In our area we have a company that sells and services copiers and other office machines. Their slogan is “Good service isn’t expensive, it’s priceless.”
Every time I hear this, my brain translates this as, “It’s expensive.”
What examples can you think of that really bug you?
Checkers (fast food restaurant) with “You gotta eat!” I always thought it sounded like they were saying, well, if there’s nothing else nearby, you don’t want to starve yourself, so you might as well eat at a Checkers.
The AM/PM Mini-Markets (think Circle-K or 7-11) have the announcer on the commercials say “You can’t have too much good stuff.” A moment later he says “AM/PM, too much good stuff.”
So it means I can’t go there or I shouldn’t bother?
Was made from antinquated, inefficient and not necessarily better farming methods which, if applied to the whole world, would result in mass starvation.
“Half the fat of peanut butter, and less sugar than many jams”
Way to cherry-pick your comparisons, guys. How about “Hundreds of times more fat than jam, and a whole lot more sugar than peanut butter! Yeah!”
I also like, on cereal “Low GI when served with milk”
I recently discovered a channel on my cable network called The Cooking Channel. They show some oldies (original Galloping Gourmet, old Julia Child, original Iron Chef, etc.) as well as new programming.
Anyway, the tag line in the ads for their channel is Stay Hungry. Er, if I’m watching cooking shows, I want to eat, not remain hungry. Do they not want me to make Nigella’s late-night chocolate chip muffins? Should I remain hungry? Is this a diet channel?