Re: Unisys (was Re: Where did GODBOUT Electronics go ?)

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From: Steve OHara-Smith
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:14

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On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:19:49 GMT
sim...@evitech.fi (Simo Tuominen) wrote:

> On 01 Jun 00 08:31:25 -0800, "Charlie Gibbs" <cgi...@sky.bus.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <8h5aj6$ktk$1...@nina.pacific.net.au> ri...@zip.com.au (river)
> >writes:
> 
> >>It was rumoured, that if you ran "Unisys" through Wordstar (or maybe
> >>another old wp) spellcheck it would come up with "anuses". Maybe it's
> >>an urban myth, but the first time I heard it I almost split!
> >
> >It's not an urban myth.  I might have even posted the original
> >message myself.  We had it happen using WordPerfect.
> 
> Then there's Word 95. In English text, write "zzzz", use the spell
> checker, and the silly thing offers "sex" as the correct spelling.
> BTW, it also offers "anuses" as an alternative spelling for "Unisys".

	This has to be one of the shortest time to thread revival I have
yet seen round here :)

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From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <ste...@eircom.net>
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Subject: Re: Unisys (was Re: Where did GODBOUT Electronics go ?)
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