[Sussex] The infamous Angling Hairbrush

[Steve Dobson]

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> From: Geoff Teale 
> Loz said:
> ---------
> > One of the halls at university, Rathbone, comes up in M$Word 
> > spellcheck as 
> > "rat-hole"... Once again I think microsoft is trying to tell 
> > us something... 
> 
> Back when I word for Rentokil Initial Group there was an 
> infamous e-mail
> that went out after being spell-checked without double 
> checking the output.
> It was full of strange phrases as it concerned correct procedures for
> porters dealing with dead bodies in hospitals.  I cannot 
> remember the full
> text now (it ran to several pages of A4 that we pinned to the 
> notice board).
> 
> 
> One sentence was intended to read:
> 
> "If the deceased was known to be a practicing Jew, then it is 
> important that
> job details are emailed to East Grinstead before moving to coldstore."
> 
> .. due to bad typing and a particularly zealous spellchecker 
> the resulting
> sentence (which was sent to the Angel Harbour hospital 
> administration and
> key Initial Portering staff) read like this:
> 
> "If the diseased was known to be a practicle Jew, then it is 
> important that
> genitals are embalmed to the East instead before making coldslaw."
> 
> We in the corporate IT department came across this beauty 
> when the director
> who sent it came down to our office to ask if there was 
> anyway we could call
> the e-mail back.  This e-mail is universally known as the 
> "Angling Hairbrush
> E-Mail" as this is what the name of the hospital "Angel 
> Harbour" came out of
> the spellchecker as.

Those those of you who haven't seen this it is one of the 
funniest things I've ever read on the web:

http://www.nettally.com/palmk/OdeToSpellChecker.html