Seeing Things…
30Jun2006
My eyes just are not what they used to be. The other day I was panic-browsing a popular web site when I thought I saw the link:
Change Your Religion
It turns out it said something much more mundane (Change Your Region), which is a pity, because it would be great to be able to faith-swap online.
The same day I then saw a sign in a public restroom which read:
Do Not Put Hand
Towels
in the Toilet
The order of the words made my eye skip the “Towels” part altogether. Is that just me?
Whilst on the subject of weird words, today I sent an email which just had the words “Byte Me Red Dennis” in the body, and it was a completely clean, work-related, legitimate email. And no, I am not going to explain it…
watch your mineral intake. the same thing started happening to me and then i found out i just needed more potassium and magnesium in my system. i had been depleting them with stress and alcohol.
In high school, I did the “morning announcements”. Part of the school lunch menu one day was “egg slice”. My co-announcer announced the menu and got called to the principal’s office because he thought my friend had said “ex-lax”. I love how such slight differences in speech or in what you read can be so amusing…I also LOVE that line from your work e-mail!
There was a store called “The Liquor Locker” and I could swear every time I saw the sign, it read “Liquid Chicken”.
And I hadn’t even been in the store.
At an old job, I used to start a conversation on the phone by saying, “Welcome to the success team.”
One day, during a threeway call with my boss and a client, I said, “Welcome to the sucsex team.”
I was horrified.
I’m sure there are religion swapping websites out there. I know there are sites that you can get married on. I doubt it’s a binding thing though…right…I hope…