Oh, Tina, Tina, Tina
Truly Donovan
Spotted two tupos in the *New Yorker* this week, although one was in an
ad ("accomodations"), so it doesn't count for quite as much, but the
other one even a spell-checker would have caught ("enerprise").
It's true -- there's nothing sacred.
Truly Donovan
AB
In article <31E035...@lunemere.com> Truly Donovan <tr...@lunemere.com> writes:
>From: Truly Donovan <tr...@lunemere.com>
>Subject: Oh, Tina, Tina, Tina
>Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 16:09:20 -0600
>Truly Donovan
BTW, what is a "tupo"?
Truly Donovan
> BTW, what is a "tupo"?
"Tupo" is short for "tupograph7cla error," an expression I picked up in an
earlier netlife.
Truly Donova
Mike Barnes
The dancing digits of AB <Ca...@ami.net> created this pronouncement in
alt.usage.english...
>>Subject: Oh, Tina, Tina, Tina
>>Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 16:09:20 -0600
>
>>ad ("accomodations"), so it doesn't count for quite as much, but the
>>other one even a spell-checker would have caught ("enerprise").
>
>>It's true -- there's nothing sacred.
>
>
>
>BTW, what is a "tupo"?
>
It's a product of an error-graphical typer. What's a spineroosm?
Regards, Mike.
--
Mike Barnes, Stockport, England.
This week's hot tips for the lottery: 12, 14, 23, 32, 38, 34.
Roy Lakin
In article <31E0BB...@lunemere.com>,
Truly Donovan <tr...@lunemere.com> wrote:
>"Tupo" is short for "tupograph7cla error," an expression I picked up in an
>earlier netlife.
>
>Truly Donova
Were you Spuke Milligna's typist in 1953?
"There are no jokes in this joke tonk."
Roy (not cross-posted to alt.fan.goons)
dag...@usa.pipeline.com
On Jul 08, 1996 11:40:38 in article <Re: Oh, Tina, Tina, Tina>, 'Mike
Barnes <mi...@exodus.co.uk>' wrote:
>>BTW, what is a "tupo"?
>>
>
>It's a product of an error-graphical typer. What's a spineroosm?
Spineroosm is the stuff that slowly flows from wounds received when hugging
your pet porcupine too closely. What's acupuncture?
Wendy Mueller
Max Crittenden
In article <Cathy.117...@ami.net>, Ca...@ami.net (AB) wrote:
> Truly Donovan <tr...@lunemere.com> writes:
> > Spotted two tupos in the *New Yorker*...
> BTW, what is a "tupo"?
Truly is using a perfectly logical spelling based on an alternative
convention for transliterating Greek, wherein upsilon becomes U
rather than Y. More logical than "typo" in fact, since U comes
closer than Y to approximating the Greek pronunciation. I'm all
for this revisionist spelling, though no doubt I've missed a few
opportunities to use it in this post.
What's Tina's excuse?
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Max Crittenden Menlo Park, California
Daan Sandee
In article <4rrbn8$q...@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.com>, dag...@usa.pipeline.com writes:
|> On Jul 08, 1996 11:40:38 in article <Re: Oh, Tina, Tina, Tina>, 'Mike
|> Barnes <mi...@exodus.co.uk>' wrote:
|>
|>
|> >
|>
|> I know I shouldn't infect this thread, too, but I just can't help myself!
Too late. (Subject line changed to assist killfiles.)
|> Spineroosm is the stuff that slowly flows from wounds received when hugging
|> your pet porcupine too closely. What's acupuncture?
A leak in a car battery. What's a carburant ?
Daan Sandee
Burlington, MA san...@think.com
Michael B. Quinion
In article: <4rqq1q$o...@eccles.dsbc.icl.co.uk> r...@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Roy
>
> In article <31E0BB...@lunemere.com>,
> Truly Donovan <tr...@lunemere.com> wrote:
> >"Tupo" is short for "tupograph7cla error," an expression I picked up
> >in an earlier netlife.
If we're going to quote 40-year-old jokes (and on reflection why not?
most of us on this group must be well in excess of that age and so
at least can claim to have experienced them first time round) let's get
them right. The error was made by a harrassed BBC typist trying to get
Spike's script ready for a live broadcast of The Goon Show in about ten
minutes' time, and mistyped his name as "Spine Milligna", which the
ungrateful sod then had the gall to make a joke of on the air: "with Mr
Spine Milligna, the well-known typing error".
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