No Such Thing as Bad Publicity - Chapter 24
It appears that they are specialists in only one wall – if this wall is already built, not a lot of comfort for a new customer.
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No Such Thing as Bad Publicity - Chapter 24 They may well build perfect pillars but I am not sure I would trust their spelling enough to ask them to engrave it. It appears that they are specialists in only one wall – if this wall is already built, not a lot of comfort for a new customer.
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I was in Durrus on Tuesday and smiled when standing by the Sheep’s Head Bar.
So simple – great value in terms of smiles/euro Baa to you too. I used to go for a haircut.
For some time, I have realised that reseeding is a word used for grass and receding is the word that applies to my head – thus rendering the scissors useless, replaced by a couple of minutes with a razor. Head shave is my present and my future. Last week, as well as my head shave, I also spotted a new variation on the alternatives for Coburg Street. Maybe it is a reminder to self as to how to differentiate between Earth and Live wires.
Maybe there is some Spanish blood in El Ectrical. Maybe it was deliberate to promote discussion, or even for inclusion here. Or maybe the proof-reader didn’t do a perfect job.
I have long since realised that I am rarely in the majority. I have become used to that and am happy with my positions and opinions – most of the time. I am not sure if I am in a similar minority grouping when it comes to this marketing logo. I showed it to neighbours and they laughed heartily, finding it very amusing. I did not have a similar reaction. I suspect that I will not be availing of the advertised services. As a husband who does try to fix what I think I might be able to fix, I do not take too well to being the butt of a joke when I realise the repair is beyond my capabilities and I need to call in someone who does this for a living. But that may just be me…… In Ennis Shopping Centre at the weekend, I stopped at the sign outside the Key Cutter’s shop. It is odd that ‘T’ and ‘C’ were placed in the correct order in ‘PATCHING’ but not in the words over and under. If I needed engraving done, I think that I would call in person and hand over the wording rather than risk telephoning in the text – especially if it included a’C’ after a ‘T’. I remember a lecturer, many years ago, commenting when spelling a word aloud, ‘m’ as in ‘mnemonics’. Thirty years later, it still floats about my grey matter. I would often place words such a ‘pneumonic’ and ‘psalm’ in a similar grouping but have not yet created an alphabet of silent first letters. This week in Merchants Quay Shopping Centre, I was reminded as to another candidate for the ‘p’ entry in the dictionary. If I were in need of treatment for psoriasis, I think I would be a bit more confident of a successful outcome if the practitioner actually used the same spelling as I did. Maybe that is just me. I was in Dublin earlier today.
I spotted this on Camden Row – off Camden Street – when out and about for a short search and photo mission. Recruit Ireland do not appear to have an office in this area so this could well be marketing by graffiti – there is quite a bit of wall art in the general area. I have seen wall art on a company’s own premises advertising their products. I think that this is the first time that I have seen ‘Graffiti Marketing’. I now know a bit about Clean Graffiti; Reverse Graffiti; Street Art Advertising; and, Corporate Graffiti – I knew nothing before this. Rabbit Hole Promotions appear to have done quite a number of installations. I have done quite a few blog posts regarding missing apostrophes.
For a change, I found an apostrophe where it had no right to be…. Uniform standards for the Certification of Food Products as Organic, I understand, was introduced in U.S. only in 1990 and the following year in the EU. Fairtrade was launched in 1988 and standard certification was introduced in 2009. For the purpose of this blog post, the web has provided me with more knowledge on the subjects than I had known before. They both are titles that I had assumed the standard without actually knowing what it means – in exact detail as to standards. So before the adoption and implementation of uniform standards, any company could claim to be ‘organic’ by their standard which might differ from another – and if their standard differed from mine as a consumer, that was just a matter lost in translation. It appears that ‘ethically sourced’ is not yet certified and is, somewhat, at the discretion of the company. When I saw this sign in the English Market earlier today, I thought that there were two possibilities. Maybe the chocolate is not ethnically sourced but there was a desire to get aboard the ‘ethically sourced bandwagon’ and so a deliberate decision was made to use the word ‘ethically’ rather than ‘ethnically’. Many will not spot the odd word. Most of those who do will assume a typo. But having read of lack of standardisation regarding ‘ethically sourced’, I do not think it is a deliberate typo – just a normal typo. p.s. I like the ‘Love & Laughter’
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