Speaking of 'Qualty'

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Lee Storm wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/38363>:

<< Reminds me of a lovely error in a memo sent out by our department
head when I worked for AT&T Bell Labs.  (snip)  so, the memo subject
line was something like, "Upcoming Qualty Seminar." >>

Tom Digby wrote in Silicon Soapware #172 << There's a fast-food place
I go to fairly often that has a big sign up near the counter about how
Quality is a high priority with them.  It's their "Secret Ingredient".
There are several paragraphs of text about how much they care and how
well they treat their customers and how they'll make it right if
something's wrong, and so on.

Since this is a fast-food chain, most of the sign is silkscreened or
whatever the standard process for printing mass-produced signs is
nowadays.

But the word "Quality" is in individual glued-on plastic letters,
presumably for emphasis.

Or at least it was.  The "y" had been missing for weeks.  Maybe it
fell off, or maybe some impatient rush-hour customer with nothing
better to do while standing in line kind of helped it along, but be
the causes as they may, the sign had long been proclaiming that their
Secret Ingredient was "Qualit".  Then the "t" went the way of the "y"
and the Secret Ingredient became "Quali".

It had been that way for maybe a month.  As far as I could tell nobody
on the staff ever noticed.  Or if they did, nobody did anything about it.

Today things were different.  The "i" and "l" have swapped places, so
the Secret Ingredient is now "Quail".  Will it get noticed now?

FOLLOW-UP: The above was written in early December.  As of this
morning (December 29) the sign still said their Secret Ingredient was
"Quail".

How much longer will it remain that way? >>

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