Comments on: Consignment Shop

By: Mike (Wally) Cocke

Mike (Wally) Cocke — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:16:28 +0000

The voices in my head are getting louder….

Where clothes? There clothes! Their clothes are there! They are, even!

By: Mike (Wally) Cocke

Mike (Wally) Cocke — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:07:36 +0000

Closets to full, turbines to speed, batteries to power…

Oh, wait –
Closets TOO full!

By: lillian

lillian — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:34:15 +0000

This sign is a Wordsplosion buffet. There are so many errors I hardly knew where to look first. Thank you, Mark and Sara, for this site.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:01:19 +0000

That fractional cents error is too frequent.

By: Noob Saibot

Noob Saibot — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:47:40 +0000

Ye maths are right. Ye olde sign maker is clever.

Sign maker’s cunning calculation:
(0.20¢/cloth_pound) * (1$/100¢) = 0.002$/cloth_pound
Thus,
(0.002$/cloth_pound) * (2000 cloth_pound / cloth_ton) = 4$/cloth_ton

A more ethical approach:
(20¢/cloth_pound) * (1$/100¢) = 0.2$/cloth_pound
Thus,
(0.2$/cloth_pound) * (2000 cloth_pound / cloth_ton) = 400$/cloth_ton

[BTW, units follow quantity for math problems; so, don't nail me on that.]

By: Les

Les — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:58:01 +0000

Apostrophes can be abused by omission:

“Well even pick it up”

Somewhere, there’s an apostrophe sobbing quietly to itself because of that sentence…

By: Allanimal

Allanimal — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:41:39 +0000

Unless I’m doing my math wrong, at that rate, one would get a mere $4 per ton of clothes.

Ooops, I mean “…a ton of cloths !!”

This sign really makes my eyes hurt.

By: Noob Saibot

Noob Saibot — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:10:09 +0000

Jeez, even 50 Cent gets it right! Oh, wait…

By: GuanoLad

GuanoLad — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:34:33 +0000

At least they didn’t spell it “cloths”.

By: Naked Bunny with a Whip

Naked Bunny with a Whip — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:08:49 +0000

“.20 CENTS” should be “20 CENTS”

You’re making an assumption. ^^