If you want to know what happened to all the inmates from the asylums look no further than the Tuesday Free Ads supplement
enclosed with The Star.Those guys are running this magazine.
Want to buy a mattress?Then forget the Bedding section -just look under Aerials and Satellite classification.Also in that section you can locate a three-seater settee and a foot spa.Obvious isn't it.
And where would you look for a fish tank or water pump.Yes you're right -that's under "18th Birthday".
Last month the loopy compilers did even better.They created
a section almost unheard of in classified advertising entitled
"Firewood" -and yes -you've guessed it they featured ads for a
Peugeot roof bar -and that unwanted footbath.
Thank god these folk are not compiling the Obituaries.
:loopy:

Yeah, you get what you pay for.....

It's the obituaries that bother me; especially when they don't ryhme, but are meant to! Grrr :rant:

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
It's the obituaries that bother me; especially when they don't ryhme, but are meant to! Grrr :rant:

K x

One of the best typing errors I ever saw was in the Star obituaries. It should have read, "A dear, dear Dad" but actually read, "A dear dead Dad"!

But I agree with Bazzo, the Free-ads is rubbish. I always take it out and bin it straight away now.

Originally posted by RoyalRegular
One of the best typing errors I ever saw was in the Star obituaries. It should have read, "A dear, dear Dad" but actually read, "A dear dead Dad"!

But I agree with Bazzo, the Free-ads is rubbish. I always take it out and bin it straight away now.

I used to work with a woman who in a previous job sold advertising space for a Leeds local paper.

She once had to answer a complaint from a woman who had paid for an obituary for her husband, and had chosen to write her own poem. The last two lines should have read

We'll be together, once again,
I'll meet you on the Heavenly Lane

Unfortunately someone's typing skills weren't too good and it got printed as

We'll be together, once again,
I'll meet you on the Headingly Lane!

The customer wasn't a happy bunny....it made me smile though :D

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
It's the obituaries that bother me; especially when they don't ryhme, but are meant to! Grrr :rant:

K x

Why do you read them?!? You're not one of those people who turn up at strangers funerals just to cadge free sandwiches are booze are you? :o :o

Originally posted by Zamo
Why do you read them?!? You're not one of those people who turn up at strangers funerals just to cadge free sandwiches are booze are you? :o :o

If I wake up feeling rough, I always check last night's Star's obituaries to check my names not there!

Good idea about the free food and booze though! :thumbsup:

K x