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[donnaimmaculata]

You know you've been reading too much porn if, when coming across the phrase "invest in Bavaria" in a business text, you read "incest in Bavaria" and it takes your mind several minutes to catch up and signal you that there must be something wrong with it.

I am still waiting for the day when I type "pubic" instead of "public" and don't catch the typo before handing in the text.

Comments

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

My best typo moment was when I handed out something to my students where I had written 'sex' instead of 'sec' (dry) - we laughed a lot after that *giggles*

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I bet you did! *grins*

I wonder whether my editor would say something if he came across a sexually connoted typo. He might merely give me a condescending look next time he sees me.

[knightmusic.livejournal.com]

I am constantly misreading a sign that says "Frontage Road" as "Frottage Road," and while writing cover letters to apply for church music jobs, I kept typing "whorship" instead of "worship." I've caught them all thus far, but my luck can't hold out. I don't think that would impress a church very much, even if I consider myself to be whoring out my talents anyway...

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Frottage Road is hilarious. So is whorship, especially in that context. A Freudian slip if I ever saw one.

THE BIG BAD MONSTER SEX

[madamemim.livejournal.com]

Hmm - no typo so far, but I remember saying Tyrannosaurus Sex once, to the infinite amusement of my listeners - and my infinite mortification, of course.
Does that count?

Re: THE BIG BAD MONSTER SEX

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Heh! That's even better than a typo, as it's live!

Big Bad Monster Sex indeed. *snerk*

I've said something like that...

[the-loupe.livejournal.com]

And perhaps you could call it worse. I'm willing to attribute it to staying up until all hours of the morning reading dirty, dirty slash fics. In the middle of tutoring a friend in Advanced Biochemistry, I said "orgasm" instead of "organism". Their reply: "Who's been teaching you this stuff?!" Needless to say, I was humiliated.

Re: I've said something like that...

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

It happens to the best of us. But if it was a friend it's probably not quite as bad as saying it in front of a class or something. And yeah, it's definitely all that slash. It takes over our brains.

[the-loupe.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it would have been less embarassing if it weren't for the fact that said fics weren't even NC-17 and I was still in highschool at the time. The friend, by the way, was a very straight, semi-homophobic male whom I then had to explain slash to. *shudder*

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

How come you did have to explain slash to him? Your slip might have been caused by other sources, not necessarily pornographic ones, couldn't it?

I know I wouldn't want to have to explain slash to any straight, semi-homophibic male. It's difficult enough to bring the concept across to open-minded men, after all.

[the-loupe.livejournal.com]

I had to explain it becuase my notes, half asleep as I was, were on the back of a fic. It was a bad day. *nods* He took it rather well, other than the screaming and the nausea and the rant about sodomy. ...Although, in retrospect, "I like reading about sodomy!" was probably not what he needed to hear at the time. *g*

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Well, that explains a lot *g* Poor boy. Being confronted with filthy sodomy in the middle of a tutoring session... He probably got scarred for life.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Is it at all surprising that it took me several tries to figure out the difference between 'incest' and 'incest'? That's what I read it as, and only the italics pointed me to where I'd gone wrong. I ended up doing a letter by letter compare to figure out where I'd gone wrong.
*grins*

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I love your typo: the difference between 'incest' and 'incest' It tells me everything I need to know *g*

*feels in good company*

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Oh, it wasn't a typo, love. :) It was to demonstrate exactly how confused I was.

*glomps*

I'm agreeing with you on the good, yet oddly scary company. You rock.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Ah, you got me confused there. But I see what you mean now :-)

Three cheers to good company!