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Cooking on campus

Posted in Funnyon Dec 8, 2011

I saw this from a BYU Police Beat:

Oct. 4 – A woman was reported grilling chicken in the library. She said it was for a project requiring students to break a social norm.

I have to say, that is a little better than the time that I baked bread in the Computer Science T.A. offices in the basement of the Talmage building. I had everything measured out in a bread maker. Brought it all in and plugged in the bread maker, and had bread a couple of hours later.

Google+ Pages. Singular or plural?

Posted in Funnyon Nov 7, 2011

Dear Google+,

I went to create a page at Google+ Pages and I saw this notice:

I may be a computer geek, but I also appreciate correct grammar, and I’m seeing some inconsistencies in text of the popup notice.

Since the noun “pages” is plural, I would expect it to be used with a plural form of the verb: “are.” Instead, I’m seeing “pages is not” which is certainly incorrect. But I am able to explain it away because you could read it as, “The product offering, Google+ Pages, is not ready for everyone.” In this case, it might make sense to keep the verb in the singular form.

But wait! If you read the explanation text, Google suddenly refers to pages as “them,” which is certainly plural.

So what is it, Google? Is your Google+ Pages offering not ready? Or are you still releasing them to everyone?

Help police! I can’t find my remote!

Posted in Funnyon Aug 16, 2011

I’ve more than once posted funny police business.  Here is a story from here in Northern Colorado where a woman called 911 because she thought someone stole her TV remote control.  From the article:

It happened on July 27, when the woman – who doesn’t want to be identified – told police she thought she’d been burglarized. The missing item? Just one: her remote control.

Read the article.

Nice news content

Posted in Funnyon Jun 12, 2011

Either the FBI redacted this article, or someone didn’t write it well.

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Bean sprouts

Posted in Funnyon May 31, 2011

The other day we were making some stir fry, and I really wanted some bean sprouts in it.  I went to the store, and I bought this (notice the “Quality Guaranteed” notice under the Kroger logo):

When I got home and opened up the can, I found this (repackaged into a zip lock bag for photography):

I think what happened is they packaged their canned stir fry mix with a bean sprouts label.

So today I called the customer hotline 800 number on the back of the can.  I pressed ’4′ or whatever it was to talk with a Kroger representative about quality problems, and I waited on hold for nearly 20 minutes.  Being on hold for 20 minutes while representatives help other customers was a little alarming–how many product quality problems does Kroger have? Finally after talking with a representative who offered the only apology of: “Thats a shame,” I was offered a $2 refund, which was hardly compensation considering that I made a special trip to the store to buy the buck-fifty can in the first place.

With or without the bean sprouts, the stir fry was indeed awesome,  thanks to the awesome sauce.

Subaru heres you

Posted in Funnyon Jan 20, 2011

Posting yet another big-company spelling error, I got a customer survey request from Subaru the other day. They need to check the difference between “here” and “hear” as evident in the email subject, “Subaru wants to here from you”. Here is a screenshot:

Boost Mobile is comming

Posted in Funnyon Jan 20, 2011

I’ve decided to post examples of big companies misspelling things. My first example comes from Boost Mobile, a pre-paid cell phone company that I’ve blogged about before. I found this on one of their customer feedback sites. Check the spelling of “comming.”


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