No Suck, Just a Truck

[Andara Bledin]

So, we were heading to our local shopping destination and there was a company-owned full sized truck ahead of us with lettering across the back window.

I found it incredibly amusing that for the want of a dash, his company name said something entirely different than he had intended.

I read as follows: Twenty Four Seven

I don't recall what the company actually did, just that instead of 24/7 as intended, their name parses out to 20/4/7, instead.

Looking through listings, I find that the vast majority of local companies are missing that crucial dash. >_>

On a slightly related note, I had seen another business-owned truck with the company name emblazoned upon it. Only, this time the name was split between the back window and the tail gate, which I thought was clever.

Or, rather, I would have thought it clever were the actual name ever painted on the back window. It took going around them to actually know what the name of the company was as the back window was conspicuously clear. I'm not sure whether it was due to the employees being unable to drive safely with the obstruction, or due to a replaced window, or merely never getting the final part done.

^-.-^

[Merriweather]

Amazing what difference the right punctuation can make. For some reason I have a panda stuck in my head now (if there's anyone who hasn't heard that joke, I'd be happy to tell it, but won't unless asked, cause I'm thinking everyone has by now).

[Jay 2K Winger]

Amazing what difference the right punctuation can make. For some reason I have a panda stuck in my head now (if there's anyone who hasn't heard that joke, I'd be happy to tell it, but won't unless asked, cause I'm thinking everyone has by now).

"Eats, shoots and leaves." That means he'll come in, eat your food, shoot you, and then leave.

"Eats shoots and leaves." That describes what he eats, i.e. leaves and shoots.

It's like that superfluous apostrophe you see showing up where it shouldn't.

[Merriweather]

"Eats, shoots and leaves." That means he'll come in, eat your food, shoot you, and then leave.

"Eats shoots and leaves." That describes what he eats, i.e. leaves and shoots.

It's like that superfluous apostrophe you see showing up where it shouldn't.

Yep. There's a cute long joke, the "a panda walks into a bar" type of thing to go alone with it

[Andara Bledin]

Yep. There's a cute long joke, the "a panda walks into a bar" type of thing to go alone with it

There's a naughty variant about how a koala "eats bushes and leaves." That one takes place in an adult establishment that isn't a bar.

^-.-^

[wolfie]

Don't forget the Aussie variant where a woman describes her boyfriend as a "wombat", as in "eats roots and leaves".

[Jay 2K Winger]

Don't forget the Aussie variant where a woman describes her boyfriend as a "wombat", as in "eats roots and leaves".

You mean "eats, roots and leaves" right? (Gotta remember that comma!)

[Shalom]

I am reminded of an ancient joke (reprinted in one of Bennett Cerf's compilations from the '40s, if I remember right) where they painted on the back of a beer wagon:

BUY OUR
FINE BEER
THERE IS NO
BEER AS GOOD

Then someone opened the right-hand door.

[Skarredmind]

I helped my uncle jack off a horse.

I helped my uncle jack, off a horse.

Let's eat grandma!

Let's eat, grandma!

LOL punctuation is pretty important.

This reminds me of a local trash company where they seem to have mistaken the word "refuse" with "refuge."

Instead of hauling trash away and disposing of it... they collect your garbage and keep it nice and safe somewhere.

[Chromatix]

It is also important to consider the lengths of vowel and consonant sounds in Finnish. (There's a rhythm to the language that you pick up after a while.)

Not paying attention can turn jää tee (iced tea) into jäte (rubbish).

[wolfie]

Reminds me of an old one. The chairman of the Board of Education is touring a school, and is criticizing a teacher for teaching the students about punctuation, saying it's a waste of time.

Teacher says: "Johnny, come to the blackboard and write 'The chairman of the Board of Education says the teacher is wasting the students' time.'"

Johnny does this.

Teacher says: "Now put a comma after 'Education' and another after 'teacher'."

[KatherineB]

There's also the one about:

Woman without her man is nothing.

Two options here:

Woman: without her, man is nothing

Woman, without her man, is nothing

[Kristev]

And now the news:

1) The teacher is right and

2) Woman doesn't need him! (But does he need her? No, just some self-control.)