Thursday, September 18, 2008

Ambiguous Ad

On my way in to work this morning I noticed this ad in the bus: "Working in healthcare and love technology?" It then went on to give information about a local community college's medical informatics program. For 15 seconds I was wondering what "love technology" is a euphemism for... Then I saw what the writer really intended.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think there's an episode where Mr. Furley overhears Jack and Crissy talking about love technology. After about 15 minutes, he figures out what they were really talking about. Just another case of art imitating real life.

Anonymous said...

The menu item at a local pizza joint read "gluten free pizza". I thought, why are the pizza's free just because they're full of gluten. Then I figured out what the restaurant intended.

Anonymous said...

Dear Anonymous,

Are you going to post what the restaurant was really intending?

A dude from Seattle ordered pizza delivery. The Pizza guy, wanting to do a good job with the pizza delivery, asked if he should cut it in six or twelve pieces. the dude responded, ”Six, please. I could never eat twelve pieces.”

Anonymous said...

Thank you for pointing out the oversight in my previous posting. The restaurant actually intended to describe a pizza free of gluten, or more accurately "sans glutens". I was acutally more baffled by their offer for "extra sauce" at a cost of $2. It occured to me that I could not adequately analyze whether $2 was a good value for "extra" sauce without first establishing a marinara baseline quantity against which the added sauce could be measured against. I mentioned this to the server, but he looked at me like I was crazy. I decided not to began the debate as to whether or not their cheesy bread would be better referred to as "cheesier" or "cheesiest".

--Anonymous

Anonymous said...

Why is there an ADA wheelchair icon next to the Word Verfication box?

Anonymous said...

Because clicking the button reads the letters aloud. Apparently wheelchairs is the current solution for those with eyesight issues.