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I really didn't know where to post this. It's not an Annoyance, per se, and I wouldn't know who, specifically, to Hey, Asshole! on the matter. It's not an abuse of the English language, because I don't know what language it is. And to post it in Depressing Stuff would be to dishonor real suffering and tragedy. Besides, it's about time we had a WTF thread, no?
An empty storefront in Manchester, VT, sports the cheerful heads up: “Coming Soon! Poñcé Gourmet – Coffee Bar and Fine Food”. Poñcé, accented just so. How on earth is one to pronounce that? PON-ye-SAY? (I'm guessing they were going for “poncey”?) So much to look forward to. I'm sure it will be “poncey” in the same way that a woman declaring herself “classy” is actually classy.
What the F***? A thread for parsing the incomprehensible
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Posted 19 May 2008 - 04:52 PM
Poñcé is a Spanish word meaning precious or affected.
“I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.”
"Perhaps there are two tea smoked ducks, and we ordered from the wrong part of the menu. Having everything in English is a bit confusing."- CH poster.
"Perhaps there are two tea smoked ducks, and we ordered from the wrong part of the menu. Having everything in English is a bit confusing."- CH poster.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 03:07 PM
QUOTE(g.johnson @ May 19 2008, 12:51 PM) 
It's how Wilfrid's beloved describes him.
Oh, belatedly caught up with this bon mot.
Elect-a-lujah
***Every Monday***At the Sign of the Pink Pig.
If the author could go around the place hitting random readers with a rubber hammer, the Pink Pig would still be worth a visit.
***Every Monday***At the Sign of the Pink Pig.
If the author could go around the place hitting random readers with a rubber hammer, the Pink Pig would still be worth a visit.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 03:13 PM
A magazine ad for Cottonelle toilet paper sports a full-page photo of a yellow Lab puppy spread-eagled on its back in a blanket of purple roses, with the tagline “Be Kind to Your Behind!”.
Are they recommending that I wipe my ass with a puppy?
Are they recommending that I wipe my ass with a puppy?
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 03:15 PM
QUOTE(GG Mora @ May 21 2008, 11:13 AM)
A magazine ad for Cottonelle toilet paper sports a full-page photo of a yellow Lab puppy spread-eagled on its back in a blanket of purple roses, with the tagline “Be Kind to Your Behind!”.
Are they recommending that I wipe my ass with a puppy?
Are they recommending that I wipe my ass with a puppy?
they are soft but not very absorbent. you'll need to use alot of puppies. brilliant marketing
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 03:16 PM
QUOTE(GG Mora @ May 21 2008, 11:13 AM)
Are they recommending that I wipe my ass with a puppy?
Or with purple roses?
“I used to be eye candy but now I’m more like eye pickle"
Neil Innes
“Your father is going deaf. I can’t hear a word he says!”
My mom
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Captain Hammer
Neil Innes
“Your father is going deaf. I can’t hear a word he says!”
My mom
“I hope to set an example, you know, for children and stuff."
Captain Hammer
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 04:09 PM
There are whole subway cars with that series of Cottonelle ads. What I like about them is the little curved cheeks at the lower right. Otherwise, they are pretty dumb.
What I find incomprehensible is how instigators here manage to make themselves out as victims and get other people punished when they are just as much at fault.
What I find incomprehensible is how instigators here manage to make themselves out as victims and get other people punished when they are just as much at fault.
"This place was the 4'33" of flavour." -- Adrian, September 18, 2011
yes sir... i get sad when i don't cook
-- Daniel, December 13, 2011
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
yes sir... i get sad when i don't cook
-- Daniel, December 13, 2011
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 04:26 PM
QUOTE(Suzanne F @ May 21 2008, 12:09 PM)
There are whole subway cars with that series of Cottonelle ads. What I like about them is the little curved cheeks at the lower right. Otherwise, they are pretty dumb.
What I find incomprehensible is how instigators here manage to make themselves out as victims and get other people punished when they are just as much at fault.
What I find incomprehensible is how instigators here manage to make themselves out as victims and get other people punished when they are just as much at fault.
Indeed there are. Read them all here.
“I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.”
"Perhaps there are two tea smoked ducks, and we ordered from the wrong part of the menu. Having everything in English is a bit confusing."- CH poster.
"Perhaps there are two tea smoked ducks, and we ordered from the wrong part of the menu. Having everything in English is a bit confusing."- CH poster.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 04:42 PM
i'm waiting for the ad that suggests folding it 5 ways and sticking it where the sun don't shine
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 08:26 PM
Downloaded "South Pacific" from iTunes. This is how one of the cuts from the album is titled:
C**k-Eyed Optimist
I find this pretty scary
C**k-Eyed Optimist
I find this pretty scary
curb your god
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. (Voltaire)
One is often told that it is very wrong to attack religion because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it. (Bertrand Russell)
Believing there is no god gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. (Penn Jillette)
CERES GALLERY
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. (Voltaire)
One is often told that it is very wrong to attack religion because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it. (Bertrand Russell)
Believing there is no god gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O, and all things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. (Penn Jillette)
CERES GALLERY
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 08:33 PM
Gangsta re-mix?
Elect-a-lujah
***Every Monday***At the Sign of the Pink Pig.
If the author could go around the place hitting random readers with a rubber hammer, the Pink Pig would still be worth a visit.
***Every Monday***At the Sign of the Pink Pig.
If the author could go around the place hitting random readers with a rubber hammer, the Pink Pig would still be worth a visit.
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Posted 21 May 2008 - 09:06 PM
QUOTE(Rose @ May 21 2008, 04:26 PM)
Downloaded "South Pacific" from iTunes. This is how one of the cuts from the album is titled:
C**k-Eyed Optimist
I find this pretty scary
C**k-Eyed Optimist
I find this pretty scary
iTunes has parental controls to filter content so children can't download explicit material. It's probably to prevent that song title from getting snagged in the filter, but feel free to extrapolate the downfall of society from it.
BlondieNY.com
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Posted 22 May 2008 - 01:16 AM
Here's Reba:
p4geFJgWjCM
Kelli O'Hara sings it so well.
p4geFJgWjCM
Kelli O'Hara sings it so well.
"It seems a positively Quixotic quest to defend food from being used as any kind of social signifier, as if it could avoid the fate of each other component of our everyday lives." -Wilfrid
