h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

RF, you are truly a Pedant of the highest order

"95% Fat-Free"

So it's 5% pure, unadulterated greasy fat then.

>> RF, you are truly a Pedant of the highest order <<

Praise indeed, SWL.

Someone has to maintain standards!

RF

*Pours 95% fat free oil on troubled deep waters, adds bridge & sings Simon & Garfunkle song*

Well at least the featured creatures are wet types. It's a start. And if the Tshirt was black, that's

I'm rather a pedant myself...restrain me from singing "pedant, pedant, pedant, pedant, pedant bah da diddly wooh, doo diddly bom" to the tune of the Pink Panther.

zdt

Your peniis will worship you for this" was one of todays best. I enjoyed screaming "I don't have a sodding peniis; learn to spell you jerk!" before deleting.

They are trying to make a word which is already the plural of something into another plural. Why?
One Penis, Two Penii, Three Penii.

You can't make the plural of a word that is already a plural by putting an s at the end of it.

No, they are finding a way of going round spam filters that are set to exclude the word 'penis'.

From JohnnyK: "my favorite* ones - Personal Injury Lawyers (Habe you had an accident, can we sue someone an take most of the compensation...)"

A shopping centre near me regularly has people with a stall attacking me as I walk in waving some form at me, saying "Excuse me sir, have you had an accident in the past three years?"
I shut one up a while ago, by replying "Yes, I was up at 3am this morning changing it's nappy!"
The man was strangely stuck for words!

Another possible answer could be "No, but my incontinent gran has several daily, could you help her?"

...and the plural of "penis" is "penes".

RF

Surely it should be "pens are"?

As in "my pens are very long and contain lots of ink"?

Why would anyone need a plural for penis? Am I missing something?

The United States Congress?

Latest annoyance is the ads for some fruit-based shower gel, whose name thankfully escapes me.

5,738 mint leaves or 12,000 lemons go into each bottle apparently. While half the world is starving and the rainforests are giving way to agriculture to feed the rest, can anyone think of a more pointless and trivial waste of food than to smear it over your body and then wash it down the drain? and

the advert for skoda where the woman jumps onto the train from a bridge, ducks down to avoid a tunnel, slides down the side of the train and smashes through the glass to give him documents he forgot.

1stly, the jump - probly would have broken both her legs or ankles.
the window glass of trains is hard to break, they normally have a metal hammer in the carriage to escape.

and has she never heard of a FAX MACHINE?
silly cow.

the Sure ads as well get me somewhat...and as for the 'Clever Kids' Ads for Vauxhall ....

I always thought the idea of an advert was to sell the product, not put people off buying the product.
Yesterday I saw a Nike advert, in it they showed assorted people haveing genuine sporting acidents, in part of the advert they showed a runer running down road vomiting over himself!
...for the love of Bob where do they get these ideas from! That is the worst thing you can put in an advert for me, yuk.

Are we talking Paris Hilton stupid or Tom Cruise stupid?

more like 'I'll never buy that product again' stupid...

It's the 27th of August, and some carpet cleaner advert with a low rent Dale Winton type has just informed me it's ing Christmas.

That's bad. My boycott of shops (not stores, one goes shopping in shops, not storing in stores) that mention christmas before December gets trickier every year.

I really must write that anti-Xmas choon!

Have to say I've come round to Dove. I hated them in the early days, when they tried to persuade us their soap was pH neutral by placing a piece of indicator tape on it to show that it stayed white. When anyone with any knowledge of science knows that pH neutral is 7 and turns litmus paper green...

but I do applaud their campaign for real beauty.