When Spell Check Doesn't Work

It's amazing the things you find when you're not looking for it. I was scanning some of my picture files and lo and behold I came across the image of an e-mail that I saved some months ago. Actually the United States Mint sent this out as a mass e-mailing in August 2007. As I was reading the e-mail I had a word jump out at me. See if it does the same for you.The same type of thing popped off the page for me when I was preparing for our Kindergarten field trip to the zoo a couple of weeks ago. As some of you may know, we went to the Cameron Park Zoo. It is in Cameron Park which is just a few blocks away from our school. I was doing some research at the zoo web-site on their "General Information" page. If you go down to the section of the page titled "The Weather Factor" and then go to the sub-heading "Finally-....". In the heading the word "lightning" is misspelled. It is incorrectly spelled "lightening". The same misspelling is repeated in the text of the paragraph. Apparently the zoo puts the animals away when there is a storm threatening to cause them "to lose weight or become lighter in color".

Hmmmm!

Again, I guess this affliction that I have is all due to having been in education for 20+ years.

Did you find the problem in the US Mint e-mail? It is the word "configuration".

© 2008 Barry T Horst


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Retro Saturday, April 19, 2008

I took my class on field trip to the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco yesterday. I will have some pictures to post later but today is Retro Saturday. A trip to the zoo yesterday isn't quite retro today. But in keeping with the retro theme and the zoo I have a few clips from Captain Kangaroo and then an extra special clip. I know it's a stretch but I watched this when stuff when I was young and had great fun.

Here they are.

This is a clip from the very first episode in 1955.

And now the intro to a Tom Terrific cartoon from Captain Kangaroo.

And now let's stretch the theme one more time. I have a commercial from Beech Nut Fruit Stripe Gum from the 60's. Yep, animals in the commercial help me tie this back into the zoo theme.

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