Mama Weer All Crazee Now

Today's email thread between miatomic and umlaut.

miatomic: Funny…even with the error: http://mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/22JohnMoe.html

umlaut: HA.. Nice catch. It's *almost* up to Umlaut standards... Almost. I love Slade... mainly because they weren't afraid to use alternative spelling in their song titles... Coz I Love You... Mama Weer All Crazee Now.. Gudbuy T'Jane.. Cum On Feel The Noize.. Skweeze Me Pleeze Me... etc. etc.

miatomic: I knew a guy named Slade when I worked at TSR -- he made a HUGE editorial error when he did a global search and replace on a manuscript for the Complete Wizards Almanac to change the word mage to wizard. Unfortunately, he neglected to add a space before the word during his search, thus changing every instance of the letters m-a-g-e to w-i-z-a-r-d. The result: All instances of the word DAMAGE were changed to DAWIZARD.

And of course, he didn’t check the manuscript after performing the global search and replace, so it went off to the printer…and the rest is a little bit of funny TSR history.

umlaut: CRAZEE!