29 Jun
2009
29 Jun
'09
2:08 p.m.
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Marvin Johnston wrote:
Anyone remember the eBay marketing promotion, "Do It eBay"? I still love it
... Do It eBay, short for DIE!
Some years ago a shoe company came out with a shoe they named "The
Incubus". Said shoes were in the stores before management realized what
an incubus is. Now for something more modern, have any of you noticed the
rash of suggestive fast food adverts?
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> Happens more often than you'd think. ?Long
ago, a friend decided to
> call his company "Tripas" (a variant spelling of "Tri-pass").
?After
> the corporate name had been registered, the janitorial crew informed
> him that they thought it was funny--apparently it's Spanish ?for
> entriails ?(tripe).
Up here in Canada, the Reform party briefly renamed itself the
"Conservative Reform Alliance" Party: CRAP
That lasted all of two days, IIRC.