Fail Blog

My nephew, Zack, intro­duced me to Fail Blog. A friend gave him the book for his birth­day. I noticed it on his desk and he told me about it, even let me take it home to read it this week. (I do have to make sure the post-it notes from his friend stay on the book though, that was an impor­tant point).

Fail Blog is about peo­ple notic­ing their sur­round­ings, signs that con­flict each other (like a sign on a bus say­ing to use ham­mer to break glass in an emer­gency and a com­ple­men­tary sign say­ing to break the glass to use the ham­mer), mis­takes in spelling that change the mean­ing of a sign, con­struc­tion that doesn’t make sense (like a dri­ve­way to the garage that doesn’t con­nect to the gate com­ing from the road), failed prod­ucts (like cook­ies say­ing they have dou­ble the choco­late chips but in the bag you find a cookie that has only one sin­gle choco­late chip), sar­casm (like the guy who taped his stereo remote to a hand­made sign left for who­ever stole the rest of the stereo set). I’m sure you get the idea now. Not the Dar­win Awards, more like the sar­cas­tic, the ironic and the con­fused (a lot like the Dar­win Awards but with more pho­tos ver­sus news reports).

You’ve seen some­thing, some where, some time that would fit into Fail Blog. Maybe you kept it to your­self. Maybe you just told a friend or two. But, did you take a photo? Why not share your photo on the blog?

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