Category Archives: You Must be Mistaken

Back to Basics???

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Kelson

Toaster labeled 'Back to Basics' with 5,000 buttons and an extra...something.

You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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Maybe “Sent from my iPhone/Droid/whatever” is worth including…as a spelling disclaimer. (Sent from my G2)

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Ape Tomatoes

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Kelson

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Free…Raffie?

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Kelson

I’ve never understood why people will use a lower-case L in the middle of an otherwise all-caps phrase. It’s the only lower-case letter that happens to look exactly like another letter entirely when mixed with capitals.

Free raffie? for a waik-in tub?

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Goin’ On a Typo Hunt

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Kelson

NPR has an article on The Great Typo Hunt: Two friends cross the country with a Sharpie pen, correcting grammatical and spelling errors in road and shop signs. And there’s a book.

I may need this.

When I was in college in the mid-1990s, I kept a “Bent Offerings” newspaper cartoon on my bulletin board. One person was scrawling “I before E…” on a wall. Another was correcting a menu, muttering, “It’s Brussels Sprouts, not Brussel Sprouts!”. A third was examining someone’s T-shirt, disapprovingly asking, “Is that how they taught you to use an apostrophe?” The strip was captioned, “Roving Gangs of Rogue Proofreaders.”

The appeal hasn’t stopped. You may have noticed I have two categories on this blog devoted to weird/funny signs and mistakes in signs.

Yeah, this sounds like a good bet.

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Your MOM was Photoshopped!

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Kelson

Door: This Is Not A Door. So, remember this photo of a door labeled “This is not a door?” Last year, someone else sent a picture of the same door to FAIL Blog. Then a week ago, someone submitted mine to Friends of Irony, where Katie spotted it a few days later.

Here’s where things get interesting.

On both sites, people were absolutely convinced that it was “obviously” photoshopped.

*headdesk*

No, it’s real. It’s in a small business complex at the corner of Newport Ave. and Irvine Blvd. in Tustin, California. You can go there and look if you want. And of course there are the two photos taken from different angles.

The obvious conclusion is that people don’t really know how to tell whether a photo has been manipulated. At least on FAIL Blog, some of the doubters had reasons, even though they amounted to not understanding perspective.

I was tempted to post a comment linking to this XKCD strip (My hobby: insisting that real-life objects are photoshopped), but settled for requesting a photo credit instead.

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For Hanging Dedicates

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Kelson

Found on a collapsible coat rack:

Perfect for laundry, ironing, hanging dedicates to dry...

Hanging Dedicates? Wow, I knew Asha’man training was tough, but I thought General Cauthon was the only one who had to go through that…

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Quick, Roll a D16!

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Kelson

Or maybe “tumble” would be more appropriate…

Needless to say, the dryer was out of order. I mean, seriously, when was the last time you saw a 16-sided die?

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Silly Comment Spammer…

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Kelson

Yesterday I got a strange comment that I thought looked a bit spammy. It was one of those sneaky comments that pretends it’s reporting a problem on your site. The layout looks off in Chrome, or is broken in Firefox, etc. Except, of course, when you look at it in that browser, it’s just fine.

This one claimed that they’d gotten an alert on their firewall when hitting the blog, and could it be related to one of your ads?

Unlikely given how few ads I use, but possible, since I had a third-party poll, some Amazon links, and a banner for Mozilla Plugin Check. Still, the author’s website looked pretty spammy, once I pulled out the extra w, so I put it back in moderation–

Wait, what was that about an extra w?

Well, they’d linked to wwww.[REDACTED].com. Kind of amusing, but I didn’t think anything of it until I had the chance to look for other sites with similar comments…and found that they all pointed to the broken site!

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Not A Door?

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Kelson


This Is Not A Door, originally uploaded by Kelson.

Let me guess: Magritte designed this building.

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