The DU Lounge

NNadir

(37,815 posts)

14. I cheerfully plead guilty to the unconscionable crime of failure to cut and paste...

Thu Feb 12, 2026, 08:13 AM

Feb 12

...spellings into DU lookup.

By being a poor cut and paster however I did learn that there are many variants among DUes who admire the Hun enough to appropriate his name, one t, two ts, one l two ls with a number of additional terms added, including two referring to color, At....theblonde and At...theblue.

When I was young I thought I was a good speller until speller checkers disabused me of that inflated opinion of myself.

As I age it gets worse, although spell checkers can do horrible things to words, particularly in technical writing, not quite as bad as ChatGPT, but close.

What is even worse for me with my fat fingers is typing on a cellphone as I am doing now. Speller checkers seem not to save me from having "the" come off as "tge" because g and h are adjacent in the small QWERTY keyboard.

I do hope you were not offended by my crime, to which I pled guilty without Pam Bondi showing interest whitewashing my criminality, the crime of failure to cut and paste.

Have a nice day.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

31 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

DU Heart Contest: Give or Receive a Heart to Someone You Think Has a Really Cool DU Name. [View all] NNadir Feb 11 OP

Attilatheblonde alittlelark Feb 11 #1

I like that one. Do you want the heart for yourself or for AttillatheBlonde? NNadir Feb 11 #4

Attilatheblonde should get it alittlelark Feb 11 #5

I've seen Attillatheblonde's posts somewhere, but somehow, I can't find Attilla on DU lookup. For now, you get... NNadir Feb 12 #7

Only one l in Attila Donkees Feb 12 #10

Ok, done. There does, according to the lookup... NNadir Feb 12 #11

Posts 1 and 5 in this thread include the spelling :) Donkees Feb 12 #12

I cheerfully plead guilty to the unconscionable crime of failure to cut and paste... NNadir Feb 12 #14

Mousetoescamper, mahatmakanejeeves Easterncedar Feb 11 #2

regnaD kciN Easterncedar Feb 11 #3

I vaguely remember there being Firesign Theater, but the reference goes over my head. Still I like it. NNadir Feb 12 #8

Thanks. One for regnaD, if you like Easterncedar Feb 12 #13

Will do. Thanks for playing. NNadir Feb 12 #15

Thanks for the idea. I hope you don't mind my tagging along a little Easterncedar Feb 12 #19

Done. NNadir Feb 12 #16

As an old Monty Python fan, I have to give the nod to Muriel Volestrangler. nt eppur_se_muova Feb 12 #6

OK, I'll go with that. Will the heart be for you or for Muriel Volestrangler? NNadir Feb 12 #9

Oh, for her, of course ! I'm kind of bad about reading instructions -- the more my prescription is out eppur_se_muova Feb 12 #20

Done. NNadir Feb 12 #21

That Username Has Been... ProfessorGAC Feb 12 #22

I nominate SalmonChantedEvening in remembrance Donkees Feb 12 #17

One for you for that thought Easterncedar Feb 12 #18

You know what? All of us miss that magnificent DUer. NNadir Feb 12 #23

Done. We are not alone. There was one other memorial heart. NNadir Feb 12 #24

🧡 Thank You Donkees Feb 12 #25

I've always loved the name "2naSalit". Totally Tunsie Feb 12 #26

Oh yes! An outstanding poster as well. I may have given her hearts previously, but I'll give her another now. NNadir Feb 13 #27

Done. NNadir Feb 13 #28

Thank you, thank you, NNadir! Totally Tunsie Feb 13 #29

It is hard to know about gender if not told in an anonymous blog. NNadir Feb 13 #30

Well said, NNadir. Totally Tunsie Feb 13 #31