September 2008
Selling it
Watch your language
Speaking of language foibles, there are a couple in the ad for this book (though not in the book itself): It’s pronounced lan-yap, and “bouillon” has two o’s.
Speaking of language foibles, there are a couple in the ad for this book (though not in the book itself): It’s pronounced lan-yap, and “bouillon” has two o’s.
Sleepless near Seattle
A reader snapped this amusing pair of signs from his boat in an Everett, Wash., marina.
A reader snapped this amusing pair of signs from his boat in an Everett, Wash., marina.
A mortgage for mice?
Countrywide has been under scrutiny lately for making questionable home loans, so an Illinois reader was a bit surprised to find that the company was eager to refinance his post office box. “I don’t even own my post office box,” he writes. “I must say, though, my PO box is really cozy, with silver metallic and black trim.”
Countrywide has been under scrutiny lately for making questionable home loans, so an Illinois reader was a bit surprised to find that the company was eager to refinance his post office box. “I don’t even own my post office box,” he writes. “I must say, though, my PO box is really cozy, with silver metallic and black trim.”
When ya gotta go . . .
Lost in translation
Good. No one likes a pessimistic, boastful confection.
Good. No one likes a pessimistic, boastful confection.
Just call them pancakes
You know what creeps are—they’re those thin, doughy things that lurk around shredded meats.
You know what creeps are—they’re those thin, doughy things that lurk around shredded meats.
Ooey-gooey
We asked Greenbrier International, distributor of this made-in-China product, why anyone would heed the message on the flip side of the pack, but no one got back to us.
We asked Greenbrier International, distributor of this made-in-China product, why anyone would heed the message on the flip side of the pack, but no one got back to us.
