Thursday, January 12, 2006

Misanthropy pt. 1

1. Exclusive to The Mill Liquorsave - the "Beer Ball": 800 ml of fresh beer in a convenient ball-shaped bottle.

Uh, since when the fuck was a ball-shaped bottle convenient?

2. Arobake. (In case you can't read it, the text on the bottom of the sign reads "Nearly all cultures believe that a Ladybird is lucky!")

And I imagine that most of those cultures also believe that putting wack faux-mysterious gobbledegook on your shop's signage is stoopid and tasteless.

If you only spent more time learning how to make bagels properly; now, that would be lucky - for everyone.

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3 comments:

Kate Borrell said...

I’m guessing the whole ladybird thing is them trying to be like that bakery in The Insiders Guide to Love (Labour of Loaf).

s. said...

Naaaaah... Arobake's been rocking that sign for as long as they've been in their new spot, which is at least four years.

Yes. That's how long it's been bugging me.

Kate Borrell said...

Weird - maybe the sign was the inspiration for the writer!

Inspiration comes from many strange places as well as the banal. ;)