Ever notice how it's the little things in life that amuse us so much? More to the point, ever notice how it's the silly little idiocies in life that amuse us more than anything else? Well, this is not as much ''the little blog that could'' as it is ''the blog that enjoys going up the down escalator in your local mall.'' Will it have anything of real importance? No, probably not. But enjoy the ride never the less!

 


Ah, Head Office. You make me laugh in a special kind of way--the kind that usually involves my forehead eventually crashing onto our cash counter as my rueful guffaws taper off into a rueful groan.

The company's been in the game now for 20 years. (How it's survived sometimes can only attest to either a glitch in natural selection, or proof that God has a schadenfraude sense of humour.) To celebrate this momentous event, they had a special promotional sale for all of our stores: everything was an extra 20% off.

The brand new, highly professional, ultra-swanky ceiling banners and sign toppers we had advertizing this glorious occasion thusly proclaimed:





So...how many times should you be seeing the letter 'n' in 'additional' again? Yeah: oops. Quite frankly, I'm amazed this made it all the way into our stores without anyone at either the printers or Head Office picking up on this. Hell, I'm chagrined to say the banners were up for a week in our store before I suddenly performed a double-take on that word. (But in my defence, I was expecting someone in the higher echelons to, you know, proofread the things they were sending our way.)

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some of the new Avatar episodes to geek over, and season 1 of Heroes to become addicted to. (Damn you, Kevin!) But before we go, let me deal grievous injury to the hearts and minds of all you Avatar fans out there reading this. When Mel asked me to find a terrible, horrible, no good very bad fic to read aloud/mock for her (she has peculiar bedtime reading preferences, what can I say?), I stumbled drunkenly along through ff.net and crashed headlong into a so absolutely not safe for work story. The result of which has culminated in more than a mere mockable story. This is epic. This is brilliantly ridiculous.

This! Is! Cock-Bending!!!

No, really, I'm serious.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3719839/1/A_Bender_of_Her_Talents

(On the plus side, this whole thing works great for reading if you narrate it sounding like either Dame Edna, or a really exasperated Basil Fawlty.)

Enjoy...

Labels: cock-bending, head office spellchecking for teh fail

posted by Phillip at 8:38 AM