[Crumb's Crunchy Delights]

i love things like this. post funny mistakes seen in ads etc.

this is one of my favorites:

 

[Tokolosh]

 

[atari 2600]

Um, "orthopaedic" is an accepted variant of "orthopedic." Am I missing something else I'm not seeing?

I do see the mistake in the Microsoft ad with the inclusion of the apostrophe in "it's" when it shouldn't be there.

Damn, writers for Letterman (Small Town News) or Leno (Headlines) would reject both of these in a heartbeat because I fail to see any humor really.

Although it is funny (as in funny=odd) that Microsoft, as one of the richest corporations in the world, cannot get its grammar correct.

[Crumb's Crunchy Delights]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

Um, "orthopaedic" is an accepted variant of "orthopedic." Am I missing something else I'm not seeing?

can't you see it? the number should end 1701.

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by Crumb's Crunchy Delights

can't you see it? the number should end 1701.

And why is that exactly?

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:uC5K_oGAPFYJ:www.greatrivermedical. org/physicians/index.php%3FselectName%3DH+great+river+orthopaedic &hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

[flophousefloozie]

What? How is that funny?

[atari 2600]

That's the same thing I was wondering.

The published phone number is the same as in the ad above.

 

[flophousefloozie]

Yeah, I'm really getting a kick out of his "Melvins to reform" thread.

[atari 2600]

I suppose his real agenda is to post this doctor's contact info hoping that someone will crank call him or something.

[flophousefloozie]

Now, is it "crank", or "prank"? I've grown to familiarize myself with "prank", but I seem to be part of a minority.

[atari 2600]

It's either, I just cannot seem to resist alliteration.

[gmku]

Here's a real live walking mistake. I was walking across the street, minding my business, going with the walk sign, in the crosswalk, when a big pickup turning into the street almost doesn't stop and about runs me over.

He puts on the brakes and yells at ME, the pedestrian! I yell back, "Hey, I'm a PEDESTRIAN, asshole!" but the chicken shit speeds off.

So down the block a bit as I go on walking, some guy who's apparently just parked and is walking across the street grins at me, shaking his head, and goes, "Wow. What was up with that dude?"

He looks fairly congenial, and fairly cool, long-hair in a pony tail, rather intellectual-looking, confident, in his late 20s, heading for an engineering college building. I'm thinking, I can joke a bit with this congenial fellow. He'll share my angst.

"Yeah, I don't know," I say congenially, chuckling a little. "You know, big boys and their big trucks."

He chuckles and says, "Well, I can't say anything. I own a big truck," and points, and yeah, it's a big truck. And then I notice that yeah, he's kind of a stout guy.

"Oh, sorry," I stammer. "I didn't mean anything."

"It's okay," he says, not smilling as much now. "I usually just think when I'm walking and a big truck comes for me, I'm getting out of the way because it's going to kill me before I kill it."

Heh heh. (Me)

"Well, have a good day," he says, going on his way.

Christ, me and my big fucking mouth. Somebody help me extract foot.

[flophousefloozie]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

It's either, I just cannot seem to resist alliteration.

I can relate. The original word was, in fact, prank, though. No?

I've pondered this question for far too long now...

[atari 2600]

Oh shit, gmku...haha a Larry David moment...I have so many of those myself. That's an absolutely amusing account. There goes the alliteration again. And again. And again...

I don't know which came first, flophousefloozie. When I was a kid it was, yes, referred to as a "prank call."

[flophousefloozie]

Originally Posted by gmku

Here's a real live walking mistake. I was walking across the street, minding my business, going with the walk sign, in the crosswalk, when a big pickup turning into the street almost doesn't stop and about runs me over.

He puts on the brakes and yells at ME, the pedestrian! I yell back, "Hey, I'm a PEDESTRIAN, asshole!" but the chicken shit speeds off.

So down the block a bit as I go on walking, some guy who's apparently just parked and is walking across the street grins at me, shaking his head, and goes, "Wow. What was up with that dude?"

He looks fairly congenial, and fairly cool, long-hair in a pony tail, rather intellectual-looking, confident, in his late 20s, heading for an engineering college building. I'm thinking, I can joke a bit with this congenial fellow. He'll share my angst.

"Yeah, I don't know," I say congenially, chuckling a little. "You know, big boys and their trucks."

He chuckles and says, "Well, I can't say anything. I own a big truck," and points, and yeah, it's a big truck. And then I notice that yeah, he's kind of a stout guy.

"Oh, sorry," I stammer. "I didn't mean anything."

"It's okay," he says, not smilling as much now. "I usually just think when I'm walking and a big truck comes for me, I'm getting out of the way because it's going to kill me before I kill it."

Heh heh. (Me)

"Well, have a good day," he says, going on his way.

Christ, me and my big fucking mouth. Somebody help me extract foot.

Years ago, I worked at a grocery store, and they had me bag peoples groceries for a while.

One of the first shifts I worked, I was picking up a few bags of many for an elderly women, assuming she would need assistance. As I did so, she went for the bags too. Noticing how many there were, I was taken aback, and innocently asked her, "Oh, do you have enough hands there?"Of course, I then noticed that she was missing a hand.

[Crumb's Crunchy Delights]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

And why is that exactly?


http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:uC5K_oGAPFYJ:www.greatrivermedical. org/physicians/index.php%3FselectName%3DH+great+river+orthopaedic &hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

damn. i thought it was a mistake. i feel stupid now. this one is real

 

[atari 2600]

Oh damn, holy hell!

Fuck, flophousefloozie.

The sound of one hand clapping.

[gmku]

Yeah, it sort of was Larry David like. I even sounded like Larry David when I yelled at the guy, sort of raspy but loud and belligerent, "Hey, asshole..." and then as he sped off I gave him sort of a Larry David stare down and when he was safely enough down the road, flipped him the finger.

Now what would Hank Moody have done? Probably would have calmly just stopped, let the truck past, and stared stone-faced at the guy from behind dark glasses.

I was wearing dark glasses. And my black T-shirt and jeans. I should have just gone with the Hank Moody. I don't think I looked terribly dignified. And then even less so with the pony-tail-guy gaffe.

More Larry David when I get home--my wife is pissed because apparently I have been hiding from her the fact that I burned the carpet in the bedroom with the iron. I dropped it the other day, immediately picked it up, but it left just the hint of an iron-shaped "stain." And this happened because it was 5.30 in the morning and I was tired, but doing her a favor and ironing her clothes for work.

So now I'm in the dog house for "keeping this" from her.

"I forgot," I said. "I meant to tell you. It was an honest mistake. I don't go around dropping irons on the carpet every day."

"Uh huh, right. Leave me alone, I want nothing to do with you right now."

What if the truck HAD run me over? What then? Then she'd be sorry, all right, yes sir.

Jesus, what a day.

[gmku]

Originally Posted by flophousefloozie

Years ago, I worked at a grocery store, and they had me bag peoples groceries for a while.

One of the first shifts I worked, I was picking up a few bags of many for an elderly women, assuming she would need assistance. As I did so, she went for the bags too. Noticing how many there were, I was taken aback, and innocently asked her, "Oh, do you have enough hands there?"Of course, I then noticed that she was missing a hand.

OMG, as the kids say!

I would have been so embarrassed, I probably would have turned in my apron on the spot and walked out of the store forever.

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