Damn You, Autocorrect!: Awesomely Embarrassing Text Messages You Didn't Mean to Send [Paperback]

Jillian Madison (Author)

Book Description

Release date: March 22, 2011

Sh#@ Your Phone Says

"Damn You, Autocorrect!"

If you own an iPhone, BlackBerry, Droid, or any smartphone, there's a good chance you've screamed that phrase out at least once. In Damn You, Autocorrect!, Pop-culture blogger Jillian Madison shows you are not alone.

Filled with submissions from readers of her popular website, this laugh-out-loud funny book features cringe-worthy exchanges with parents, friends, significant others, and co-workers that contain some of the most unintentionally hilarious--and mortifying--mistakes ever caused by Autocorrect. Inside, you'll find a husband who tells his wife that he just "laid" (paid) the babysitter, a dad who tells his daughter that he and her mom are going to "divorce" (Disney), and many more epic texting fails too raunchy to list here.

Whether you love technology, texting humor, or taking just a little bit of pleasure in the misfortune of others, Damn You, Autocorrect! will leave you laughing until you cry, and thankful that nothing this embarrassing has happened to you. Yet.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Completely and utterly hilarious" -- Stephen Fry --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Jillian Madison is the founder of Pophangover.com, a snarky pop culture blog network that launched in the summer of 1999. The site has been visited by tens of millions of people, and has grown into one of the Internet's premiere destinations for clever original humor and pop culture news. Pophangover content is constantly retweeted by celebrities and referenced by the Huffington Post, AOL's Pop Eater, CNN, and VH1's Best Week Ever. Sadly, Madison is also an Autocorrect victim herself (she once invited her friends over for a night of fellatio, rather than gelato). She lives in Orange, CT.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion (March 22, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401310672
• ISBN-13: 978-1401310677
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Damn You, Autocorrect! April 11, 2011

By Stefani A. Madison

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I haven't laughed this hard since my ex got run over by a honeywagon! By Page 2 I was literally laughing so hard tears were streaming down both cheeks - er, my face - and my roomie had to come see why I was making such odd choking sounds. Jillian Madison has struck pure gold with her idea for collecting these nuggets of testicle...tentacle...dammit! ...TEXTUAL tribulations and I am now a fan for life!
This book is tonally worm every penis! Buy one for yourself and one for each of your fiends. You won't repent it!

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A good gift for the digitally challenged April 8, 2011

By Debra Hamel TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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I discovered the site damnyouautocorrect.com a few weeks ago and was almost literally ROFLOLing, as the kids say (sort of). It was the kind of laughter that is surely therapeutic--abdominal-crunching, urinary-mishap-inducing. Looking for more of the same, I downloaded the book version of the site to my Kindle. Like the site, Damn You, Autocorrect! features screen shots of texted conversations that have gone embarrassingly awry because someone's smartphone autocorrected their text inappropriately. For example:

> whatcha up to?

< Nothin, just cleaning mom's vagina for thanksgiving.

> hahaahaahh WHAT????

< Agh! I tried to type china. Auto-correct fail!
< Bad visual

> yeah I think she can handle the other thing on her own.

The book includes 300 texted conversations, most of which have not previously appeared on the web site. Some of them are very funny, but my impression is that the percentage of laugh-out-loud autocorrect faux pas that are really good is lower in the book than on the web site. Or maybe it's just that there are a lot more examples to paw through on the site than in the book, so the success rate on the site seems higher. At any rate, I'd say that the book is not a necessary read. If you're a web savvy digital ager, stick with the web site. If, on the other hand, you want to buy a gift for someone who is digitally challenged, then picking up a copy of Damn You, Autocorrect! makes good sense.

-- Debra Hamel

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars for anyone that ever sends texts July 28, 2011

By D. Bruce

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I find very few books LOL funny, but this one had me crying I was laughing so hard...if you have ever had autocorrect send exactly the wrong message to someone, you will relate to this book. All I can say is that I was literally rotflmao the whole time I was reading the book....
(PS - I don't usually write in "textese" but it just seemed so appropriate for this review!)