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Always proofread.
“lickin’ and larnin’”
Abraham Lincoln
his hand and pen.
he will be good but
god knows When
Historical note: The poem in the ad is a Lincoln original written in his math book when he was in his teens. Would you like to know more?
A bit of Inkograph history can be found here.
(I’m assuming that the “lickin’” has something to do with old-timey writing instruments to get the ink flowing, but I could be wrong. Also, I’m trying to keep things clean.)
Continue readingJust my type.
I thought I had a chance at this wonderfully odd Williams typewriter invented by John Newton Williams and the first typewriter where the typist could actually see what they just typed (Williams also invented one of the first helicopters and a 3-cylinder motorcycle). It was the first item up for auction. The typewriter went for $1,200. I did not have a chance.
And that’s why Bob in Accounting is no longer allowed to write advertising copy.
As I trudged through this rambling, convoluted bit of century-old writing, I started to hear it in the voice of Mojo Jojo (Roger L. Jackson) from The Powerpuff Girls and it suddenly became much, much better.
Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company ad found on the back cover of a 1917 Life magazine.
It still doesn’t explain the blacksmith though.
“Umm… Excuse me, but why am I even in this ad?”
Shirking Boredom with Airplane Safety Instruction Cards
On the last leg of my flight from Seattle to Bismarck, I went looking for a diversion.
This is what happened. Continue reading
When the VP of Sweaters tells you to hurry the heck up and send out that darn Target email already!
So close.
It happens to the best of us.
Whoever wrote this sublime Tumblr app update description, I bow before your greatness.
Never miss the opportunity to make something awesome.
The copy: Why do we malign bugs so? Are we not their Creators? As we crush them, do we not crush a part of ourselves? It was not weakness or failure that allowed them into this world. Nay, it was the light of innovation that we cast into the dark corners that these bugs call home. ’Twas our torches that send those bugs skittering. This update does not contain bug fixes. No! This update contains bug promises. Promises to find them a new home where each may pursue those interests most central to them.
It’s amazing how quotation marks can change the meaning of something.
Moahahahahahaha
Translation: “Until we kill you.”
Today in strangely-appropriate fortune-free fortune cookies…
Writing is a craft not an art.