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Sunday Stuff
Jun. 29th, 2003 09:37 pmWe shipped a toy magnifier last week. I had to read it more than once to realize it was a magnifier that was a toy, and not a device to magnify toys. ^_^
We also shipped "colossal shrimp". Okay everyone knows the joke about jumbo shrimp being an oxymoron... but colossal shrimp? Anything with the word "colossal" attached to it should not fit in my mouth.
You know the world has changed when you overhear truck drivers discussing the merits of various local golf courses, or which software they're using to figure their taxes with. Two weeks ago I saw a truck driver sitting at one of the picnic tables at one end of our dock (the "lunch room"). He was working away at his laptop computer while another driver looked over his shoulder. I swear, Microsoft or IBM couldn't have designed a better commercial image.
While waiting for my meal at Arby's I glanced at one of their advertisements -- a hanging sign. For only 60 cents more, I can get my drink in a "genuine authentic Coca-Cola cup". These are cheap colored plastic cups with the Coca-Cola logo -- it never actually occured to me that they might be counterfeit cups. But what do I know?
Speaking of annoying commercials (of which there are legions), let's do as the Volvo commercial suggests and think about their slogan for a moment: Cars are driven by people. Wow! Talk about insight! You can see for yourself that the ad execs at this company have been paying attention! Although, really, I might actually enjoy buying a car from the company who dares to sport the slogan Cars are driven by mutant alien beast thingies from the Tenth Dimension. I mean, at least I'd know they were a little more creative in their thinking.
And I wanted to say something else. It seems to me that claiming that you are going to "synchronize" the music of your radio station to a Fourth of July fireworks display is a real abuse of the work "synchronize". This word means "To occur at the same time; be simultaneous" or "To operate in unison", but that only applies to a music-set-to-fireworks display in the most general terms, yes? I mean, yes, there's fireworks going off and music playing, so in that sense they're happening at the same time, but does that mean they're operating in perfect, or at least semi-perfect, unison? It's not exactly easy to get pop tunes and explosions to work together in perfect harmony. I'd guess that Dark Size of the Moon synchs up with Wizard of Oz much better myself. ^_^
We also shipped "colossal shrimp". Okay everyone knows the joke about jumbo shrimp being an oxymoron... but colossal shrimp? Anything with the word "colossal" attached to it should not fit in my mouth.
You know the world has changed when you overhear truck drivers discussing the merits of various local golf courses, or which software they're using to figure their taxes with. Two weeks ago I saw a truck driver sitting at one of the picnic tables at one end of our dock (the "lunch room"). He was working away at his laptop computer while another driver looked over his shoulder. I swear, Microsoft or IBM couldn't have designed a better commercial image.
While waiting for my meal at Arby's I glanced at one of their advertisements -- a hanging sign. For only 60 cents more, I can get my drink in a "genuine authentic Coca-Cola cup". These are cheap colored plastic cups with the Coca-Cola logo -- it never actually occured to me that they might be counterfeit cups. But what do I know?
Speaking of annoying commercials (of which there are legions), let's do as the Volvo commercial suggests and think about their slogan for a moment: Cars are driven by people. Wow! Talk about insight! You can see for yourself that the ad execs at this company have been paying attention! Although, really, I might actually enjoy buying a car from the company who dares to sport the slogan Cars are driven by mutant alien beast thingies from the Tenth Dimension. I mean, at least I'd know they were a little more creative in their thinking.
And I wanted to say something else. It seems to me that claiming that you are going to "synchronize" the music of your radio station to a Fourth of July fireworks display is a real abuse of the work "synchronize". This word means "To occur at the same time; be simultaneous" or "To operate in unison", but that only applies to a music-set-to-fireworks display in the most general terms, yes? I mean, yes, there's fireworks going off and music playing, so in that sense they're happening at the same time, but does that mean they're operating in perfect, or at least semi-perfect, unison? It's not exactly easy to get pop tunes and explosions to work together in perfect harmony. I'd guess that Dark Size of the Moon synchs up with Wizard of Oz much better myself. ^_^
