Someone actually said this

Published 1/24/08

quotes

Can you imagine the discussion?

"We can’t put it in quotes if someone didn’t say it."

"So what do we do?"

"Find someone to say it. How about Willie?"

"But he’s just the mailboy!"

"Doesn’t matter, as long as someone says these exact words. Otherwise we have to reprint all the boxes."

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gnomic says:

The box contains prostitutes and sex toys. The quote is wrong.

January 24th, 2008 at 12:42 PM

Anonymous says:

They just mis-spelled a word, come on. If you read it aloud you get the meaning.

This reminds me of a column Dave Barry wrote like 20 years ago.

January 26th, 2008 at 11:17 AM

tommy says:

Anonymous said:

“They just mis-spelled a word, come on. If you read it aloud you get the meaning.

This reminds me of a column Dave Barry wrote like 20 years ago.”

That was actually me.

January 26th, 2008 at 11:18 AM

Andrew says:

No no no no no — I wasn’t talking about misspelling, I was talking about the use of quotes.

January 26th, 2008 at 11:34 AM

Andrew says:

And what word was misspelled?

January 26th, 2008 at 11:34 AM

tommy says:

You don’t really “mean” than do you?

btw:

you said: “…what word was misspelled?”

I think you meant: “…which word was misspelled?”

:-)

January 26th, 2008 at 4:54 PM

tommy says:

…and then there’s the question of whether the statement means that the container actually “contains” those things, or is meant to be “used” to contain those things…

January 26th, 2008 at 5:00 PM

tommy says:

Mr. Kantor, at this point, who’s being wound up by whom?

Did you not get what gnomic was referring to in the first place, or do you really think we didn’t get what you were “talking” about?

January 28th, 2008 at 10:43 AM

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