Due to my line of work, I always get a secret chuckle when I come across professional writing that is particularly bad. The best is product literature from a foreign company that opted not to have a fluent English speaker review their materials. But then a co-worker brought in an especially lovely piece of work from her box of discount tupperware. The writing on this was not too bad, just a few misspellings and missing words, but the illustrations were, well, beyond description. Take this one for example:
At first I thought that this must have been created by an engineer (no insult intended to the engineers in my life), but then I flipped the page over and saw this:
Yes, Virginia, there is extra-terrestrial life, and the aliens happen to be interned in a labor camp in North Korea making discount tupperware.
Hilarious!!
ReplyDeleteThat hand totally creeps me out.
John and I couldn't stop laughing at this! What a horrific illustration!!! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteExcellent. I can't stop chuckling. Marc's gotta see this.
ReplyDeleteHuh. The extra-terrestrials must be engineers.
ReplyDeleteWe bought a clearanced fire truck set for Ezra once that was apparently made in China. The box was littered with sayings like "Will give you infinite pleasure." I can't believe we didn't take a picture! HI-larious!