Friday, October 26, 2007

more "free" stuff


I'll just go with what Matthieu wrote to me for this one: "When I saw this sign, I wasn't fooled: I knew I'd have to pay for my drink, so I kept walking."

11 comments:

Travel Leaders of Fargo said...

I love your blog! I am big into grammer and notice that every where I go. I will have to keep an eye out for quotation marks!

jspencer said...

This seems to be a common one. I really don't get it.

It can't be a slogan, but maybe they brought a customer a free drink and he was like "wow, that sure is complimentary!" so they put it on their sign...

missThinspiration said...

Your blog is FABULOUS!! I love it !!I'm grammar deficit you would have a field day on my page.

Anonymous said...

Great blog. I'm here from Blogger's Blogs of Note - check it out if you hadn't noticed you made their list!

Anonymous said...

What's worse is this one is in Comic Sans.

demonburner4 said...

Lol, this one was funny. I've seen this one a million times.

Jeff Cutler said...

Hey. "Worst of all" the word complimentary is incorrect!! It should be complementary.

Heavens. Love your site. Put a link to it on my blog - Bowl of Cheese dot com.

Jeff

jspencer said...

^
Actually "complimentary" is correct.

"Complementary" would mean they're serving something analogous to beverage rather than giving it to you "with the compliments of the house."

Reene said...

I agree with Marc, the quotation marks are bad enough but Comic Sans is the worst and people use it like it's their job or something. It's horrible!

Shinykatie said...

Comic Sans and quotation mark double whammy. *Shudders*

Anonymous said...

Maybe they were just trying to be clear that the free drink won't actually give you compliments. LOL