bacabre

[Wilson Gray]

Sigh! I just want to testify that, IME, it's not nearly so difficult
as even a trivially-skilled keyboarder might assume. I keyboard with
one finger while looking at the keyboard, yet I'm sometimes stunned
when I look up to see the (non-)final result.

-Wilson

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My immediate suspicion was, as Randy suggests, that she had a cold. However=
> ,
> I reasoned that that, even if true, should not have affected her typing.
>
> My second hypothesis was Wilson's: a mere typo.  However, in my own
> experience, while it is E-Z to hit an adjacent key, it is uncommon to hit
> one two keys over.  Not impossible, but not likely.
>
> The final hypothesis (which I may use as the title for my next
> majormotionpicture): the "b" comes partly from mishearing, partly from
> Lauren Bacall.
>
> Why should it have to make sense?
>
> JL
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Randy Alexander
> <strangeguitars at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote=
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>> >>> From a student at San Francisco State in 2007:
>> >>>
>> >>> =C3=82 "i have also heard the actual wax recording whcih sounds so ba=
> cabre,
>> but in
>> >>> fact is an amazing experience"
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> http://vote.sparklit.com/comments.spark?contentID=3D1047430&pollID=3D1000=
> 416
>> >>>
>> >>> She's talking about Tennyson's top-forty recording in 1892 of "The
>> Charge of
>> >>> the Light Brigade."
>> >>>
>> >>> It doesn't strike me as particularly bacabre.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Where do you think the <b> is coming from?
>> > --
>> >
>> > =C2 From "bizarre" maybe.
>>
>> This is more what I was looking for, unless as per Wilson's language
>> change perspective, the speaker would say "hey bom, could you bake be
>> some buffins?"
>>
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>> Randy Alexander
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