The English Langauge Howlers Made By Sheiky's Colleagues: An Occasional Series

[SheikYerbouti]

Following on from one of my colleagues who couldn't be more "persific" with his copy instructions, the colleague who was "annoid" by one of her client and the colleague who holds the account for "Grovenar Casino's", we have the following instructions from a sales person

"FOR THERE ADD, CAN YOU DO A RED, GREEN AND WHITE BOARDER PICTURE OF LEANING TOWER OF PIZZA PLEASE AS THEY HAVE THIS ON THERE' MENUS."

I have copied and pasted it from the work database.

Where do I start?

I have been PMSL about "The leaning tower of pizza" all morning [puerile]

These people should know better.

[Uriel]

arf!

[flatmouse]

Obviously they did not benefit from a schooling quite to the standard of yours!

Bongos anyone??

[Tutter]

i once had a customer (he was a business owner, i was his banker) who tried to rally his troops by putting up a sign that read

"if you can't do it excellantly, don't do it at all"

[Tutter]

ps i'm sure yours is a typo, not an error

[catinthehat]

(SHEIK - RUN YOUR EMERGENCY SPELL CHECKER ON YOUR TITLE MATEY, THE PEDANTS WILL BE ONTO YOU LIKE A HERD OF SHARKS)

[catinthehat]

[SheikYerbouti]

Lol flatmouse - were you taught by Mrs. Longstaff? She would have had a fit!

lol at "excellantly"

I can forgive others in other professions, but we work in publishing. Spelling correctly is our job, ffs

[catinthehat]

[SheikYerbouti]

yy, language. That's my typing, sadly

I am not paid to type though, I am paid to SPELL. As are my dozy workmates

[Katisha]

So what is the collective noun for sharks?

[SheikYerbouti]

I always fuck up something on pedantry threads.

[catinthehat]

I was hoping someone would come up with one, haven't a clue.

[SheikYerbouti]

Isn't it a shiver of sharks?

[Cappuccino]

I once wrote a letter to a pedantic boyfriend bemoaning my friend's "appauling spelling"

he did point it out

he was more pedant than gentleman

[Cappuccino]

I heard someone on the radio the other day saying "that comment really hit the head on the nail"

[catinthehat]

Sounds plausible!
(I would like it to be a pathos of sharks, but that is because I used to read Viz.)

[Twiglett]

holy shit

[Word]

ROFL. I have only 3 mins to MN today - you haven't disappointed me with this, Sheiky.

[flatmouse]

Never taught by her, but she was my form teacher in 6th form. We didn't get on.

She tried to persuade my parents NOT to allow me to go on tour of USA with orchestra over Feb half term (meant missing maybe 2 days of school) as in her mind i wasn't working hard enough for my A levels.

My parents let me go. She was perfectly correct i wasn't working hard enough (and still didn't on my return). But seriously, did she imagine that banning me from the tour would help??

[moondog]

lol
As aside, dd printed off Fimbles song about Santa on CBeebies website.
It refers to 'soot on there nose' and 'more toy's'.

Have of course written to moan.

[Cappuccino]

are you going to do a leaning tower of pizza?

please share the artwork

[WendyWeber]

DH forwarded me this, sent round by the receptionist:

"If your registration is either XXX OR YYY please could you move it as it is blocking and also you was parked there yesterday and got told to move."

(It is all spelled correctly though...)

Sheik, I love it that they have the Leaning Tower of Pizza on their menus

(As my no-shit-Sherlock DD1 pointed out when she saw it this summer, "if it wasn't leaning it wouldn't be famous, it would just be another tower" - & the restuarants could onlyhave Tower of Pizza)

[WendyWeber]

Oh dear, I spelt restaurants wrong

Anyway how many layers in a Tower of Pizza & what flavours?