Be real instead of being this.

for Six Word Saturday

I’d like to buy an “ed!”

Call me persnickety, but not only does “butter popcorn” sounds excessively greasy, but how on earth do you get it to pop? Tack on an “ed” and you’re looking at at my favorite snack (although I prefer homemade and not too much butter.)

Language abuse…It’s a sign.

I’m writing this on Monday afternoon with chicken stock simmering on the stove, something to combat the cold outside.  I exercised this morning, both on the treadmill and on the weight machines, but now I’m going to exercise my laughing muscles.  You’re welcome to give yours a workout as well.

As usual, at least so far, all examples are from Richard Lederer’s manual on how misuse of the English language can make us laugh, Anguished English.  Have any of you picked up a copy either at the library or bookstore since you started reading the Language Abuse posts?  I hope at least a few of you have enjoyed them enough to do so.  But now, without further ado or even much ado about nothing, let’s take a look at signs that might give a rather different impression to the reader than was expected by the creator of the sign.

In a New York restaurant:  Customers who consider our waitresses uncivil ought to see the manager.

Sometimes you really need two signs

You do?

COB Photo Challenge 2016, Week 37…opst!

Opst?  In the oddball challenge, that might mean “stop.”  🙂  Cee, welcome back from your time off.  I hope you’re rested and refreshed and I hope everyone stopping by has a wonderful weekend.

I forgot there’s no Photo Challenge this week (small heart attack here), so here’s my oddball entry today instead of Saturday.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame…Memorex memories

This week’s Photo Challenge theme is “Frame.”  (Have to say that the song “Fame” is now stuck in my head.)  I’m going outside the box (another frame?) a bit  (but the bars are framing it) to share a photo that brought a huge smile to my face as well as a lot of memories when I spotted it in a window in Plombières-les-Bains, France in July.  Took me back to my college days, when my best friend, Al, made me cassette after cassette of favorite songs, probably on Memorex.  “Smoke on the Water”, anyone?