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I reckon the restaurant sign is trying to point out the dinner special and the dessert special -- I don't think it's implying the ribs come in a Cherry Chocoloate Chip variety.
There is a chain called Culver's that does this -- the top of the sign has the latest meal special (Chicken salad, say), the bottom of the sign has the custard flavor of the day (Oreo mint). Though the joke of "oreo mint chicken salad???" never gets old...
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You know, I'm sure the Spanish lottery has some good intentions with this one ... but still, I don't wanna know what this guy is doing:
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There's a relatively new place here that serves nothing but chicken strips. They have a sign for their homemade sauce that reads:
Homemade Honey Mustard Sauce 2 oz. cup $ .25 8 oz. cup $2.99
I asked the mangager once about the sign. He didn't seem to think anything was odd about it until I said, "If I wanted 8 ounces, couldn't I just buy four 2 ounce cups for $1.00 instead of one 8 ounce cup for $3.00?" He said, "Hmmmm...."
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You actually would be surprised (or maybe not, don't know how it is in the US) how often this "stunt" is pulled in German stores of all kinds. The "harmless" version ("1 piece 50 cent - SPECIAL OFFER!!! GET 5 for only 2,50!!!") and the tougher companion. Sometimes it's more difficult to compare. One of my favourite sweets comes in two sizes: 15 and 48 pieces respectively. Often the 15 is way cheaper per piece than the 48. But, admittedly, hardly ever as bad as in your example.
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quote:Originally posted by Canuckistan's home: You know, I'm sure the Spanish lottery has some good intentions with this one ... but still, I don't wanna know what this guy is doing:
Well, I can tell what he's supposed to be doing, but what the heck does a blind man with a cane have to do with the Spanish lottery?
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quote:Originally posted by Ulkomaalainen: One of my favourite sweets comes in two sizes: 15 and 48 pieces respectively. Often the 15 is way cheaper per piece than the 48. But, admittedly, hardly ever as bad as in your example.
In my experience, most grocery stores in the states list both total price and unit price. So, in your candy example, the prices would read $0.75 (.05 ea) and $3.00 (.0625 ea). Of course, if you're not in a grocery store, you're SOL unless you can do the math.
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quote:Originally posted by Seaboo Muffinchucker: Well, I can tell what he's supposed to be doing, but what the heck does a blind man with a cane have to do with the Spanish lottery?
That was my second question when I saw this. You can probably guess what my No. 1 question was.
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My aunt saw a sign at Myrtle Beach that said 'Real live dead sea horses'
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quote:Originally posted by Ulkomaalainen: The "harmless" version ("1 piece 50 cent - SPECIAL OFFER!!! GET 5 for only 2,50!!!") and the tougher companion.
Amazon pulls that stuff all the time. You'll see something, say a book on exotic backscratchers. As part of the description, they say "BETTER TOGETHER!" and then show a 'bundle' of the book you're looking at, plus another related one, for a "special price" of, well, the same price as if you had ordered them sepearately.
quote:Originally posted by Ulkomaalainen: The "harmless" version ("1 piece 50 cent - SPECIAL OFFER!!! GET 5 for only 2,50!!!") and the tougher companion.
Amazon pulls that stuff all the time. You'll see something, say a book on exotic backscratchers. As part of the description, they say "BETTER TOGETHER!" and then show a 'bundle' of the book you're looking at, plus another related one, for a "special price" of, well, the same price as if you had ordered them sepearately.
-Tim
Maybe I'm reading you wrong (correct me if I am) but maybe it refers to the fact that you're not paying two shipping fees? Only one?
Or maybe I'm wrong. I've only ever ordered one item at a time on line.
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quote:Originally posted by Ulkomaalainen: You actually would be surprised (or maybe not, don't know how it is in the US) how often this "stunt" is pulled in German stores of all kinds. The "harmless" version ("1 piece 50 cent - SPECIAL OFFER!!! GET 5 for only 2,50!!!") and the tougher companion. Sometimes it's more difficult to compare. One of my favourite sweets comes in two sizes: 15 and 48 pieces respectively. Often the 15 is way cheaper per piece than the 48. But, admittedly, hardly ever as bad as in your example.
Others have already posted some examples, but it is fairly common in the U.S.
A few years ago when Coke first came out with 12 packs, one of our local stores had 6 packs for 99 cents or 12 packs for $2.79 (or something like that, I don't remember exactly, it's been a few years ago).
Then, a year or a few years later, when the 24 packs came out, the prices were something like this:
6 pack $1.19 12 pack $2.99 24 pack $6.49
You could buy four 6 packs for 4.76 or one 24 pack for $6.49.
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Here's one for the grammar police among us:
A street runs in front of a local office building. Due to storm drain repair, the street is closed to through traffic; those who work at the company who inhabits the building are allowed to drive down the street to get to the parking lot.
At the point where through traffic is not allowed, is the following sign:
"(Company name) PERSONAL ONLY"
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quote:Originally posted by Debunker: At the point where through traffic is not allowed, is the following sign:
"(Company name) PERSONAL ONLY"
My company suffered through a strike earlier this year, while there was construction work being done on the campus. It took them three tries to get the sign directing traffic right.
Seaboe
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quote:Originally posted by Ulkomaalainen: The "harmless" version ("1 piece 50 cent - SPECIAL OFFER!!! GET 5 for only 2,50!!!") and the tougher companion.
Amazon pulls that stuff all the time. You'll see something, say a book on exotic backscratchers. As part of the description, they say "BETTER TOGETHER!" and then show a 'bundle' of the book you're looking at, plus another related one, for a "special price" of, well, the same price as if you had ordered them sepearately.
