Tom Scott – Man With A Mission Wrapped Up In Humour

On January 24, 2013 By David BennettIn Personal

These are just a few of the ‘warnings’ that are both hilarious and incisive and which you will find on Tom Scott’s site. There is a pdf template for you to print out your own (there are UK and US versions, and versions for other nationalities and languages).

Here’s an example referenced from his article:

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the eternal traveller

What about “WARNING The person who wrote this article really didn’t have a clue so he made it all up.” That would be the perfect tag for our local newpaper, which contains the worst gutter journalism I have ever seen. And they even do stories which they know to be totally inaccurate before they are printed. It gives journalists a bad name. I love these…they are so true.

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January 24, 2013 at 9:51 am Reply
1. David Bennett
  
  Doesn’t it just make you want to go out with a set of these and a sharpie pen for correcting the ‘news’ 😉
  
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  January 24, 2013 at 9:56 am Reply
  1. the eternal traveller
    
    Yes it does! And the other thing I want to do is write the script for TV news readers so it is all grammatically correct and written in actual sentences.
    
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    January 24, 2013 at 8:54 pm Reply
    1. David Bennett
      
      And what I want to do is to put a ‘flash’ on the screen when the BBC News reports something that sounds suspiciously as though someone of influence has had a word in their ear. I would like the screen to flash ‘From our great leader – the news from Pyongyang’
      
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      January 24, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Jennifer

Oh.My. Those are simply brilliant.

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January 24, 2013 at 6:14 pm Reply
Jennifer

Ah, and now I see who that is. He’s having a bit more than the usual 15 minutes of fame with his tumblr site on “Actual Facebook Graph Searches”. Hilarious!

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January 24, 2013 at 6:19 pm Reply
1. David Bennett
  
  Yes, and he is thereby advertising himself as someone who can help others get noticed when they want to market themselves.
  
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  January 24, 2013 at 9:09 pm Reply
timethief

Those warnings truly hilarious and there are many times I wish had a sharpie I could use on the stuff we get here.

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February 1, 2013 at 8:10 pm Reply
1. David Bennett
  
  You have just reminded me that I can wield my (digital) sharpie at the Guardian newspaper for something they had in today’s edition. 🙂
  
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  February 1, 2013 at 8:12 pm Reply
2. David Bennett
  
  Under the banner of freedom of (proper) speech, we, the sharpie brigade, demand good grammar and syntax…”
  
  How’s that sound as a rallying cry to sharpies everywhere? 😉
  
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  February 1, 2013 at 8:15 pm Reply
Rodrigo

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