I work at a grocery store. I put the cheese on the shelves. The cheese is right accross from the bread. As I push my cart of cheese, I notice a very interesting product - Xtreme white bread.
What’s een better is the grocery put a sign to announce this Xtreme white bread
Now, I can imagine putting quotes around Xtreme. That would make sense. What doesn’t make sense is putting quotes around new. That just makes me question the freshness of the bread.
Duh! The quotes are for emphasis. That’s obviously their inteded purpose! :rolleyes:
Ah. You see, the signmaker understood that the white bread was really nothing new, it just had a new, ridiculous name. It was their own personal :rolleyes: on the matter: “Try this. It’s ‘new’. They renamed an old product Xtreme. How lame.”
Or “maybe” they didn’t put that much “thought” into it, and thought “they” were “emphasising”. 
That’s like the sign at my gym:
“This” “way” “of” “saying” “things” “really” “gets” “on” “my” “nerves”…
Ha! I love it! What is the sign really trying to say? :
"REMINDER"! (or actually, we don’t care if you just forget about the whole thing)
There will be “no” (actually, there *will * be, we just don’t want you there)
aerobic “classes” (as if you could actually call them classes)
from “August 23” (actually, August 29)
until “August 29” (actually, August 23 - next year)
from “Cindy”. (who is actually a stripped whose real name is Michelle)
She will be “gone”. (she’ll really be here, hiding, pointing and laughing at you guys who thought there was an aerobics “class” for you. Haw haw haw!)
No, it wouldn’t, unless you were trying to imply that the bread isn’t so Xtreme after all!
Xactly
I want some Xtreme milk and eggs to go with my Xtreme loaf.
I dunno, but chocolate and strawberry flavored milk is hardly extreme. Maybe Xtreme, but not extreme.
Found a pic of the Xtreme White Bread:
You know, maybe the bread is normal, and the guy in the pic is Xtreme(ly) caucasian…
Now if only someone would come up with Jiffy Xtreme Peanut Butter and Smuckers Xtreme Jelly (“With a name like Smuckers it has to be Xtreme, fool!”) I could have a friggin sandwich.
My grocery store seems to have lost their flourescent poster-board and markers, because they’re just not as original as they used to be. Every so often we’d have “fresh” “meat” on “sale”. Which doesn’t sound very appetizing to me.
Great “discussion” you have going here.
That bread is totally proactive and in my face!