Saturday, October 20, 2007

and when we say "new"


Really new
Originally uploaded by mirthmobile
Spotted this sign getting off of I-94 in Detroit. The mattress is listed as "new" and "in" plastic. I'm guessing that this Pillow-top beauty is actually "in" this person's wet stanky garage next to - rather than "in" - some plastic.

10 comments:

  1. Eeeew! Who knows what the mattress is "in?"

    This blog is hysterical.

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  2. Maybe they're trying to make sure we know it's "in" plastic, meaning in a bag, not actually sealed into a single layer of plastic.

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  3. EWWWW... lol this blog is great!

    http://randallrocksblog.blogspot.com/

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  4. oh my- what a great blog idea. seeing quotations marks used incorrectly has always made me "crazy." ha ha!

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  5. That's a term of art. "New" means stolen.

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  6. This is my new favorite blog. :)

    I noticed a couple of these are in Michigan...is that where you're from?

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  7. I grew up in Michigan, Brian still lives there.

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  8. These same signs are all over the place in Baton Rouge, LA. Same price, same quotation marks and all. Interesting...

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  9. To second Sheryl, we have them in Chicago as well. Why? Where do all these surplus matresses being advertised on expressway exits come from?

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  10. I see these signs all over West Michigan as well. It just creeps me out because years ago I saw a Dateline or maybe 20-20 show on retailers who add a new cover to a USED mattress and try to sell it as (quotation marks ARE intentional this time!) "new".

    That, plus the ongoing bedbug epidemic, is quite enough to make me squirm everytime I see one of these signs, even if they DON'T have quotation marks in the wrong place!

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