Random Silly Grins

RAvery · January 26, 2019, 5:07pm

So who were these caroots aimed at? People who liked the Beatles but had never heard them?

LearnedCoward · January 26, 2019, 5:24pm

knoxblox · January 26, 2019, 6:22pm

There were a few. The Jackson Five and The Osmonds, to boot.

Then there were the fictitious ones like Josie and the Pussycats.

MalevolentPixy · January 26, 2019, 8:21pm

ETA: apparently, there is context.

Franko · January 26, 2019, 8:38pm

and the Partridge Family!

Daveb · January 26, 2019, 8:50pm

So it’s not the fact that it seems to be rambling?

chgoliz · January 26, 2019, 9:19pm

The Monkees too; like the Partridge Family, they had one actual singer and one actual musician (who could also sing), but otherwise the rest were for show.

noahdjango · January 26, 2019, 9:23pm

RAvery · January 26, 2019, 10:09pm

Well at least the Archies performed their own music!

Nightflyer · January 26, 2019, 10:33pm

True, though they got better.

Daveb · January 26, 2019, 11:15pm

Like bill and ted?

LearnedCoward · January 27, 2019, 1:42am

As an engineer, I’m not sure why the OCR programs don’t use n-grams, word frequency analysis, etc to smooth everything over. For example, why in God’s name would anyone or anything think “pauiEjqo aq jou pjnoqs juauiAolua jEnxas 3Apsa§ip aqj jo ajnjEu uappiqjoj puE” means anything except “oh shit, the book is upside down, I should fix this post haste”?

But the perpetual 12-year-old in me is glad that we have such poor OCR technology, because otherwise, we wouldn’t have:

… without speaking, knelt down by his bed-side, and took him in her anus .

And:

Lizzie took him in her anus , and sat down to hush him.

And:

Jimmy stopped, recognized her, and broke into piteous sobs, crying for sheer joy, as she took him in her anus .

And basically every time anyone takes anyone else in their anus.

kxkvi · January 27, 2019, 3:25am

I wonder if the reverse mistake ever happens?

RAvery · January 27, 2019, 4:28am

…And here we have the planet Yur Arms.

ChickieD · January 27, 2019, 4:28am

Well, I, for one, like these new versions. You may say it’s not as romantic, butt…

Nonentity · January 27, 2019, 4:32am

Just so long as we don’t need to hear about the weird things coming out of (or going into) your arms, it’s fine.

nimelennar · January 27, 2019, 4:36am

And as she took him in her arms, she gasped at the strange and new feelings it produced inside her.

Wisconsin_Platt · January 27, 2019, 4:59am

That was my first thought. I completely missed how accomplished she was with sphincter control until I read the context.

A good copy editor could have tightened that up a bit.
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Unlike her anus.

Wisconsin_Platt · January 27, 2019, 5:04am

And while we are talking romance novels…

Original tweet when the unroll disappears.

nimelennar · January 27, 2019, 5:06am

unsecured portal of an electronic voting source code

All right, I now know how many tech advisers they employed to help write this novel…