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Asda: Good on price. Not so hot on spelling

30th
Dec
by Sarah Turner

How many of these receipts have been handed out in the last few weeks do you wonder? And how many people have even noticed? (And yes, most of it was booze.)


Turner Ink Christmas card bloopers – the answers

23rd
Dec
by Sarah Turner

Old Typewriter smallSo for those of you that received a Turner Ink Xmas card this year, these are the bloopers. How many did you get?

 

A Christmas tail [A classic homonym. It should be tale.]

Santa was having a bad day. 4 [up to number 10, spell out the number. So Four] of his elfs [elves] were throwing a sickie and the work experience elves werent [don't forget the apostrophe, weren't] producing toys fast enough. Santa was beginning to feel the pressure.

His blog needed updating. He hadn’t checked twitter [brand name, so Twitter] for at least 20 minites [minutes]. And people were giving him greif [grief] on Facebook.

Than [then], as he began to load his slay [another homonym, sleigh] one of the boards broke. And several large bags from Amazon fell to the ground: [a comma here not a colon] scattering their contents all over the place. Needless to say, santa [Cap S, Santa] was not in the best of moods.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang and he went to the door expecting another problem. But when he opened it; [comma here not a semicolon] there was just a little angle [like 18 degrees? Geddit? Yes, it should be angel of course] with a great big christmas [Christmas] tree.

The angel greeted him very cheerfully: [So lots of newspapers and mags have a colon to introduce speech. It's not needed though. A comma would suffice.]  “Merry Christmas Santa claus [cap C, Claus]. Isn’t it just a wonderful day [question mark needed]. I have a beautiful tree for you. See, isn’t its [it] just the loveliest Christmas Tree [lower case t, tree] you’ve ever seen? Where would you like me to put it?’ [You started with double speech marks, you need to end with double speech marks.]

And that’s how the angel on top of the Christmas tree tradition began.

Hands up who circled the And and But at the beginning of a sentence as an error? Back of the class!

Happy Christmas anyway.


She Ain’t Heavy, She’s Just the Home Secretary

27th
Jun
by Sarah Turner

She’s not a small woman. I think he should be allowed to stay purely based on his gallantry.


Ladies – this is one for you

11th
May
by Sarah Turner

Plural of man is men, so hair styling belonging to the men is men’s. Check.

Plural of child is children, so hair styling belonging to children is children’s. Check.

So hair styling belonging to the ladies is…..nooooooooo!

 

 

 


What Phil gets up to when he says he’s working late!

2nd
Apr
by Sarah Turner

We moved offices at over Christmas. And in the studio we’ve got a nice big white wall we’ve yet to fill. Until last night that was. I came into work this morning and Phil had created Super Mario out of a pack of Post-It notes. Brilliant!

 

Post-It Note Mario

 


 

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