[SOC] [OT] Electrical Puns

[Ray Goff]

>It ain't only radiddio ops that make SOC blunders, y'know.

I work for a company which produces software packages for the creation and
transmission of subtitles, which is used by TV stations to subtitle their
programming output.

One part of the software is used for live subtitling of news breaks, which in
itself takes some fairly skilled operators. To assist them in their endeavours,
our software offers a 'feature' called shortforms. Basically, this allows the
operator to define abbreviations for words which, when followed by a space, will
expand automatically into a longer word. This helps with speed typing of what
the news reader is saying, for example TU<space> might expand into Tuesday.

Well, one evening on the news Tuberculosis was top of the running order as it is
on the increase in the UK and it is believed to be spread, in part, by Badgers.

The newsreader said "The government is considering a cull of Badgers to prevent
the spread of TB."

However, unknown to the poor hapless subtitler, somebody had entered a shortform
for TB. As a result, the subtitle went on transmission as "The government is
considering a cull of Badgers to prevent the spread of Tony Blair".

If you want to really mess it up, leave it to a computer...

73

Ray, G4FON