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Have you ever had trouble getting to sleep on a plane because the temperature was set too cold? South African Airways' latest bus adverts proudly show their solution to the problem.

Toasty!

Isn't being opened what doors are, ummm, for?

The people writing the covernotes for locally produced fake DVDs have their own special way of mangling the English language. Whoever wrote the cover of this disc (The Secret Society) seems to have chosen the "Yoda" option on his automatic translator program. (Click the photo for a closer look.)

If you're curious to know what the film is really about, check out the unmangled synopsis here.

In my schooldays, a visit from the "nit lady" was bad news - it meant that the teacher had found some of the pupils with headlice, and we'd all need a checkup. So I was surprised to see this advert drive past today, apparently offering 200 nits with every notebook computer.

After scratching my head (sorry!) to try and understand what they meant, a quick google showed that in these days of squeaky-clean students, Nits "is the standard which LCD manufacturers rates the brightness of their panels".  Read more »

PatriarchB and ToddlerB found this one on an expedition to the local shopping arcade.

Why be content with shampoo that only promises healthy hair, when you can demand smoothy and shinely?