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A peek into the stationary cupboard

by loiswakeman @ 30 Mar. 2007 - 17:07:16

If you are going to make a spelling error, probably best not to put it on your home page in yellow caps on a purple background!

going nowhere fast

JCG Computers: the company that's going nowhere?

Other useful resources from the company:

http://www.jcgonline.co.uk - the world's sorriest blog (click the categories and you'll see why)

http://uwig.jcgonline.co.uk - good text for practising your proof-reading and grammatical skills (well, perhaps not on a Friday afternoon...)

Wonky saying of the week

by loiswakeman @ 12 Mar. 2007 - 15:22:38

"Like Marie Antoinette, they want to have their cake and eat it" - Ed Vaizey MP, commenting on the Lib Dem policy on Trident on The Westminster Hour, BBC Radio 4 yesterday

Makes a change from a mixed metaphor I suppose: a cack-handed conflation of the saying "You can't have your cake and eat it", and the erroneous - but commonly-held - belief that Marie Antoinette said "Let them eat cake" when told that the French poor could not afford bread.

A shame he couldn't have worked in a reference to the famous Cake episode of Brass Eye as well! Still, he seems like a cheery chappy, so perhaps it was a joke.