PooterGeekers of a grammatical disposition—Pashmina, Norm, Judith, my dad—should look away now. I cannot be blamed for any trauma you suffer by reading further.
The Rock is a Cambridge sports pub. Still bolted over the main entrance to the venue is a rigid, commercially produced, full-colour banner. The banner promotes The Rock’s comprehensive Sky Sports coverage and has obviously been distributed nationally to pubs paying Murdoch’s extortionate satellite subscription rates. In capital letters, running along the centre of this banner, is the following slogan:
WERE PAYING—THERE PLAYING—YOUR WATCHING
…and weeping.
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Rupert Murdoch used a minion to get my boss fired. Alrighty, so in hindsight he had some major screw-ups with the SEC (and with the whole business-plan), and his girlfriend CFO was a huge old-lady-in-miniskirt embarrassment, but we didn’t need the TV-Guide inside-out takeover move - those people are just a bunch of nitwit haircuts in-makeup, practicing to be on the tube. We had a working guide that they never did.
So I don’t know if I’m glad because he was a bad boss, or sad because the haircuts shut-down the eBook group where I moved to escape an even worse manager…
Haha, that’s brilliant! Let the pedants revolt!
IM APALED!
Agh. I know Cambridge fairly well - where is The Rock?!
It’s on Cherry Hinton Road, east of Perne Road—worth taking your digital camera to.
That’s even more irritating than the little shop on the corner of City Road in Cardiff, the sign outside of which reads: “BAGUETTS.”
What about me? I hate bad grammar and I’ve been your loyal typo fixer for “like, forever dude”!
In CAMBRIDGE?!
This would seem to confirm (if there is anyone who needs it confirming) the thesis that we live in ‘two nations’. Or it might just have been a p*ssed signwriter.
It was probably some wretched sales promotion agency that was responsible. Ad agencies are fastidious places and the wonky grammar would have been picked up at proof stage.
What all you snarky clevercloggs seem to have overlooked is that the sign was meant to publicise the pub. I’d say mission accomplished.
Cambridge, eh? I always knew the Other Place was better..
Damm, dat’s wurs den how dem kajuns do spelin’
Wow, i’m not the best at grammar and punctuation, but that is abysmal.
I feel the pain too, but to expand the topic, why do we persist with illogical spelling?
English has become the world’s choice for international communication; millions of non-native speakers are learning it. Would it not be better to have a thorough revision of the language so that we have consistent and simpler spelling.
Text-speak is pointing the way, 2 bd if tht mks u pdnts sck.
The banner is described prominently in The Times today, six years on. It will live forever. Photo at http://t.co/Q0gYro2 by the way.