For want of an "L"
Narrowly avoided onosecond:

My mom was half-jokingly trying to set me up with a young woman she knows. I was interested, but not too much because she lived literally 1000 miles away. I would joke to my mother that her biological clock was ticking for grandbabies. So in one email, I meant to write:

"Biological clock ticking? Tic toc, tic toc. Oh, wait, that's MY clock."

What I saw just an onosecond before hitting send, I had typed:

"Oh, wait, that's my cock."

I hope she would have known what I meant, but then again, she does know me and wouldn't be surprised.
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Fri 27 May 2005, 0:54, Reply)