The omitted word.

[vakkotaur]

There are times I accidently drop a word from something I write and it changes the meaning of a sentence rather badly. Often the word is "no" or "not" which reverses the meaning. Today someone at work (no, not me) sent a short e-mail and omitted a word in a rather embarrassing manner.

There was no body, just the subject:

Small black found in parking lot.... Does anyone own it???

Before I could reply (to sender only!) that I was sure there was an amendment forbidding such things, someone replied to all, with an addendum. Just one word added in the body:

CAT

An instant later the original sender re-sent, again no body, just the subject:

That would be a Black CAT

Comments

[ginafae.livejournal.com]

D'OH!

[melissasutton.livejournal.com]

(LOL) rather important ommission =)

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

D'ohhhhhh!

Reminds me of the time in college when there was a note on the elevator saying that the "black people detector" was broken.

Whoever wrote that note was referring to the pressure-sensitive vertical black bar inside the edge of the door. It's black... and it detects people.