Spellcheck blunder

A work colleague shared this Microsoft Word spellcheck suggestion…

Clever!

Seen on Facebook:

Guess they don’t get many complaints

‘Snapped’ at a local restaurant:

Fun with road safety signs

Long-time blog reader, client, and good guy, J, shared these photos with me that he took while driving through South Australia on his way back to Perth, Western Australia.

It seems they’re part of a road safety campaign, though it’s a concern that ‘political correctness’ (a oxymoron if ever there was one!) has resulted in ‘rooster’ being substituted for ‘cock’ in the press releases.

Clever. To the point. And they get the message across to the target audience — young Aussie male country drivers. I love how they targeted their intended audience so well. Typically, these young guys don’t read newspapers or watch TV news etc., so traditional ads never really get to them. But a billboard on a country road that they’re likely to be speeding on? Priceless.

Update: Complaints about these signs rejected: http://www.news.com.au/national/state-government-rejects-complaints-about-offensive-road-safety-signs/story-fncynjr2-1226440721822

[Links last checked January 2012; thanks for sharing the photos, J]

Funny news headline

There are SO many pithy comments I could make about this headline, but I’ll refrain!

Over to you….

Honesty in job advertising

A job ad for a technical writer was recently forwarded to the Austechwriter mailing list. Normal stuff, except for a couple of lines in the list of requirements that made me smile!

Comma chameleon

Two of my favorite things — commas and chameleons!

Spotted on the internet (sorry, no source for this — if you know where it’s from, let me know so I can attribute it correctly).

The right tool for the job… or not!

In the realms of ‘Why on earth would anyone even think of doing that?” followed by ‘Someone must have done it to warrant the warning’, comes this that I saw on a website when I was searching for quicker way to defrost a freezer:

A gun? Really???

Classic menu typo

A client of mine travels the world training his clients in how to use certain geological modeling software. He ends up in some pretty out of the way places (mine sites are invariably in out of the way places). He emailed me his photo of this menu typo, with this comment:

There are unexpected colours hiding in the “Rainbow Roll” sushi from Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). It makes you wonder what exactly is in the “special sauce”!

While my colleagues braved the brave new world of African Japanese, I went with the less adventurous African Thai food instead…

The 'Rainbow Roll' takes on a new meaning...

Where’s an editor if you need one? An automated spell check wouldn’t pick up this typo, though it would pick up ‘musroom’. And an automated spell checker couldn’t tell you if the word is meant to be ‘crab’ or ‘carp’ — both would fit into the context.

[Thanks for the photo, J]

Excel was around before electricity!

How else can you explain this from the Excel 2007 recovery window? 1601? Really??