Emily’s NEW positivity and being nice to each other thread

[EmilyMiller]

Sounds like the dozen and a half stories I haven't made any progress on in weeks

I intentionally stepped back from writing for a while. Wanted to recharge. The stuff in progress is mostly for other people or shorts stories. But even that seems beyond me.

Em

 

[onehitwanda]

Sorry for the subject change but... is there anything better than smashed avocado on rye toast with a fried egg? No? Didn't think so.

slow, sensual, slipper sex with a sex-starved strumpet on the sybillesque side of the spectrum?

edit: slippery. slipper sex sounds way too fetish for me.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

slow, sensual, slipper sex with a sex-starved strumpet on the sybillesque side of the spectrum?

edit: slippery. slipper sex sounds way too fetish for me.

Aah, alliteration... Alluring amourettes with attractive admirers, anti-sesquipedantics need not apply

 

[samhasstories]

slow, sensual, slipper sex with a sex-starved strumpet on the sybillesque side of the spectrum?

edit: slippery. slipper sex sounds way too fetish for me.

Also, amorous alliteration.

edit: too little too late, @ShelbyDawn57 did it way better.

 

[EmilyMiller]

slow, sensual, slipper sex with a sex-starved strumpet on the sybillesque side of the spectrum?

edit: slippery. slipper sex sounds way too fetish for me.

I want to try slipper sex…
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dgzS1CuR3os/VyCVMArtezI/AAAAAAAAKYU/cy-NP91X9qAFmTP656iNERTZhMfwdOlaACLcB/s400/81280476_o.jpg

 

[onehitwanda]

I want to try slipper sex…
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dgzS1CuR3os/VyCVMArtezI/AAAAAAAAKYU/cy-NP91X9qAFmTP656iNERTZhMfwdOlaACLcB/s400/81280476_o.jpg

"Oh Tish, that's French."

edit: Also, that redhead in the background is totally going to go home and relive this moment multiple times.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Also, amorous alliteration.

edit: too little too late, @ShelbyDawn57 did it way better.

Thanks @onehitwanda inspired me, or was it instigation? Seems like she does both of those a alot around here.

 

[EmilyMiller]

"Oh Tish, that's French."

Mais oui, maîtresse.

Emileé

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Mais oui, maîtresse.

Emileé

Quick detour to Google Translate...

 

[Zootonius]

Dyslexics of the world untie!

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Dyslexics of the world untie!

Do dysgraphics count?

 

[lavendersilk]

 

[samhasstories]

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There was an old SNL bit that changed the line to "Your mother sews socks that smell," which pops into my head every now and then and makes me chuckle.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Yeah, that's sort of like my world.

 

[MrPixel]

Dyslexics of the world untie!

Don't laugh! 40 years ago I was working for a publishing company, and one of our clients was a company bidding on a Space Shuttle project, "United Space Boosters". I had to write a program to filter the document specifically for "Untied Space Boosters" it occurred so often.

Spell checkers are wonderful things... sometimes.

 

[MillieDynamite]

My dad tells me about working as the lead in the typesetting section of the composing department for a large printing company. They had a company they did printing for, Colrad of Colorado. Dad was on a sick day, and they were doing letterheads and envelopes for the company with a new typeface and logo. Rather than digging out the old paper tape files and just changing the typeface (Which actually you could do without even changing the coding), some genious reset everything and made new photographic prints of the letterhead and envelopes. They were 13,000 envelopes and letterheads in a 20 thousand run of each when someone, not a proofreader, the typesetter, or foreman of composing, discovered "Colorado of Colorado."

No heads rolled, but the foreman blamed it on pops, and his boss said, "This can't be the fault of the one person who didn't look at the copy before it went to print."

 

[Zootonius]

Don't laugh! 40 years ago I was working for a publishing company, and one of our clients was a company bidding on a Space Shuttle project, "United Space Boosters". I had to write a program to filter the document specifically for "Untied Space Boosters" it occurred so often.

Spell checkers are wonderful things... sometimes.

Years ago, I knew a young immigrant who was learning English. Someone gave him an old Mac with MS word on it so he could practice writing. He proudly showed me a story, titled:

What I did on my summer vocation.

