Friday, May 09, 2008

no thermometer needed


Chris sent me this one. I guess warming up the copy machine is just a figure of speech - temperature has nothing to do with it.

12 comments:

Oskar Petur said...

Add to this:

If the "PC Load Letter" message appears, be sure to bring the baseball bat.

Isn't this proper usage of quotation marks?

bethany said...

it's not egregious, but it's a little bit funny. I think.

frenchie16 said...

Hmm. There used to be some really funny ones, but none of the recent pictures have made me laugh. Either this site has gone through all the best ones already, or I'm just getting accustomed to seeing badly used quotation marks.

Anonymous said...

I like this one because it suggests that the person who posted the message is a little dubious about the copier's "excuse" for the delay.

Connie Kleinjans said...

This One would also Qualify for the blog Of unnecessary Capital letters.

Anonymous said...

The "Be Patient, for..." construction reminds me of the Bible.

BOXC Jewelry said...

This is great! so true. You should also have a blog about how people misuse the @ sign. I've gotten so many emails from people using the @ sign, not as at, but as about instead.

Bharat said...

:) i've just been going through your blog. I've just never realized that people misuse quotation marks so much.. 'Tis funny :)

Oh, and congratulations on your feature :) Blogger's dashboard bug update links to your website... talk about "making it" :)

BatmanAoD said...

I think the funniest part about this one is the diction, the most humorous of which has already been pointed out by lynn.

@ boxc jewelry: I've never seen an @ sign used like that. Do you have any examples?

Anonymous said...

Hyphenating the verb-adverb phrase "warm-up" also makes it function as a noun. Maybe the copier just needs to do a few toe-touches to complete its warm-up, then. Oh - and the period should be inside the quotation marks. This sign makes all kinds of non-sense!

Not quite the Bradys said...

That copier is just a little shy around new people. If you give it some time, it will warm up to you and you'll probably be lifelong copying friends.

Just Us said...

Technically a copier's "warming up" does involve temperature. There's a heating element that has to get hot enough to melt the toner powder onto the paper before the copier will work, otherwise the toner wouldn't stick to the paper (that's why copies are warm when they're fresh from the machine).