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Partner with Verizon. Why aren't we?
Slightly clunky wording in this advert for Verizon, as seen on ComputerWeekly.com:'Partner' is being used as a verb here, so I would have opted for 'why don't we?' rather than 'why aren't we?'.I wonder whether the fact that 'partner' can be a noun or...
A lion? In a taxi van?
The website for delivery company TaxiVan.net displays emails and letters from satisfied customers. That's a good idea, but I'd love to know the story behind this one:And I'm not surprised the son had "taken himself off" if a lion was about to turn up...
Google: 'Results 1-5 of about 0'
So Googling "tasked with a role" (don't ask!) and limiting the search to 'pages from the UK' gives five results.As you can see from the unexciting screengrab below, Google rather bizarrely calls them "results 1 -5 of about 0".But then I suppose five ...
Pseudo-indecent photographs
Today's picture is again a BBC News screengrab, this time from an article. I've highlighted the phrase of interest.I'm sure that's supposed to read 'indecent pseudo-photographs'... ...
So you know Kevin Bacon too?
Right, I'm on holiday at the moment so I've queued up some picture posts for your delight and delectation.The first is a screengrab from the BBC News website. As I hope you can see, it reads: "Six degrees: Is the theory we all know Kevin Bacon actual...
Reporter wins Nobel Prize. Sorry, I mean Pulitzer
A bit of confusion in this Wired PR News story between a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize (as usual, click to see a larger image):To be fair, Wired PR News spotted its mistake and offered a correction the following day, although the story with its or...
Caption: Cops ... investigating
Given the photo it goes alongside, is this the least informative picture caption ever? A colleague of mine spotted it on the Sun website. (Click on the image to see a larger version.)Just in case you can't see the screengrab, here's a link to the ori...
