Is my word of the day. Basically it’s a phrase in which the last bit makes you reframe the first bit. The examples on the Wikipedia page are brilliant, and of course feature the master of the genre, Groucho Marx:
A budding (untalented) comedian or complete tool? A couple of years ago I would’ve said the former, but the latter seems more accurate these days.
Dear Pringles: I’ve been a customer for many years, and have always enjoyed and recommended your product. Most recently, I bought three tubes of Pringles – festive themed Texas BBQ at Tesco in a special 50% offer.
This may seem like an odd question, but have the tubes got smaller width wise? I am half-way through the tube and now find myself struggling to fit my hand in to obtain the Pringles. I am having to tip the container and select a portion of them – which often results in breaking and scattering.
As I say, I have always recommended your product but this incident has left a bitter taste.
Click through to read the wonderful reply from Pringles, if it’s to be believed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg
(Via Random Reflective Rantings and Damien.)
The Register: The Irish legal system has deployed the ultimate weapon in the war against inadvertent loss of confidential data – a foolproof system of outside contractors coupled to shredders which ensures that no potentially sensitive information is ever read by anyone.
In a successful test run of the new scheme last week, all of the mail delivered to Dublin’s Four Courts on Tuesday was destroyed without being opened. The Courts Service later attributed the trashing to “an outside contractor [who] mistakenly added two bags of mail to bags of documents for shredding”.
The service is now rather marvellously “asking people who may have sent post to the Four Courts in the past few days to find out whether it was received or not”, as RTÉ explains.
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