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July 4th, 2006 at 1:28 pm

We’re currently working on producing a dead tree version of The Escape Plan, featuring all 40 challenges and journal pages to record your adventures. Today, Kim was proofing the first draft and alerted me to a passage from Challenge #37 (Tastes Like Childhood.) In it, I am describing my experience eating a childhood favorite, Sour Patch Kids. Here’s how the original copy reads:

…Most grown-ups I knew didn’t know why I’d subject myself to such a horrible abomination disguised as candy. Sour Patch Kids truly are an assault on the ol’ tastebuds; I couldn’t get enough of ‘em as a kid. It’s been a long time since I’ve had one, but they still make me pucker.

Somehow, when the copy was transferred from the Web to our word processing program and went through the spell checker, this is how it came out:

…Most grown-ups I knew didn’t know why I’d subject myself to such a horrible abomination disguised as candy. Sour Patch Kids truly are an assault on the ol’ testicles; I couldn’t get enough of ‘em as a kid. It’s been a long time since I’ve had one, but they still make me pucker.

Good thing we’re utilizing human editors for this project. And for the record, I like Sour Patch Kids, but I don’t like them THAT much.

4 Comments on the Chalkboard »

14427

I actually laughed out loud at that, not so great at 5:30am

Comment by Ian Tyrrell on 7/4/2006 @ 1:47 pm

14552

Sour Patch Kids can be like a kick in the ol’, well you know, but I don’t think I like them that much either.

Here’s to human editors!

Comment by Phil Gerbyshak on 7/4/2006 @ 7:26 pm

14738

Oh dear.

Well, I’d suspect that any candy is an assault to the ol’ testicles.

Ummm…. okay.

Comment by Daniel on 7/5/2006 @ 11:10 am

15635

I had to show this to Dan so he would be warned of what would happen to him.

Comment by Pat on 7/10/2006 @ 7:01 am

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