Vizag to Mumbai!
This is the funniest typo ever! However, made in a chat that too with the CEO of the company! My friend who stands ‘Tall’ in my memories is trying her best to convey her resignation message to the Boss. Her husband works in Vizag and a shift to Mumbai is expected. So she goes on saying – I am not sure how long I will be at that place, I may be SHITTING from Vizag to Mumbai.
PS: Our Boss was the master of typos, hence, didn’t notice anything about this shitting journey!
Good Morning Sir and a wink!!!
This is another Skype typo of my ‘Tall’ friend. Our branch head was way too shy-shy to talk and hardly speaks anything more than 5 words at a stretch. And our good old lady is known for her typos… Lady has some issues with her Document Server and pings the BH to let this issue be known – in an attempt to make a pleasant GM wish she types in a smiley after the ‘Good Morning Sir’, however what appeared in the chat window was a Good Morning Sir followed by a wicked wink! She typed in a semi-colon instead of colon and the smiley turned to a wicked wink! What added to the fun and to her ‘oops-i-did-it-again’ cries was that our BH disappeared from the online list!
Please raise your hand so that I can know who you are!
This is not a typo incident – however an AMB head plays the lead here. It’s the first day of the Spider Man guy – individual introduction to whole office done (however it’s not easy to memorize all the names at the very first day – if you do, you are some man!), network chat option installed, outlook configured, start-up project given and he is all set for the day! Our new branch was a big hall where small partitions, just enough to cover the half of your PC, separate one employee from the other. The Parker Boy gets a ‘Come here’ message in his chat window from Satheesh (Names changed due to survival reasons!). Parker boy wonders and sends back – ‘Could you please raise your hand so that I can know who you are’. The trick did work – and to all our astonishment, we saw our branch manager with a raised hand in his cabin!
This is not a typo incident – however an AMB head plays the lead here. It’s the first day of the Spider Man guy – individual introduction to whole office done (however it’s not easy to memorize all the names at the very first day – if you do, you are some man!), network chat option installed, outlook configured, start-up project given and he is all set for the day! Our new branch was a big hall where small partitions, just enough to cover the half of your PC, separate one employee from the other. The Parker Boy gets a ‘Come here’ message in his chat window from Satheesh (Names changed due to survival reasons!). Parker boy wonders and sends back – ‘Could you please raise your hand so that I can know who you are’. The trick did work – and to all our astonishment, we saw our branch manager with a raised hand in his cabin!
(Parker Boy – please don’t kill me for the added spice!)
There are more to these typo incidents – being an AMB head I misplaced the rest in some memory bag. Will be adding it to the column, whenever I find it back!
