Spellchecker Mistakes

**isucyfan** · 06-03-2008, 08:27 AM

A spellchecker apparently changed some students' names to what it thought was appropriate in the high school yearbook.

Spell-check runs amok in Pa. yearbook - Weird news - MSNBC.com

I wonder how Kathy Airbag feels!

**Wesley** · 06-03-2008, 08:33 AM

They should sue the pants off the school - that is the American way.

**Cyclone62** · 06-03-2008, 08:45 AM

I saw this the other day, and let me tell you, I would be irate if I was the worker that had to put all of those little stickers in the year books to "fix" the damage. Talk about a pain in the butt.

**isuarch80** · 06-03-2008, 08:50 AM

I'm guessing the company isn't even going to put the stickers on - it sounds like everyone that got a year book will get a set of stickers for the corrections! So you have to put it on yourself... how ***** is that! And I bet they just use normal labels instead of something that matches the high gloss pages of a yearbook. It's the printing company's fault... make them reprint the books for any that want them!

**Cyclone62** · 06-03-2008, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by isuarch80

I'm guessing the company isn't even going to put the stickers on - it sounds like everyone that got a year book will get a set of stickers for the corrections! So you have to put it on yourself... how ***** is that! And I bet they just use normal labels instead of something that matches the high gloss pages of a yearbook. It's the printing company's fault... make them reprint the books for any that want them!

If that's what they do, that's a bad idea. In my experience though, the company puts them on there though. Usually it gets caught before they go out to the customers though.

**AIT** · 06-03-2008, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by isucyfan

I wonder how Kathy Airbag feels!

I don't know how Kathy feels, but I'd be pretty stoked if my name were Max Supernova.

**isucyfan** · 06-03-2008, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by AIT

I don't know how Kathy feels, but I'd be pretty stoked if my name were Max Supernova.

That's what I thought.

It has a sort of X-Man feel to it.

**AIT** · 06-03-2008, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by isucyfan

That's what I thought.

It has a sort of X-Man feel to it.

It's almost as cool as this name:

EDIT: Removed the hotlink.

**jbhtexas** · 06-03-2008, 09:22 AM

Yearbook companies gone wild!!!

There was a deal about a month ago down here where somebody at the yearbook company went in and altered the student individual pictures...changed backgrounds, put different heads on different bodies, changed hair colors, etc. It was quite a mess. Apparently some employee at the yearbook comapny thought she was doing the students a favor. The yearbooks were reprinted with the unaltered pictures.