Holy Days or Holidays?
Sometimes typos are almost delicious - like this sign at a cafe that mixes up 'holy days' and 'holidays''Student night every Monday! (except school holydays)I must confess that I went through a thought process before deciding that 'holydays' is not an intentional pun I'll blame the effects of the lead up to Christmas The real give-away was the text at the bottom, which I couldn't capture in my photo: 'Conditions aply'I guess this is yet another example of someone who knows a word in...
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This week I received a 'personal Christmas e-card' from a Queensland government Minister It was simply a PDF attached to an email The PDF is a single page with a photograph of the Minister, a 'best wishes' statement, and a 'Dear P&C Secretary' addressThe email was also addressed to 'Dear P&C Secretary', with this statement: 'To help conserve natural resources and protect our environment, I am sending you a personal Christmas e-card'My immediate reaction was that there's nothing very...
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