I love you all. I appreciate every submission (and want more! MORE!). But sometimes I get submissions I choose not to use, because I don’t like them. It’s my blog.
Sometimes I feel like the mistake was so obviously made by someone struggling with English that I don’t find it amusing… I’ve made hideous errors myself in foreign languages. More than once!
Sometimes I don’t think the “mistake” was a mistake. Sometimes I’m just in a bad mood and I don’t want to, jeez.
And then sometimes I find myself genuinely puzzled about the error. I stare at it. I try to think about what the submitter could have seen that I’m not seeing. I try to be ONE with the error.
This picture wasn’t quite one of those. Veronica wrote only “Gag” in her email, so I wasn’t sure what I was looking for.
It’s clearly a tagline, and I know copywriters have a bit of creative latitude in things like capitalization and punctuation. So I looked at this one, and contemplated whether it was really a mistake.
Then I realized something. I was HUGELY UNCOMFORTABLE. What is it about this picture, y’all? It’s totally unnerving! There’s a figure in the corner that might be a baby-doll in a carseat, or it might be a crash test dummy, or it might be a dead body, it’s just sitting there floppily… there’s a poster with hivemind buzzwords… and then there’s
and I just can’t handle it any more. What is this, Volvo? What are you trying to do to us? I’m so confused.