I pointed out a little problem and he replied that it passed spellcheck!

 

[lavendersilk]

Years ago, I knew a young immigrant who was learning English. Someone gave him an old Mac with MS word on it so he could practice writing. He proudly showed me a story, titled:

What I did on my summer vocation.

I pointed out a little problem and he replied that it passed spellcheck!

It could have been about a very interesting job application?

 

[StillStunned]

In my first job, editing for an accounting firm, I checked a letter for one of the partners about a new service they were offering. I checked it, and sent it to the secretary to be typed up. A week later I get called into the partner's office for a bollocking. A potential client had highlighted a mistake in the letter: "highest standards of quality" was misspelled "highest standards of qualtiy".

To this day I don't know whether it was a mistake I overlooked, or whether the secretary had typed up my corrections wrong (this was in the days of hardcopy texts and red pens). But it made an impression.

 

[lavendersilk]

In my first job, editing for an accounting firm, I checked a letter for one of the partners about a new service they were offering. I checked it, and sent it to the secretary to be typed up. A week later I get called into the partner's office for a bollocking. A potential client had highlighted a mistake in the letter: "highest standards of quality" was misspelled "highest standards of qualtiy".

To this day I don't know whether it was a mistake I overlooked, or whether the secretary had typed up my corrections wrong (this was in the days of hardcopy texts and red pens). But it made an impression.

I'm sure this was awful for you at the time, but I hope you can kind of laugh at it now. I mean... it is kind of ironic.

 

[StillStunned]

I'm sure this was awful for you at the time, but I hope you can kind of laugh at it now. I mean... it is kind of ironic.

Oh, the irony wasn't lost on me, or the partner either. It was a key phrase during the bollocking.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Big thank you to whoever it is that runs the bomb sweeper. Much appreciated.

 

[Duleigh]

My dad tells me about working as the lead in the typesetting section of the composing department for a large printing company. They had a company they did printing for, Colrad of Colorado. Dad was on a sick day, and they were doing letterheads and envelopes for the company with a new typeface and logo. Rather than digging out the old paper tape files and just changing the typeface (Which actually you could do without even changing the coding), some genious reset everything and made new photographic prints of the letterhead and envelopes. They were 13,000 envelopes and letterheads in a 20 thousand run of each when someone, not a proofreader, the typesetter, or foreman of composing, discovered "Colorado of Colorado."

No heads rolled, but the foreman blamed it on pops, and his boss said, "This can't be the fault of the one person who didn't look at the copy before it went to print."

I still remember enough of my printing days to know what happened here, and unless there's a special request for a whole new typeface or style, you NEVER rebuild the wheel, but when you get a request for a new type faces or new style it's all hands on deck assuring quality, from typesetter to pressman, to cutter and every piece of management involved. Blaming his screw up on the one guy who wasn't in the office? A proper boss would have been chewing that foreman's ass.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Yes, scores, like submarines, are degaussed now and again.

Big thank you to whoever it is that runs the bomb sweeper. Much appreciated.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Actually, the foreman was on vacation, and his assistant, top lead or some other such weird title, was acting foreman. Ultimately, he lost his job, and they offered it to Dad, who said, "Thank you, thank you very much, but no thank you."

In those days, way back in the 1970s, typesetting was a photographic process. The typefaces were small negative images, and light was shot through them through a series of mirrors to print onto positive film on a roll. You just put the typeface you wanted on the position that the coding calls for, and that's all you have to do to change faces. The new logo is pasted onto the processed positive paper, and you're done. They make a new negative; it's put on stripping paper, where they need to be for proper printing, and that paper covering is cut away, and then that is put on a photographic metal printing plate, exposed, and using etching acid, everything is removed by what is to print.

The useless trivia I know but have no use for could fill several volumes. We could call that book Millie's Useless Trivia for Useless Trivia Lovers Volume I of CCC.

I still remember enough of my printing days to know what happened here, and unless there's a special request for a whole new typeface or style, you NEVER rebuild the wheel, but when you get a request for a new type faces or new style it's all hands on deck assuring quality, from typesetter to pressman, to cutter and every piece of management involved. Blaming his screw up on the one guy who wasn't in the office? A proper boss would have been chewing that foreman's ass.