Euphuistic Blithering
Monday, April 21st, 2008I quite like the phrase “euphuistic blithering”, after reading it in the paper today. Pondering it as a new slogan to replace the current one…
Archive for April, 2008
We Hope You Enjoyed Reading this Post
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Amazon just sent me one of their oh-so-useless-and-far-too-frequent emails, gleefully advertising 40% off a book that I am not interested in, never will be interested in, and bears no resemblance to my past ordering history.
Around one third of the way into the email, where the footer and smallprint start, was this paragraph:
We hope you enjoyed […]
Mine, All Mine!
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Well, as T-Mobile has decided that they own the colour magenta, and we have all known that the Royal Mail staked claim to the colour red a while ago. Cadbury’s own the colour purple, Heinz own the turquoise colour used on their cans, BP own green and Orange own, well… orange (more specifically, Pantone 151).
It’s […]