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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2020, 07:48:05 AM »
Oh dear indeed!

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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2020, 09:47:43 AM »
Newspaper don't employ maths experts

But it is the Mirror

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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2020, 11:23:44 AM »
I've saved a few of these over the years...

This is from Don Beni's (an Italian restaurant / pizza place in Wokingham - now closed) about 2012



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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2020, 02:34:47 PM »
My favourite was the Travellers who set up their 'Base Camp' on a Croydon Industrial Estate selling Xmas Trees one winter.

They painted these immortal words on a massive board to attract Customers:

'Best Quailty Xmas Trees'
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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2020, 05:52:43 PM »
Newspaper don't employ maths experts
But it is the Mirror
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I think Diane Abbott is on the editorial team?
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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2020, 11:44:36 PM »
Newspaper don't employ maths experts
But it is the Mirror
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I think Diane Abbott is on the editorial team?

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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2020, 09:21:02 AM »
What's wrong with Best Quality Christmas Trees?  Am I missing something?
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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2020, 09:23:26 AM »
Look closely at the spelling of quality Mike

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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2020, 09:52:48 AM »
Oh yes.
Where's that 10mm socket got to?

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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2020, 09:57:47 AM »
I was on a job website and I had to do an online assessment.   I got all of them correct, except the proof reading one.  I took a screenshot of it and still couldn't find the fault.  My Mrs eventually spotted it after the fourth reading.
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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2020, 11:17:57 AM »
Took me four too.


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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2020, 11:51:29 AM »
Here's another from the same place but 18 months later. It seems the Xmas(s) trainee didn't get the push after all!

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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2020, 12:29:04 PM »
Where I once worked had a large sign for many years that read
                 ILLEGALY PARKED CARS WIIL BE REMOVED WITH A FORKLIFT
No one ever noticed it.
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Re: Sometimes I wonder where these people get their copywriters/editors…
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2020, 01:42:13 PM »
Took me two to get the double the

 

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