Chamblee54

Chamblee 54 is two days into the new year, and has not been updated. Maybe a repost of blasts from the past will do. Last year, the first post of the new year was about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and a few of his wise words. It seems that sometimes Farsi does not translate well into English.
The year before, there was an essay about Black Sabbath and eating cold spinach for lunch. The first use of the phrase “heavy metal” was in a book by William Burroughs. In “The Soft Machine, there was a character named Uranian Willie, the heavy metal kid.
In 2006, there was a tribute to spell check. Once an exotic technology, spell check is found in almost every digital text device today. This is our repost for today.
Spell check is a wonderful feature. When you misspell a word, you look stupid. It takes away from the message you are trying to present, by focusing attention on your spelling mistakes. (“Profanity” serves the same function, but that is a topic for another day.) It is like the old ad slogan: “Aren’t you glad you use Dial soap, don’t you wish everyone did?”
When spellcheck catches a mistake, it helpfully offers suggested correct spellings. PG began to notice some of the suggested spellings. Some are, well, poetic. It is what you could call a synchronistic connection. Often, the suggested spelling is truer than the real word.
An example of this is inerrant. For those of you fortunate enough not to be baptist, inerrancy is the belief that the bible is perfect. There are no errors, it is inerrant. The spell check suggestion for inerrant is ignorant .
PG started to save spell check suggestions, with the idea of posting them to the blog (blob). A best of list has been thoughtfully made.
blog…blob/// Cheney…teeny/// christian…tearstain/// crockpots…crackpots/// elvis…Elvis levies elves pelvis envies olives selves elsie/// i ching….chink///inerrancy….ignorance/// jesus…Jesus jests guess gases gooses guesses disuse disease/// Latino…lotion/// mens…mess/// rupaul…rural/// Saddam…sadism sadder sad sadie sodium sodom/// Satan…stain