Merciful Zeus, it's been a cavalcade of chicanery in the land of captioning errata and silliness. In no particular order:
Dramatic times in Iraq. As tension mounted, John Kerry offered, according to my captions, his "in tents" military support. Which, actually, may well prove true - troops in the desert gotta sleep somewhere after all. Horrific also to hear of ISIS operatives executing civilians "in cold lard". War is high-cholesterol hell.
Also in the headlines, a rough time for Canadian politician Rob Ford at the moment. Catching heat for his drug use, and now, according to my captions, demoted to "mayor of tomato".
A nice bit of political input from my Dragon - "nerve wracking" was captioned as "no fracking". Fight the good fight, brother.
In the offline captioning realm (where thankfully the errors stay off the air), nature documentaries have provided some excellent mishaps. A species of newly discovered marsupial were described as "insect divorce" - I'll admit that I'd never given much thought to bumblebee broken homes. The biologist looking to tag them and track their movements used "Oates" as bait (I'm guessing Hall is mainly reserved for catching bigger game). And in a feature on the rather singular digestive system of cows, we discovered that they munch on "grass and hate". Hence, I suppose, the steely glint in their bovine eyes.
I respoke the word "ginormous" knowing it could well be outside of Dragon's expertise. But I giggled at the naughty double entendre when it emerged as "John Thomas". In a similar vein, a performer proclaimed her excitement to be told by the choreographer "what dancers I'll be doing". And veteran Australian footballer Rene Kink came out as "rent a kink". Professional BDSM is, I suppose, one possible career path post-AFL.
Lastly, we delve into the spiritual. A Catholic Mass was broadcast by one of our clients, prompting two brilliant Dragon mishearings. First the creed affirmed the congregation's faith in "The Father, the Son, and the whole lease period", and later the Lord's Prayer concluded, "what ever and ever, are men". What indeed.
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