Spell checker changes students' names in high school yearbook

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'Max Zupanovic is now listed as "Max Supernova" and Kathy Carbaugh became "Kathy Airbag." And then there's Alessandra Ippolito who will have to explain to future generations why she was known as "Alexandria Impolite" in high school.'

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_23390.aspx

[unpossibles]

1. man! I'd love to be Max Supernova!

my name gets butchered the old fashioned way.

[Reverend_Smitty]

19. I know!

That is possibly the coolest name ever! I would embrace that mistake and run with it for the rest of my life

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. No kidding! Move over, Max Headroom!!

:rofl:

[DarkTirade]

26. That's almost as bad-ass as Max Powers.

[DS1]

2. Don't blame the spell-checker, blame the *cough cough ahem*

FUCKING MORON who ran it through everything.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. That's

moran to you.

[DS1]

4. You're dead to me. Ignored.

[BarenakedLady]

5. Who made you teh gawd of teh internets?

[DS1]

9. What do you mean "made" ?

[madinmaryland]

7. HUGH MORAN!!1!! SERIESLY!!

[Gormy Cuss]

8. The yearbook company offered to fix the errors

by issuing stickers that can be placed over the 'corrected' names. Yeah, like that's a good response to this fuck up. Someone should sue the bastards for gross incompetence.

[Midlodemocrat]

10. At the very least, those affected students should get a free yearbook.

[Gormy Cuss]

22. Free quite frankly isn't good enough.

Yearbooks are big business and the spokesperson's attitude was cavalier. At the very least they should print a correction insert and let the school distribute it and refund the fee paid by the affected kids. If I were faculty in charge of the yearbook ordering I'd be looking for another vendor.

We adults know that in the greater scheme of things they mean nothing, but I still remember how upset some kids in my high school were when there was an editing error in their accomplishments list, or when they looked bad in group shots.

[Midlodemocrat]

True. Not like there's a dearth of yearbook companies.

TM's was $65 this year. :wow:

And, they won't get it until September so that they can have graduation coverage and coverage of spring sports.

[Pierre.Suave]

6. ROFL

why did I not think of that when I was in HS and working on the yearbook???

Damn what a missed opportunity...

:rofl:

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12. We even had a fake student in our yearbook (1976)

named Mona Chester, complete with fake photo and fake bio. "Likes throbbing hot dogs..." etc. I'm surprised the teacher of the yearbook class allowed it.

[Pierre.Suave]

14. Thats funny

we had nothing in our yearbook even remotely creative or funny. The advisers took all the fun out of it. Quite depressing actually. I do not even have a copy. And there was ad space in the back, full of advertising that was bought by local businesses. The whole thing was very sad.

[SCantiGOP]

24. I agree with jasonc

My high school was pretty humorless. Every year the junior class got to vote for their senior class slogan. My junior year the slogan was 'Never so great as 68.' Well, with the historic year of 1969 coming, there were whisper campaigns for the best slogan. I knew someone in the group that counted and tabulated the results. Number 1 was "Recline and dine in 69," and second was "Nothing could be finer than to be a sixty-niner." The principal gets up at the final assembly and announces the winner as "Never so fine as 69."

[Richardo]

11. When I was in high school we had to make our OWN spelling mistakes - by HAND!!1

We didn't have any new fangled computatin' machines to do it for us.

True fact: The tickets for my 10th High School reunion in 1984 read: "Palm Springs High Scool Class of 1974" :dunce:

Me --> :rofl: :shrug: :cry: :shrug: :rofl:

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13. All the mistakes in my yearbook are handwritten ones:

People commonly wrote things like "I will always rember you" and someone got "You are a very nice gril."

[Pierre.Suave]

15. That makes sense

were you not the class of 1974?

1984 IS 10 years after 1974...

am I missing something?

[Richardo]

16. It's not the math, it's the spelling

;-)

[Pierre.Suave]

18. HAHAHA

Oops...

:rofl: I guess my brain filled in the missing "h" for me and kept right on going...

[lightningandsnow]

17. ...

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

20. More proof that a human brain will never be superceded by a computer.

"Yearbook Designer" was probably revised as "Youra Douchebag" too...


Uh-oh. I just devolved by saying an uncouth derogatory pop-culture word. x(

[Pierre.Suave]

23. Fuck it

tell anyone that complains to get over it, and themselves.

Seriously!

[YankeyMCC]

25. Well at least they don't have the problem poor Olynthus Dam had

when Ms Erlking required her students to use their first initial and last name on all their papers.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

27. Ironically, these were actually the real nicknames of the students.

So no harm, no foul.

[Courtesy Flush]

28. Yikes!!! My last name is Fuchs!

Glad I went to HS before spell check was invented.

[Blue-Jay]

29. Max Supernova is the most awesome name EVER!

Wolf Blitzer just got knocked down a peg.

[Courtesy Flush]

30. Verily. The guy's got no gripes.