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  • How to win friends and influence people (not)

    Dear our friend,

    Our site - http://www.4idiotsUSAsindrome.com

    If others can do it, why not you?

    FatLoss4Idiots program helps you to lose weight and it does that in the most healthy-way, unlike other fad diets in the market.

    So, it has a fair chance of working for you as well, but, only if you are 100% dedicated to follow the diet - and if you don't get bored of it.

    I have tried many diets, this one offers immediate results, which is motivating and keeps you going.

    I hope I can finish the 11 days this time."

    So, go visit http://www.4idiotsUSAdiee.com if you have made up your mind to buy it.

    Here's to you,
    communicationarts.co.uk Lord

    Apart from the terrible grammar - which is only to be expected, why insult people you want to buy your scammy products by calling them idiots, and admitting that it's a fad, however unintentionally? I expect whatever it is does 'keep you going' - to the bog. I hope they catch something nasty off the seat...

  • Emanate and - erm - what?

    Hot on the heels of the last post, another misplaced word, except I am not sure quite what the writer meant.

    "Microsoft has developed BlueTrack - the world's most advanced tracking technology - and added it to the new Explorer Mouse. Remarkably, it works on virtually any surface...

    BlueTrack technology works by emanating the light off the surface it's moving over. High-angle, imaging optics generate an exact replica of the surface, enabling it to respond instantly to your hand movement, wherever you are" - from a Microsoft business mailing

    To emanate, in the sense I think they mean, means to radiate or send out - as in "the oven emanates heat when the door is open". But I am not sure what the marketing genius who wrote the above means: I don't think you can emanate off anything. Suggestions on a postcard please.

    And from the same pages "Welcome to a world of easecheese, with BlueTrack™ Technology. Only available from Microsoft, this new tracking technology allows you to use a mouse on virtually any surface" - sorry, I made that up

  • Flout and flaunt

    "... they will be aimed at those who deliberately flaunt the law" - Tim Hill from Eversheds LLP, interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today programme

    Mr Hill was being interviewed about new more stringent sentences being introduced today for breaches (not breeches!) of health and safety legislation. One might hope that someone as presumably educated as a lawyer would have a better grasp on English vocabulary.

    Flaunt means to show off or parade, often outrageously. Lawyers might flaunt their wealth, for example.

    Flout means to defy convention, ignore the law etc. Criminals flout the law on a daily basis.

  • Adults only...

    In anticipation of the introduction of cinema-style age classifications for web sites by the Culcher Sekerterry, I decided to be ahead of the trend and announce my rating now.

    This blog is 18 rated and is not suitable for those raised on a 3-second attention span, reality TV and txtspk. Contains mild irony, occasional strong sarcasm, possibly perplexing metaphor, and light litotes. Future editions may also include any or all of these dangerously erudite figures of speech:

    Anadiplosis
    Antimetabole
    Aphorism
    Chiasmus
    Epanadiplosis
    Epanalepsis
    Epistrophe
    Epizeuxis
    Hyperbole
    Meiosis
    Oxymoron
    Pleonasm
    Polyptoton
    Simile
    Zeugma

    (no, I don't know what they all are without looking them up! But if I had a flock of chickens, that's what I might call them.)

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