Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for February 05, 2024

Companies really do need to think carefully about their slogans (as well as spelling etc..) Years ago the huge insurance company I worked for sponsored the Royal Shakespeare Company for a year. As a result they commissioned loads of advertising posters mentioning this, and using lines from Shakespeare plays to suggest how forward looking they were. Unfortunately their favourite one was a line from Macbeth – and because the people who approved it had obviously not read the play and did not know the context of the line, it gave out quite the wrong impression: ‘tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow…’ because the next line is ‘creeps in this petty pace from day to day’. Which was a pretty accurate way to sum up working for them…

Like the sign in Canada, and no I’m NOT making this up “Due to unforeseen circumcisions…”

I worked at a smallish newspaper many years ago. Our favourite comment, when the bosses were not around, was: “If it’s news … it’s news to us!”

oh com on…no one wood make that many speling erors

When reading, our minds tend to correct mistakes. When I worked in publishing we would read the text upside down so that we would see each word separately and not be distracted by the meaning.

I worked for a company that had hundreds of boomerangs made for a convention advertising “Return to Excellance.” The COO was angry, but it was his assistant/girlfriend that approved the proof. More wasted marketing dollars.

I think this one is for all the commenters that point out typos.

Sal, they misspelled WE, it should be WEE.

“THIMK!”

You can’t see what’s wrong because 1) you’re dyslexic or b) you can’t spell.

“Prefection”? Is that another word for inoculation?

It’s not as bad as one as a Pizza Hut closure sign that said Closed For Unforeseen Circumcisions (Yikes)

@John Zakour I just finished reading “Plutonium Blonde”. I enjoyed it very much. I wish there was a sequel.

Blame it on autocorrect.

The old vacuum cleaner slogan “Nothing sucks like an Electrolux”

it’s always comforting to arrive at an inn here in japan and see a sign out front that says a worm welcome… ☺

I’m surprised that the “We” wasn’t spelled “Oui”