Ladies
and gentlemen, the point of today's sermonette is to remind all of us
to be careful in writing and speaking. Just to set the mood, I'll tell
one on myself: some years ago I sent an email (work-related) to someone
higher in rank from whom I needed a favor. I knew she had a lot on her
plate, as they say at work and at buffets. So I cleverly started it out,
"I know you are very busty, but I was wondering if..."
I don't recall her response, but I'll bet she did more than just spell-check it.
Anyway
- how about this for an actual web address - it must have made a fine
corporate name, but the name that looked just fine on a letterhead
suffered a lot from being squeezed together as a dot.com:
Who Represents?, a company where you can check out actors and others who are represented by agents and the like: www.whorepresents.com.And
when Liberty Records pressed several hundred thousand copies of Canned
Heat's 45 of "Let's Work Together," some poorly laid-out typography made
the title of the song on the flip side, something called "I'M HER MAN,"
appear to be something called "I'M HERMAN." It should have been a
munster hit, but that was not to be.
Verbal slips include Sally
Field, the actress once most famous for playing Gidget and then most
famous for shrieking, "You like me! You really like me!" upon winning
an award, doing the spot for "once-monthly Boniva." Except: listen to
the way she says it: "One Smonthly Boniva."
All this came to mind
on vacation when we heard what we thought was a commercial for a pizza
and sub shop called "Uncle Loogie's." At least, that's the way the
announcer kept saying it. Outside of calling your business something
even more gross than "Loogie's," I couldn't think of a worse name for a
sub shop. So I checked it out. It's Uncle Oogie's. Sounds better that way, does it not?
If you're not too busty, how about some lunch?
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