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"It turns out he wasn't noticing the space between the 'o' and the 'I' in 'Do It'; in the sans-serif system font we were using, a capital 'I' looked very much like a lower case 'l', so he was reading 'Do It' as 'Dolt' and was therefore kind of offended."

"He [said], 'I'm not a dolt, why is the software calling me a dolt?'"

It's a good thing they resisted the urge to make the obvious joke, and just changed the software.



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