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That’s not how you spell contractor…
A contractor, of all people, visited me today carrying the plans for a major piece of redevelopment at work.
Essentially, there were three rolls of blueprints, all final versions produced by the county council, which had been with the contractors for a few months… one of which had a rather interesting spelling mistake. See if you can spot it:

Nice to see that the county think the same way as we minor plebs do about contractors…
The replacement staff member…
Herm… That wasn’t the kind of cup I was after…
Whilst googling like my usual manic self to find a problem we have with a Dell printer via cups, I got this mildly odd result:
[PDF] Chapter 1 SAFETY ASSESSMENT File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML The ear muff consists of two rigid cups or shell(The hard shell outside ... ERROR: syntaxerror.
So, there you go… if you’ve ever worried about the safety of ear muffs, let that document be a testament to their safety!
A little note…
There’s a tedency in the place that I work for little bits of paper to be circulated around. Apparently, this new fangled technology is called a hand-written memo. So anyway, a person is hotly dispatched to deliver a highly urgent piece of scrawled writing to me, and this is what it said:
Any clues, anyone?





