Truth in advertising?

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Not only an honest description, they spelt 'dough' correctly!
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Smite smote smitten

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Above is a headline on The Age website this morning.

Didn't seem right, somehow. Smitten to me is all puppy-love, doe-eyed and gooey.

I obviously wasn't the only one to point this out to The Age because, later in the day, it changed:



At least now it makes sense.
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Um...ok.

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Is it just me, or is "Aim Hire" an odd name for a porta-loo?
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Lost for words

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Embiggen?

Have I missed the arrival of a new word in the language?
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Bipolar Bear

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Six is not bad. Seven is better.

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Was in at the chemist's today (Pharmacy, drug store, you work it out.) and fronted to the counter to put in a prescription.

The conversation went something like this:

Sweet thing: How are you today?

Me: Good. How about yourself?

Sweet thing: Not too bad.

Me: (thinks) OK. That means what?

Me: (Asks) OK. If Bad is a 3 and Good is a 10, where are you on that scale?

Sweet thing: Uh...6.

Me: Excellent! That's above the national average!

I go off and do some shopping for dinner tonight and then return to pick up the prescription.

Sweet thing: Hi! How are you?

Me: Good, thank you. Yourself?

Sweet thing: I'm a seven now!

Me: It's been a good morning for all of us then.

(scene fades...)
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Language difficulties

In our travels in Peru we stopped at one restaurant that offered "Donkey with cheese".

Turned out to be a technically correct, but gastronomically loose, translation of Burrito.

But in a country that eats Guinea Pigs, you never know.
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