-Tim
Maybe I'm reading you wrong (correct me if I am) but maybe it refers to the fact that you're not paying two shipping fees? Only one?
Or maybe I'm wrong. I've only ever ordered one item at a time on line.
I think you get free shipping on certian items if you spend more than a certian amount. Ususlly ordering the two items together does push the total high enough to qualify for free shipping. However, what Rehcsif was saying is that you would spend the same amount -- and still qualify for free shipping -- if you ordered the two items seperately than if you bought the "bundel." And of course you'd still spend less money by just ordering the one item you're looking at, even with shipping.
It seems to me like I did order two books like that once and it was cheaper than orderng them seperately, but maybe it's not like that for all books.
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Friend just told me the story of his son who visited a Burger King over the recent Thanksgiving weekend. He saw a sign on the Drive thru window that said,
"Sorry, No carbonated drinks are available this evening. We are out of carbon."
Hmmmm. Kind of a diamond in the rough I guess.
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quote:Originally posted by KingoHrts: Friend just told me the story of his son who visited a Burger King over the recent Thanksgiving weekend. He saw a sign on the Drive thru window that said,
"Sorry, No carbonated drinks are available this evening. We are out of carbon."
Hmmmm. Kind of a diamond in the rough I guess.
So, I guess the workers at Burger King are all silicon based lifeforms.
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Dang, I just threw out a perfectly good stone last week, wish I had known about that place!!!!!!!!!
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Livingston, Guatemala has lots of odd signs. Painted in two-foot letters and bright Rastafarian colors on the front wall of a nightclub: "LIFE MUSIC" (Sounds inspirational...) Outside a small restaurant/bar: "For 'anything' you want ask the bartender." The really weird part is that there was a picture of Samuel L. Jackson on the sign. We never did figure that one out.
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ok, I have two signs. both actually do make since in of what the sign is but I'll explain.
first we have a city sign:
Boring Oregon City.
The second one "no sking in parking lot" made us laugh. Yes, I know it was a ski resort.. BUT when we were there it was summer and quite hot. it tickled our funnybones a bit too hard.
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quote:Originally posted by Ulkomaalainen: One of my favourite sweets comes in two sizes: 15 and 48 pieces respectively. Often the 15 is way cheaper per piece than the 48. But, admittedly, hardly ever as bad as in your example.
In my experience, most grocery stores in the states list both total price and unit price. So, in your candy example, the prices would read $0.75 (.05 ea) and $3.00 (.0625 ea). Of course, if you're not in a grocery store, you're SOL unless you can do the math.
I find the grocery stores still like to fool people around here, even with a unit price. For example, a two liter bottle will give you the unit price per ounce, but the 24-pack will give you unit price per can. There have been several times that I can't figure out what the unit is, especially when two similar items will be about the same price for about the same quantity, but the unit prices will be something like $.245 and $.025. I usually find that the store brand is the one with the much lower unit price.
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This one's not so much a sign that doesn't make sense as opposed to a sign with a really embarrassing typo. From a gelateria in San Juan, Puerto Rico:
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During my time in Jordan, I saw the following spelling mistake on signs:
* "Attorney at low"
At least one attorney who is honest about it...
* "Lenin World"
A shop that sold linen...
* "Seven hells restaurant"
Was meant to be "Seven hills"...
* "For your own safety, please do not pass the balls when you swim"
This sign was by the pool, but it actually was about the beach. What it was trying to say was that you should not swim outside the buoys because you could get hit by a boat or water skier.
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To come back to the ONCE thing: It means Organizacion National de Ciegos Espanoles, which means national organisation of the blind in Spain, which runs a lottery to profit the blind..that's all there is to it, nothing funny at all..
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Back in the 70s, when we lived in Japan, my mom and I would get a huge laugh out of a clothing store that had a sign posted: "Ladies Have Fits Upstairs." I never went upstairs, but it was fun to imagine a big padded room, rather than the (intended) fitting rooms.
There were lots of signs that tried to use English to attract American customers. We had a lot of fun trying to spot the "Japlish" when we were out. I'm sure we Americans make some similar errors when we try to attract, say, Hispanic customers by using Spanish phrases when we're not fluent in the language!
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quote:Originally posted by Anathema Device: To come back to the ONCE thing: It means Organizacion National de Ciegos Espanoles, which means national organisation of the blind in Spain, which runs a lottery to profit the blind..that's all there is to it, nothing funny at all..
Not how it was explained to me, which may explain the confusion on the second part. But thanks, AD.
(ETA: Just to go into super-nitpick mode (in another language, no less), it's Nacional, not National, in Spanish. Hey, I told you it was a super-nitpick. )
As to the first point I raised ... my question stands.
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That one gets a "Huh?" for me, plus the thought of dragging all my suits to that place and asking for the $10 off the free dry cleaning. Figure they would be giving me around a hundred dollars back and cleaning the suits.
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quote:Originally posted by A Canuckistan in Paris: This sign was attempting to explain when the winter schedule would kick in. Unfortunately, after reading that, I still have no idea.
Here we go:
quote: Winter starts on the last Sunday in September and ends the day before the last Saturday in March. Summer starts on the last Sunday in March and ends on the day before the last Sunday in September.
That's not every day though. It leaves out the last Saturday in March. Winter ends on the day before the last Saturday = Friday And summer starts on the last Sunday in March. What if the last day of March is a Saturday? Wouldn't there be an overlap then?
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I got a new Mp3 Player today, its chinease, and the user manual is the wierdest ive seen, bad English. One example in the "troubleshoot" section was
9. Sudden stop of the player when the music is playing
Please check the following :
1) Please the reset switch is used to on or not. 2) Please the battery is finishing or not.
Ill get some scans soon
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