Who put the crack in crackers?

Aldi did.

At least, a so-called Graphic Designer did, with the hare-brained idea of mixing capital and lower case letters within words.

It's believed that Rosemary wasn't too happy with her box on display like that.

Indecent offer

20% off sounds pretty good.

But 20% off every day? Well, as Greg L says, that's just the standard price then, surely?

Talk about being taken to the cleaners.

Trumped

Before he and his catchphrases are lost and forgotten about forever, I thought I'd take this opportunity to remind ourselves of his visionary campaign slogan.

© Wallingford Sign

A bridge too near

Repeat after me, the company mantra.

You better Beliebe it

Not sure of God's purpose?

You're not alone. Take Justin Bieber's merchandising people.

Please. Just take them.

Cruz conrtol

Oh look. The US Presidential campaign is getting into a higher gear.

Never mind, Rafa. I'm sure there'll be many more like this from your rivals before too long.

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.

Hail the fail

You've surely noticed the increasing number of Uber taxis around our towns and cities.

But, as the BBC is inclined to say, other taxi services are available.

One of them, Hailo, is much smaller than Uber and is trying desperately to win market share, particularly in London.

Unfortunately, Hailo's campaign slogan 'London. We're all over it', due to one of those pesky apostrophe catastrophes, is already showing signs of defeatism.

Photo: Gwen Wark/Facebook

Be prepared

Thanks to Trev L for finding this at apostrophecatastrophes.com

Like a good Scout, you should always Be Prepared.

Just in case you turn up to work at Walmart and they ask you to produce a poster.

De-stress signal

The Malaysian Ministry of Tourism was being derided the other week for publishing this advert featuring a stress ball with text printed on it that was supposed to say, 'Don't Be Stressed. Come and De-stress in Malaysia.'

But it didn't.

A bit of a stress balls up.

Unless Malaysia is home to a growing industry in shabby chic production.

Cool name

It's Stoke Newington rather than Oxford Street.

But, if you sell fridges in your shop, why wouldn't you use this name?

No bad feelings

Today's photo of the entrance to the Old Kings Road 'English pub' in Santa Barbara, California by Tony R (that's his reflection in the window) arrives via Jon C.

Although I understand exactly what it means (I'm British), I'm also wondering how effective this sign could be.

I mean, if you, er, truly qualify, you're not going to walk up to the door, read the sign, and steal away, surely? That really would be taking matters into your own hand, as it were.

And the people whom it's really targeting (you know the type) won't recognise themselves as such in a million years.

It's short and to the point though. I'd be tempted to have a drink there.

Even if it was just to hold my own.

Stimulator simulator

Tom L quite fancied downloading this game until he saw the strapline.

So that's what real Subway Drivers are doing in their cosy little cabs.

And all in glorious 3D.

Brooklyn: my kind of town

Ellie J stopped dead in her tracks at the weekend when she stumbled across this t-shirt for sale at Primark in Nottingham.

It has the word Brooklyn emblazoned across it, together with New York USA.

It also has a photograph taken in er, Lincoln Park, Chicago, nearly 800 miles away.

I've read that Primark has plans to open some shops in New York in 2015.

It'll be interesting to see exactly where they end up.

Be wear

Thanks, Dennis A, for this one.

There's some debate about whether the caption is, in fact, intentional or a typo.

Either we are Number 1 in which case we're definitely not as far as apostrophe placement is concerned.

Or we were Number 1, in which case we might have been at one time but we're certainly not now.

Either way, it's not particularly good news for the UK.

As for the hoodie, where would we wear it?

Well, we're wearing it on the weir now but where were we when we were wearing it where we were then?

In the warehouse. Which, if there's any justice, is to where these were wares which we were wearing would wend their weary way.

Size matters

Statisticians claim that, in the UK, you're never more than 20 feet away from a rat.

In the US apparently they use a different unit of measurement.

Not exactly a standard length though.

Punk's not dead

We all turn into our parents eventually.

At least bad spelling lives on.

Ape-rahisation

It's not at all clear but Greg L is hoping that this is a description of the show's content rather than one of the show itself.

Sign language

In an effort to combat speeding traffic outside a school, a resident of Auburn, California put up this sign.

I'm not sure how effective it's been.

I mean, you might drive more slowly past the sign.

But only because you're looking at the sign. And not the road.

The 12 Typos of Christmas

For the final post before Christmas Day I've gone completely festive with a YouTube collection of typos from xthankmyluckystarx.

As she admits, she can't sing but hats off to her anyway for putting them all together.

Back on Friday with more holiday fun.

Meanwhile, have a very Merry Christmas!