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Cautiously worded

Cautiously worded

Translation: The spreadsheets you want to delete might contain data. Press Delete to really delete them.

Dear Excel 2007,

firstly I only want to delete one spreadsheet, and secondly it’s damn obvious that it contains data – no need to say it that carefully.


Dear Mr Piece

Master Piece Lyoner

Dear Mr Piece,

even though your sausage doesn’t taste bad, I think you really could do without monosodium glutamate as flavor enhancer (and some added colorants) as well as the silly blank in the name (“Meister Stück” = “Master Piece” instead of “Meisterstück” = “masterpiece”).

(Dec.2008)