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What do you think? Is this just today's funny? Or does this indicate that COVID-19 has already eaten their brains?
1 posted on 03/03/2020 7:03:18 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

My wife used to compose ads like this for the weekly “Penny Saver” in her home town.

We have laughed for years over the first-drafts of the supermarket ads putting “pork lion” on sale!

The people who composed the ad are the ones who screwed up - and that likely was not the dealership. I would have been more concerned if the pictured auto part was the alternator, instead of the disk “breaks”.


2 posted on 03/03/2020 7:08:04 AM PST by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You were expecting maybe literacy?


3 posted on 03/03/2020 7:11:51 AM PST by IronJack
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Cut the guy a brake, geesh.


5 posted on 03/03/2020 7:18:54 AM PST by WinMod70
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I see that mistake made frequently; even here on FR. Still a sign maker should know better. In any case the dealer is getting attention which is what they wanted. Are the techs there on a brake?


10 posted on 03/03/2020 7:29:44 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

...says the guy who misspelled the source in posting this....


11 posted on 03/03/2020 7:29:46 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Bevis and Butthead Motors

"We're just here to break stuff!"

16 posted on 03/03/2020 8:18:37 AM PST by CtBigPat (Enjoy the show! - Qanon)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

After my first “break” job ripoff back in 1986 i learned (easily) how to do it myself for something like 30 bucks instead of the $300 plus they charge.
I feel sorry for all the gullible women out there...i’ve made it a point to help many of them cheap.
Same goes to fuel pumps, water pumps, alternators, shocks, exhaust etc etc etc..
My buddy’s dad owned a gas station in 1985 and charged me 130 dollars to pullout 2 bolts and a rubber line to replace my fuel pump.
I was like WTF!!?
These rip-off artist turned me into the amateur mechanic that i am today.
You would not believe the things i have fixed with my crappy Craftsman tool set..


18 posted on 03/03/2020 8:27:19 AM PST by mowowie
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Misspelling of a key ad element often gets the reader's persistent attention, whereas the reader skips over those that are grammatically correct. I've seen this quite often in highway billboards or restaurant/motel signboards that I think are deliberate, yet do not obscure the appeal.

They sure hook into one's intense desire to mock or correct the "stupid" ad writer!

23 posted on 03/03/2020 9:00:29 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
I took these pictures in a local store a couple of months ago:

Illiterates probably shouldn't be selling books.

27 posted on 03/03/2020 10:24:32 AM PST by real saxophonist (I'll be Bach. You be Brahms. He'll be Beethoven.)
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