More Word spell check fun...

[valis2]

Word thinks "manticore" should be "mantic ore" or "manicure".

I don't know about you, but having a "manicure" rampaging about in a fic is just not as awe-inspiring as a manticore. Seriously.

Comments

[pen-and-umbra.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. I've seen some seriously scary manicures. But WTF is "mantic ore"?

[valis2.livejournal.com]

It's a frenetic orc with a rather craggy appearance.

Or a rock with rather hyperactive mineral deposits.

[snapekisser.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a manicurist/nail tech by trade, and I've seen some pretty darn scary manicures. And you don't even want to know about the pedicures!

Heh.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

But do you think it would frighten hardcore Death Eaters? Excepting Lucius, of course.

[snapekisser.livejournal.com]

Toenail fungus is a truly scary thing, I'm telling you. *winkitywink*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Something tells me that toenail fungus is a way of life for Goyle.

[gina-r-snape.livejournal.com]

Oh gawd. Now I'm having a plot bunny about a bad magical manicurist spreading ugly colour and jagged nails and cuticles every time she waves her wand...

[valis2.livejournal.com]

A bad pedicurist could do a lot of damage too. "Bunionesco!"

[snapesforte.livejournal.com]

ROTFLMAO!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Word can be so amusing, honestly. Some of the grammar "mistakes" it corrects are awful too.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

First Snape gets attacked by a rampaging manicure, then next, someone tries to wash his hair.

The horror, the horror!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Just wait for the Attack of the Plastic Surgeon (Chapter 1: The Nose).

[superbunny3000.livejournal.com]

i'd face down a scary manicure over a rampaging eyebrow waxing any day. or any waxing for that matter.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear! Especially (shudder) bikini waxing.

[avus.livejournal.com]

There once was a thrice fierce manticore
Whose rages were fiercely manic or
Rather depressed.
Bipolar, I guess,
'Til lithium became its manic-cure.

Bad, I know, but what can you expect on the fly? Not literally what Word thought, but perhaps close. And nothing dirty about it. Gee, maybe I'm recovering?

[valis2.livejournal.com]

A clean limerick? *boggles* What's the world coming to?

[avus.livejournal.com]

We are clearly in an age of decline.

[bootstrapbetti.livejournal.com]

Somehow, Word never ceases to amuse me. Lots of the suggestions are completely insane. I always wonder who invents these things. I mean, there must be people who put all the words into it, right? Then who the hell is in this company, putting in all the weird words?

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I vaguely recall some sort of funny thing about Windows 98 Word...where if you typed "Bill Gate Sucks" in as a phrase to be checked it would say something sympathetic in return...