Seen on an advertisement card found in magazines. At first glance, a misuse of parentheses.

Maybe there’s some hidden subtext? The sentence without the parentheses reads “The most culture can buy”. Maybe the authors are hinting that there’s no point being cultured because all you get is a subscription to “Cheap Eats”.

As an (interesting) aside of (useless) trivia, these advertisement cards are called “blow-in” cards because they are blown in to magazines.

This is where Groupon fails. I do NOT want to know that there are 189 other couples about to have the same experience.

While we are generally fans of that phrase, for a site named chickenmonkeydog, the phrase “let the cat out of the bag” seems ill matched.

Can you help us think of a more appropriate phrase which means the same thing, for us to use around chickenmonkeydog?

Para contactar Kellogg’s con preguntas o comentarios acerca de los Corn Flakes por favor llama por teléfono. Tus comentarios escritos en Español no pueden ser leídos, pero con gusto te atenderán por teléfono en tu idioma.

As you can see in the diagram above, we’re seeking input on what we should call the convergence of happiness and unhappiness. What would you call the overlap of these two opposites?

When collecting up some clothes from the dry cleaner, I laughed out loud when I read what I was picking up. I’ll leave it you to imagine what the garment looked like.

So today’s post is more of a game: Can you come up with the world’s worst brand name for the following items?

Just to get you started off, one idea I had for bottled water was “Dysentery”

• Shirts
• Bread
• Chocolate
• Milk
• Underwear
• Pencils
• Laptop
• Restaurant
• Department store
• Car
• Toothpaste

Obviously, we at CMD would never presume to limit your creativity so if there are other items and brand names that you think of, please do share.

An engineer, I understand that some problems require an awful lot of math to resolve.

That said, passing by an empty classroom the other day I saw six chalkboards full of math and I stopped for a moment to be grateful that my day-to-day life NEVER requires that much calculation for anything.

How much math is too much math?

I came across this interesting sign and got very confused over what the real English translation might be:

Pooh? Please pooh here? Squat here? There is a stool for you to sit on inside? It’s definitely open to interpretation!

Seen on the back of a bottle for pet stain remover. The label starts off routinely: “Directions” then “Cautions”. But underneath that, the makers included a special set of “Common Sense Cautions”.

What does this mean?!? Does it mean that you need common sense to understand these warnings? Or maybe the first caution is not common sense and only understood by those with advanced IQ’s?