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New and Improved!
It may be new but it doesn't mean that it's improved.
<cough>New Coke</cough>
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Or "New, improved, original recipe" If it is the original recipe then it is unchanged so is not ne or improved.
Salt and Vinegar Crisps: No Preservatives (sorry - what do they think salt or vinegar is?)
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Visiting a friend running an ice cream stand, I laughed at his cans of pineapple ice cream topping (actually, I never tasted pineapple topping on ice cream, but apparently there is a market for it), marked 'New improved formula!' The contents declaration read: 'Crushed pineapple, sugar, water'. What is there to make any great new 'improved formula' in crushed pineapple, sugar and water?
My friend took my reaction as a grave insult. Maybe they had removed something. Maybe the amount of sugar was changed. Who was I to pretend to know anything about how to make a pineapple soft ice topping?
Oh well. I caved in and left him with his confidence that there had been a real improvement in the formula of that ice cream topping, of great significance to his ice cream stand.
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Publicly announced shrinkflation: Smaller pack - same great taste!
In my opinion, for quite a lot of cheese, 'Best before' should be replaced with 'Best after' (without changing the date).
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As shown on TV
(I never owned a TV set. And if I did: So what?)
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The BIG lie
This item is in 10 peoples cart
ONLY 3 remain available
REVISIT the link 1 hour latter
same message with the same stats
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For a limited time only...
Jeremy Falcon
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In Norway, we see a marked price rise six weeks before Black Friday. If you claim some "Before" price, "Now only xxx", that "Before" price must have been effective for at least six weeks. So for Black Friday, they can claim a significant discount, down to the ordinary, year-around prices.
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You call a service center at 04:00, and are served an automatic answering message:
"We are sorry, but at this moment we have an extraordinary amount of customers calling in, causing as very high traffic. Please be patient."
Please be patient while we try to wake up that customer service guy - he is sleeping heavily! When you get that same message (and 20 minutes waiting time) whether you call at 10:00, 14:00, 20:00, 22:00, 04.00 or 08:00, I begin loosing my faith in that 'extraordinary' number of customer requests that they claim to have.
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Same thing with the government. The message should say "We're sorry, our workers are grabbing some coffee and don't want to answer. Deal with it."
Jeremy Falcon
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Surimi, the taste-like-crab fish product, was for many years sold in Norway as 'crab sticks' - the English term.
After it became popular, some manufacturers started selling then as 'krabbepinner' - 'krabbe' = 'crab', 'pinner' = 'sticks'.
They were fined, because the product contains zero percent crab, and they had to stop marketing it as 'krabbepinner'. So they market it as 'crab sticks' - that is accepted.
Note that approx. 99.9% of all Norwegians from 12 years up understand English quite well. (The percentage knowing what 'surimi' is, is far lower  )
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For several decades, Pepsodent toothpaste was marketed (at least in Norway) as "With irium".
In my childhood, I used a different toothpaste (with fluoride), but I remember friends arguing in favor of Pepsodent, as it was with irium.
When 'truth in marketing' became stronger, the manufacturers of Pepsodent were pressed on this 'irium'. They had to admit that it was their name for water. The marketing trick was that they had never claimed that Pepsodent was the only toothpaste with 'irium', and they had never claimed that 'irium' had any particular properties - only that Pepsodent contained 'irium'. Contained water. That was an indisputable truth.
In the HiFi world you see a huge amount of terms, usually as three- or four-letter abbreviations, used to prove the quality of the product. I have actually been thrown out of a stereo shop because I laughed right into the face of a salesman: That is bullshit - show me what connections that amplifier has! That's what I care about. He refused to: If you deny that this and this and this is essential to the sound quality, then I have no amplifier to sell you! ... I left the store with a big laugh.
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Non-stick
laser powered
eco-friendly
all natural
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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But wait, there's more!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Making up a mere part of a method signature? (9)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Parameter ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You are up Monday!
When I noticed that "parameter" / "a mere part" are anagrams, I couldn't resist. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's why I try to avoid anagrams( with some success  ), they always get solved.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I saw 'mere part of' ... 'signature' and instantly thought 'gnat' - it is small and a part of the word signature. Then I read the (9) 
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Being on the other side of the pond, it's days like today make me wish these were not solved before I wake up.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I actually solved this one, so it must have been easy.
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Wordle 545 3/6
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 545 6/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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It's all in the starter word!
Wordle 545 2/6
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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