Saw this sign on a display in Whole Foods the other day:
Okaay… but what if you’re allergic to fish?
Category: You Must be Mistaken
What it all Mean’s
Katie spotted this example of apostrophe abuse in an office parking lot.
The best service mean is…? Statistical analysis of dumpster service?
Is there any *ahem* meaning for which this would actually make sense?
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I’ll always remember a line from a play I was in during college. It was an original musical, and the composer couldn’t come up with a good line by the time he had to hand out the scripts, so he filled it in with “Come around and schmoo” just to keep the rhyme in place. Oddly, I can’t remember the line he finally replaced it with.
And of course, Firefox’s cookie preferences were labeled “Cookies are delicious delicacies” for so long during the beta period that by the time they wrote a real description for 1.0, someone wrote an extension to put it back in!
Well, sometimes dummy text makes it through “rehearsals,” so to speak. Jim Heid found live sites with various kinds of filler text. Not just the ubiquitous “Untitled document” (millions of pages), but samples of “lorem ipsum” filler and even ~250 hits for “this is placeholder text” (whoops, I’m gonna skew those results a bit.)
(via Scobleizer, who recommends using “xxxxx” exclusively for placeholders.)
Small parts will be what?
Here’s a candidate for Engrish.com if I ever saw one… except it’s aimed at the US market. This is from the back of a small metal Justice League figurine:
OK, I understand what they’re saying, it could break into small parts that could be a choking hazard. But the phrasing is awkward at best, and sounds like it belongs in a tech manual, not on a simple toy.
10% of nothing
This is a credit card offer I received today. What’s wrong with this picture?
The two offers—10% of your interest returned, and 0% interest—both look great by themselves…but put them together and that 10% looks rather uninteresting.