Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Cold Beer, Cider, Vinyl, strong coffee. Of course I should not laugh at someone until I can do better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Marshal, I believe what they are serving is the unsaturated hydrocarbon radical -CH=CH2, which is derived from ethylene by the removal of a hydrogen atom. When served piping hot can be eerily delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Perhaps they play records? Or someone seriously misspelled Vino. EDIT: Hahaha...I misspelled "misspelled" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 I had a thought that if I went in and pointed out the error, the owner would say something like, “When I had ‘WINE’ nobody came in, but now I get twenty or thirty students come in every day “ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Angus McPherson Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 17 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: I had a thought that if I went in and pointed out the error, the owner would say something like, “When I had ‘WINE’ nobody came in, but now I get twenty or thirty students come in every day “ Years ago we had a guy around here, Steve "Don't be confused" Miserany, who owned some appliance stores. He ran some of the worst, silliest, most amatuerish ads you could ever hope to see on tv with him rollerskating around his store. The kind of ads they make fun of in cheesy movies. He was invited to talk to a college class (psychology?) one day, and he said people would regularly come into his store to complain about the ads. When they did he'd end up selling them a dishwasher. Stupid like a fox. Actually, I've heard similar stories about all the memes with misspelled words and bad punctuation. The responses from people correcting them helps to let them know how many people are actually seeing them. Angus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 There are roads in New Hampshire that are known for their antique stores. A friend called on and asked if he had old tools. Yes. Friend went and looked. Absurd prices. The guy said “if I lowered the price and sold them, I’d have to say no. As it is more than half the people buy something anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 An antique shopper went into a local store and immediately fell in love with the small crockery bowl filled with very expensive antique marbles that the owner kept by his cash register. The shopper tried every trick he could think of before he just asked the dealer to sell him the bowl. I wouldn't have any thing to hold my marbles if I sold my bowl. The dickering continued until the dealer finally relented and sold the bowl to a very happy customer. After the customer was well out of sight the dealer went into the back room to a large crate labeled pet supplies. He got another rabbit waterer out of the crate, put it beside his cash register and put his marble back in their bowl. True story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 It's a hipster joint in Indiana called "Square Cat Vinyl". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 Used to be a drug store in my hometown, Low Cost Drugs, and the owner was in Lions with my Dad, who was the tail twister. Dad used to fine Stone almost every week for the errors in his ads, but the funniest was an ad for eight various colored polystyrene bowels, perfect for your kitchen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share Posted January 31, 2019 I did some work for my company at the Eugene Register Guard in Oregon when they were computerizing. They had some infamous typos on a bulletin board. One was from a “proof to customer “ ad (means the customer had approved all of the ad). This part was for DIAL’s “around the clock protection.” The ad was missing a critical ”l” and had been cited in Playboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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