Mask We Have Fail (Updated)

Posted May 11, 2009, 11:44 p.m.

As submitted to the English Fail Blog (I’ll link to it if they choose to publish it), this sign I saw in my local CVS drug store really made me scratch my head.

“MASK WE HAVE!” it says. “HAVE MASK .99 FOR ONE[,] 25.00 FOR A CASE.”

What mask[s]? And what language was this written in?

I am tempted to ask for a case of the mask they have [?], but on the other hand I’m a little afraid to find out what they’re talking about. Are these anti-swine-flu masks, or used Hillary Clinton Halloween masks, or Israeli gas masks? I’m so confused!

Updated 5/12/2009: This photo has been featured in the English Fail Blog here.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

Democracy is a sort of laughing gas. It will not cure anything, perhaps, but it unquestionably stops the pain.

It was the countercultural force of Christian sexuality that overturned the pagan world’s dehumanizing practices.

No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone’s permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.

I tell you I have been misquoted everywhere, and the inaccuracies are chasing me round the world.

Most men are not untrue, but they are afraid. Most of the errors of public life . . . come not because men are morally bad, but because they are afraid of somebody.

How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know.

Accept disgrace willingly. Accept misfortune as the human condition.

[The early Christians] willingly died for their ‘conspiracy.’ Nothing proves sincerity like martyrdom.

To me the nations who have legalized abortion, they are the poorest nations.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

If every man had faith, we would need no more laws. . . .

In every group of intimidated people, each thinks ‘I will rebel,’ but each waits for the others.

A person who denies even one article of our faith could not be a Catholic; for truth is one and we must accept it whole and entire or not at all.

Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you. Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn’t.

On the other hand . . . you have different fingers.

If you’re using a biased instrument, it doesn’t matter how many measurements you take—you’re aiming at the wrong target.

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