Complaint: Misdemeanor placement of a comma between an adjective and a verb; printing said transgression on posters and mounting to the interior of Metropolitan Transit Authority trains; creating a creepy mental picture, with a single comma, of gorgeous skin somehow capable of looking at you.
Defendant: The ‘Board Certified’ dermatologists at 1-800-BLEMISH.
Report: Officer was sitting on a northbound A-train when he witnessed the illegally positioned comma above a seated Asian lady. Being somewhat self-conscious, the officer was forced to wait until the lady exited the train because he didn’t want to stand in front of her and take a picture.
Fine: $85; Advertising agency to be placed on probation for three months.
Brian Sack
I started Banterist in 2003 after this conversation with my cat. It led to all sorts of good things.
Or indeed the message can be read as Hey gorgeous, you’re looking skin. Maybe if President Bush fails to get re-elected he could get a job with the ad agency – after all, he already speaks their language.
They deserve an additional reprimand for the awkward(, looking) and inconsistent use of non-italicized capitals.
Then you’d have to talk to Graphic Cop.
Yeah, it was tough when the old Typesetter division was shut down to make way for the hi-tech Graphics section. It was said at the time that problems like this would arise and that nobody would look after the widows and orphans.
HA! brought to you by the people that created the
1-800-PODATRIST ads, no doubt.
who would really want to dial 1-800-blemish anyway?
No one you’d want to meet.
If Trevor McDonald made advertising, this would be his. For our friends across the pond, TM is an English newsreader who specialises in emphasizing the wrong syllables on words.
Whoever is affected by such pitiful thing is a pitiful person. It is almost a joke that we’ll step on anybody’s toes in order to feel acknowledged.