I have almost given up on taking photos of English spelling errors… there are just too many. However, as an officially certified, card carrying grammar nazi with an extra spelling badge, this one just had to be preserved for… eh… prosperity.
I assume these guys sell normal hot dogs, I didn't order one to find out.
As Mr. Häck would say: The dumbest volunteer at 20 Minutes, a free Swiss newspaper (and worth every penny!), strikes again…
Now, what Amazon are offering is music without any Digital Restrictions, so without copy protection. And what, pray tell, does one call that? Of course: Copy-free music! Can we therefore assume that whoever wrote this doesn't use protection? I know, cheap joke, but it's before my 2nd morning coffee. You might well find that post edited later.
(Note for the Görmen speakers out there… it should be “Kopierschutzfrei”…)
If you feel inadequate about your hard drive size, a well-known Swiss (or German, for the pedants among us) electronics supermarket sells Terrabyte (sic) sized harddrives. Now… Terra (with two “r”s) usually refers to earth. So… is that a harddrive the size of the whole planet? Would be useful for Marvin the paranoid Android: “Here I am, harddrive the size of a planet…”
Of course, I couldn't leave this post without looking up where the prefix “tera” as in 1012 (or in this case 240) actually comes from. Here's what the second oracle told me:
Confirmed in 1960, it comes from the Greek τερασ, meaning monster.*
I therefore suggest we call it a Monsterbyte from now on!
What, no “Plaguettes”? Sounds… interesting. Cheerleaders for the Black Death or cholera, maybe? Or simply a French wine…
Anyway, if you're looking for a plague, they're the guys to go to.
Disclaimer: I have no idea about any products of any company mentioned in this post, not even the misspelled ones. So there. But Ms. Magenta's Cholera looks lovely!
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(Disclaimer: I have no idea who baked the disease. But thanks anyway.)
Good thing I was flying out of Dublin Airport on August 3rd… taking the bus would have been slightly confusing. However, I find it hard to believe that the letters “FCKNG” should appear anywhere randomly, especially preceded by a smilie ;). Who knows… some bored sign technician, maybe?
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Or a technician engaging in an abovementioned activity in insufficient distance to the keyboard?
Ehm. Maybe not.
That would account for the smiley, however…
I am constantly amazed at what wonders the Irish can do when they set their minds to it. Especially if they assault me with what must be higher dimensional mathematics at the breakfast table. Now… if they could pull the same trick off with Guinness? Please? Alternatively, I would recommend they take a short course in applied mathematics.
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Come on, that's obvious! For the average orange squash drinker, normal OJ just isn.t watery enough. Hence you want to add at least 750ml of water to the thing.
(Bleurgh, now I've disgusted myself. Sorry.)
Today's “Der Bund” mentions the National Riffle Association. Let's see… Wikipedia defines “Riffle” as
Riffle
A common shuffling technique is called a riffle, in which half of the deck is held in each hand with the thumbs inward, then cards are released by the thumbs so that they fall to the table intertwined. Many also lift the cards up after a riffle, forming what is called a bridge which puts the cards back into place.
This can also be done by placing the halves flat on the table with their rear corners touching, then lifting the back edges with the thumbs while pushing the halves together. While this method is a bit more difficult, it is often used in casinos because it minimizes the risk of exposing cards during the shuffle.
That's all nice and good, but what on earth could a society dedicated to shuffling decks of cards possibly have against regulating gun ownership? I do wonder…
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.oO (Ah, wouldn't the world be a better place…)
As I read the title of your post, I somehow imagined this club of people who refuse to lift their feet properly when walking.
Not the worthiest cause, but there are worse.
Obviously.
Advert of an unspecified Airline. I wonder what exactly the tours they offer involve. It's slightly disturbing that the image shows a camel, though…
Security leaflet on a Boeing MD-80. Hmmm…