Express Yourself

McDonald's is pimping their McCafe espresso coffees furiously on television commercials lately.  The guy doing the voice-over on the commercial unmistakably says "expresso."

Really?

Previous Store - Next Store

I saw an old high school buddy's post on Facebook this morning that used the words "next store" instead of "next door."

An egg corn first for me.  Amazing.

Phonetics

Saw this a couple of weeks ago and chuckled.

Impact This!

With every natural disaster (earthquake, hurricane, etc.) comes the prolific overuse of the word "impact."  I don't recall hearing the words "effect" or "affect" used once during the coverage.

Hmm...

Wednesday I got home from work and greeted the cats, Kitty and Baby, as I usually do. I grabbed the key to the mailbox and informed the cats I was going to fetch the mail. On my way out to the mailbox, it occurred to me how many different ways my declaration to the cats could’ve been taken by someone overhearing me:

“I’m gonna check the mail, cats.”
Informing felines I’m going to the mailbox.

“I’m gonna check the mail, cats.”
Informing cool people I’m going to the mailbox.

“I’m gonna check the mail cats.”
Declaring I’m going to check up on feline mail-deliverers
Or
Declaring I’m going to check up on the cool mail-deliverers

“I’m gonna check the male cats.”
Announcing the sex of the felines I’m going to check.

I’m gonna check the male, cats.”
Informing felines I’m going to check out some dude.

News Box Office

There's this web site I discovered while Googling Weiner (Sorry. I couldn't resist!) stories.  My first thought was that the site was written by a non-native speaker of English.  But the more I read, the more it seemed like it might have been pieced together by a computer, using various other sites as its information source.  What do you think?  Here's the story.  And here's the link to the homepage of the site.

NBC Nightly News Crawler

Unlike some of the local stations here in San Antonio, the NBC News crawler gets corrected pretty quickly. This correction was done in less than a minute.



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The Power of Words

http://www.wimp.com/powerwords/

Hmmm...

I saw this response to a post of a picture on a friend's Facebook wall.

Poker? I Hardly Know 'er

While watching Sunday morning television, I usually browse the Internet using the Firefox add-on Stumbleupon. One of the random sites I hit this morning was the United Kingdom site MailOnline. Specifically, there was a page dedicated to Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima (It was random, I swear!). The picture posted herein was displayed about halfway down the page. I can’t say that I’ve ever heard of “poker dots.”

Now…Off to ponder more serious things – Like why I noticed this boo-boo among all the scantily-clad fabulousness on this page!