pflaming Posted September 8, 2015 Report Posted September 8, 2015 I hate It when ads have an auto come lately into the ad. When I'm on my ipad, I think it's a cockroach or a Dillo! At times it's a bit unsettling. Quote
Don Coatney Posted September 8, 2015 Report Posted September 8, 2015 PP I fully do not understand what message you are trying to convey. Can you explain in English? 1 Quote
BobT-47P15 Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 Don........I think he's talking about some advertisements that appear on his i-pad. They must take him by surprise or scare him. That's all I can make of it. Quote
pflaming Posted October 3, 2015 Author Report Posted October 3, 2015 Bob, you are correct, some ads have a late entry, like a car drives in to the picture. I call these items, cockroaches! Quote
Jeff Balazs Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 I stomped on a cockroach the other day that was big enough for signage. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 pflaming, on 03 Oct 2015 - 09:37 AM, said:Bob, you are correct, some ads have a late entry, like a car drives in to the picture. I call these items, cockroaches! that is about he way I see it when you post a thread.....BAZINGA Quote
DonaldSmith Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 Advertising cockroaches - The ambiguity of our language. Are they advertising cockroaches? I think pflaming means that there are there cockroaches in the advertisings. The headline game- take a headline one word at a time and try to make sense of it. Maybe by the fifth or sixth word we can figure out which word was the subject, which was an adverb, or adjective, or the verb. An example escapes me. I once had a collection of confusing headlines. If I can find some, I'll post them. 1 Quote
DonaldSmith Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 I did run across this: The Amazing English Language Perhaps you want to write the right way, or you have read what you can read below. If you ever feel stupid, then just read on. If you've learned to speak fluent English, you must be a genius! This little treatise on the lovely language we share is only for the brave. Peruse at your leisure, English lovers. Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn: 1) The bandage was wound around the wound. 2) The farm was used to produce produce. 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse. 4) We must polish the Polish furniture. 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. 8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 10) I did not object to the object. 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row. 13) They were too close to the door to close it. 14) The buck does funny things when the does are present. 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line. 16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. 17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail. 18) After a number of injections my jaw got number. 19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear. 20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? Is it an odd, or an end? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"? Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 All this cockroach stuff bugs me. 1 Quote
DonaldSmith Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 How many of us have just swatted our screen? 1 Quote
pflaming Posted October 3, 2015 Author Report Posted October 3, 2015 Shucks, Don had some ants moving around on a post way back when!! Punctuate this: Time flies you can't they fly in too irregular intervals Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 Fly fact. The metabolism of a fly is such that it has to poop every 3 to 5 seconds. And it cant fly and poop at the same time. So just think about what it is doing when it lands on your apple pie. Quote
pflaming Posted October 3, 2015 Author Report Posted October 3, 2015 Don, politics are a no no on this forum!!! Lol Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 No political statement was made. I told the truth. Quote
pflaming Posted October 3, 2015 Author Report Posted October 3, 2015 Telling the truth is not PC! Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 As I said and I picked my words carefully, No political statement was made. I told the truth. 1 Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 Don owes me a new monitor now! Quote
Don Coatney Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 Don owes me a new monitor now! How about a new Merrimac 1 Quote
Niel Hoback Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 I poked mine with a stylus. Didn't get him. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 no...monitor lizard...poor little guy battered his head plum crazy trying to get that bug... 1 Quote
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