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Getting Propositioned

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Politics, You Must be Mistaken | No Comments »

Oddly, the usual deluge of election propaganda hasn’t materialized yet, and the election is less than a week away. While looking through the scanty haul, most of which is focused on a quartet of propositions on Indian gaming, Katie found an intriguing statement:

Why PORAC Supports Propositions 94, 95, 96 & 97

Wait… pubic services? Whoa! And here I thought gambling on tribal lands was hot. This could blow it away… or alternatively, screw everyone over.

Irritable Liquid?

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 Posted in Signs of the Times | 2 Comments »

Found on the side of an AM-PM convenience store today:

Sign on door: Irritable Liquid

That’s one cranky glass of water.

Or maybe Odo?

My best guess is that they were trying to say something like “inflammable,” decided it wouldn’t fit, and misused a thesaurus.

When Typos Attack!

Friday, April 7th, 2006 Posted in You Must be Mistaken | No Comments »

eWeek has an article about URL Tracer, a new tool from Microsoft to keep track of typo-squatting. At one point, the article refers to “typos-quatting.”

I’m sure it’ll get fixed soon, but it seems strangely appropriate.

Those sushi chefs are such cut-ups!

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005 Posted in You Must be Mistaken | 1 Comment »

Severing fresh sushi!

Well, technically, the fish is severed…