Poor cakes

The pie, the pasty and the sandwich all have something to show for their efforts, although it's far from clear exactly what it is they own.

It's a different story for the poor old cakes. They have nothing.

Tomato sorcery

You say tomato, I say... lemon.

Keep left, right?

Thanks to Trev L for sharing this one, though I'm not sure where it originated.

But I'd have loved to have been there to witness the result.

Anything goes

Please do not place anything on this Freezer.

Not even a warning sign.

The fine print

Not to put too fine a point on it, there's a fine line between being fine and being fined.

I agree with Greg L: it wasn't the label designer's finest hour.

Schrödinger's car park

Where you must simultaneously exist and not exist.

Or, as Descartes would have it: I park, therefore I am.

Which translates roughly into the Latin: Cargito, ergo sum.

Left right in the lurch

To many people 'left is right and right is wrong' is a valid political statement.

Here's a paradigm shift for you, courtesy of Steve R and others.

In this case, left is right and right is right too.

Completely Dottie

I agree with Jon C.

I think it's reasonable to expect that someone who claims to have spent over 25 years carefully dotting her 'i's and crossing her 't's should be more than capable of checking her newspaper ad in the Palo Alto Daily Post equally carefully before it went to print.

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs

Spotted at the Wetherby office of its Member of Parliament a couple of Saturdays ago.

On the stairs that lead up to the office. Open to the public.

At a communal address.

And unattended.

So, not quite 'delivered exactly' as quoted in DX's marketing.

Sweet Fanny Adams

It sounds like that's all you'll get if you buy this product.

Looking on the bright side, it's safe to say that there's no added sugar.

Full of beens

Here we go again.

Taken from an article about the importance of proofreading.

Yet...

Better get that root file fixed. Whatever that means.

When David met Dafydd

Sent in by Greg L whose friend captured this scene in Cardiff after the Wales v Israel international football match a couple of weeks ago.

'Remember, Bubala, what happens in Cardiff, stays in Cardiff.'

Rights issue

To appreciate fully this photo from Dennis A, you need to know that, in the UK, we drive on the left. So, when we were youngsters at school, it was rammed into us daily that we should stop at the kerb of a two-way street and look right to see the oncoming traffic.

It follows therefore, at least in the minds of Gosport council workers apparently, that, on the other side of the same two-way street, you should look left.

When the error was brought to the attention of Gosport council, to compound the felony, the employees deleted both signs when, clearly, the Look Right one was always correct.

A case of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing.

Non-moving stock

You'd think that, if you ran an online business specialising in a certain type of product, you'd know how to spell it correctly.

Especially on the same page.

Correction imperfection

Thanks to Ann F for sending me this pearler which appeared in the Toronto Sun.

These boots were made for balking

I'm not an expert. Are they really that bad?

MacMallpractice

Thanks to Trev L for this one.

It looks as though MacMall has been taking marketing advice from our friends at Tesco.

Veiled threats

As it turned out, Leeds Rhinos treated Huddersfield Giants to a bit of a mauling.

Half-baked marketing

As if conning us in its shops wasn't enough, Tesco is now ripping us off online.

Jon C was entirely unimpressed with the half price beans offer.

You'd think that Tesco employees could at least count.

Oh wait. I seem to remember Tesco overstating its profits by £263million last year.

Coincidence? You decide.

Lies, damned lies and election results

Another reason why Labour didn't do well in the recent election?

Three seats declared, three seats won, and 0% gained.