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That doesn’t seem right: Clorox has dangling modifier issues

I’ve been watching the Mad Men marathon on AMC today, and they’ve shown an ad for Clorox Bleach several times.  I’ve seen the ad before, but never really paid much attention to it.  Perhaps it was the effects of watching a show about advertising, but I ended up paying closer attention to it than normal and realized that, well, someone didn’t give the thought to the copy they probably should have.

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That doesn’t seem right: vintage ad edition

I honestly don’t even know what to say about this one except:

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That doesn’t seem right: news fail

So I use Bloglines to organize my RSS feeds.  Helps me keep track of the many, random websites I tend to read on any given day.  For some reason, today, it’s been glitching on me like crazy, gathering stories from various times over the last 1-2 years.

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Here are a few of the BREAKING NEWS stories my RSS feed would like me to know about:

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