by Pa Rock
Struggling Typist
Ranger Bob and I had a (mostly) off-line discussion this past Sunday afternoon regarding something I had said in a blog about the old television show, "Welcome Back, Kotter." Bob thought that a line I had used was out of place and was probably the result of "auto-correct" trying to be helpful. It turned out "auto-correct"was not involved, the original words were mine, and I was just trying to sound smarter than I actually am.
At about that same time my son, Tim, was stranded out on a tarmac at the Kansas City International Airport (KCI) during an emergency evacuation of the building. Tim sent an email telling me of his situation, and he mentioned that the delay in his flight had given him time to catch up on my blog. He also commented on the posting about "Welcome Back, Kotter." Tim said that he thought he had read somewhere that the actor who played the high school teacher, Mr. Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) is now a professional poker player. But in Tim's email, "auto-correct" did not like "Mr. Kotter" and decided to change it to "Mr. Kitten."
The following day (Monday) I wrote a posting about all of the commotion that had occurred the day before at KCI, and positied a couple of personal theories as to what might have caused a police canine unit response and the evacuation of the airport. Late that evening my friend Rose, who lives in Kansas City, emailed saying that Kansas City television stations were saying the evacuation was likely the result of a "swatting" incident by a radical group calling itself the "Kitty Mafia."
That worried me for a bit, especially because I had received an email referring to a "Mr. Kitten" during the evacuation, but so far Stephen Miller hasn't shown up at the door to seize my laptop and ship me off to El Salvador. I couldn't find anything on-line regarding the "Kitty Mafia" except a couple of Kansas City stories which suggsted that group might have been tied to a bomb alert at the KCI airport. There was, however, information on a tax-exempt cat rescue organization in Las Vegas, Nevada, that calls itself the "Kitty Mafia." Homeland Security storming a cat rescue - or a cat house: either would probably make a great YouTube video!
Now back to "auto-correct." Here is one of my favorite jokes:
A minister, a priest, and a rabbit walk into a bar, and the bartender comes over and says, "Hey Rabbit, what'll you have?" The startled rabbit replies, "Don't ask me, I'm only here because of auto-correct!"
That's probably why I'm here, too!
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