Showing posts with label Vice-Commodore Pugwash. Show all posts
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Monday, 30 November 2015

Double-take, # 199

Vice Commodore Pugwash spotted this notice by a fire alarm at the Defence Academy, and is justly amazed by ‘glass which knows who is authorised to break it!’

Only authorised persons able to break glass

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Multimangle, # 21

The third and final day of mangles spotted by Vice-Commodore Pugwash at the National Defence Academy, Shrivenham. At least the relentless capitalization has been dropped, presumably because this is information rather than instruction:

Monday’s for Mondays; Friday’s for Fridays

Monday, 29 June 2015

Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 188

A pair of instructions from the walls of the National Defence Academy, Shrivenham, submitted by Vice-Commodore Pugwash:


faulty for faulty; [any for a]; [syntax]; comma for full stop

Sunday, 28 June 2015

Double-take, # 162

Vice-Commodore Pugwash spotted this in the Officers’ Mess at the National Defence Academy, Shrivenham:

will incur costs of which will be added; colon