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Moron that I am, I have cheerfully volunteered to help with data entry, using a list somebody collected somewhere last week
Perhaps if I stare hard enough at this gibberish, I'll intimidate some of this illegible mess into giving up its deep secrets
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I made some random marks on that page. What the fuck more could anyone possibly want? | |
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Been there. Done that. | |
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Oh, are you that jackass who mispronounced my name tonight? | |
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Well, we just gotta organize the public we actually have, not the public we wish had | |
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Why didn't anyone ever call me after I signed up? | |
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Yeah, some people are a trip. Some are a long strange trip -- but they're still a trip | |
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Hey! You could at least be grateful I didn't print: my printing is even worse than my scrawl! | |
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Always look on the bright side of life, bud | |
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Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)stare at the scribbly squiggles until filled with a profound and irrational conviction that the name could only be John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt or whatever; rinse and repeat
petronius
(26,604 posts)struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)petronius
(26,604 posts)competitors. Split the first and last names into separate columns, sort them each randomly, and stick them back together.
I'm sorry, that sounds really tedious. I'm reminded of one of my first internship jobs - years ago - was to proofread a whole bunch of Materials Safety Data Sheets that had been typed in by an outside data entry company. Very not fun...
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)I used to use invoices that were more or less unreadable but when my students understood the context such as hardware store invoices... pharmacy scrips... traffic tickets... we could most times come up with content everyone could agree upon.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)names, emails, phone numbers, etc so they could volunteer to beat back some of the tsunami of craziness washing out of our legislature:
I want to help! Here's my name Squiggle and email Scribble!