Archive for February, 2007

Truth in advertising?

February 28, 2007
By alan
Truth in advertising?

I met some friends at the pub last night and I saw this poster that I thought was priceless. You can WIN 100′s of thousands of dollar$ in cash & prizes! Then look in the bottom righthand corner. 1st place $150, 2nd place $50. You can wins hundreds of thousands of dollar$ but you’d...
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Where would we be without church signs?

February 24, 2007
By alan
Where would we be without church signs?

Here are a couple more classics from those geniuses that think you can billboard faith. The first comes from the Springwood Presbyterian Church in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Would you worship Jesus if he scored 10,000 test runs? Certainly not. He’d probably be playing for Nazareth. And then he’d no doubt turn...
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Some of the coolest just ain’t true

February 22, 2007
By alan
Some of the coolest just ain’t true

It’s a well known fact that many very famous quotes from the worlds greatest movie stars were never actually uttered by those stars. Sylvester Stallone never said, “Don’t push me!” in First Blood. He actually asked, quite calmly, “Why are you pushing me?” More recently he may have asked Australian authorities, “Why are you...
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The product or the place?

February 13, 2007
By alan
The product or the place?

Every now and then I go past a big shop window with huge, brightly painted letters saying: MASSIVE PERSIAN RUG SALE HERE! Or something similar. I know it’s my pedantism, but it always occurs to me that sentences like this are ambiguous. Is it the sale or the rugs that are massive? It could...
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This weeks incomprehensible headline

February 4, 2007
By alan
This weeks incomprehensible headline

Have a look at this weeks front page headline from the Woking Review: Yes, it really does say Moves to block tip flats plan. It might seem as though someone took a handful of random letters from the Scrabble bag and made words from them. Then someone that doesn’t speak English chose the order...
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