This needs to go with the deli sign that asked, “how do you top your sub?”.

This is now officially a thread for things that make fanficcers stop and blink

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i don’t want to reblog this but i genuinely want to read more examples so

May I present:

This monstrosity

Every time I see the title of this TV show on the program guide I do a double-take

My humble contributions

My Twinkies Halloween edition

…

I’ve had this saved on my phone for like a year and I just …

Call out post for literally everyone I know and also me.

I will never be over needing to reset my password on my Prime account only to be granted my OTP.

My One True Password.

I died.

I honestly can’t decide what’s better: that normal people came up with this as an entirely innocuous metaphors, or someone knew exactly how this could be taken and went with it

My headcanon: this was someone who knew what they were doing and was like, “Let’s see if I can get this past corporate.”

And that AT LEAST ONE person at corporate was like “…wait.”

But they COULDN’T SAY ANYTHING because then they’d have to explain WHY they KNEW.

But the corporate person and the ad pitcher just locked eyes across the room.

And they knew.

They both knew.

And they knew that they knew.

Some years later, they’re still together.

As someone having to deal with marketing on a daily basis: No, they didn’t know.

There maybe were some chaos-goblins in the graphics department laughing like maniacs while doing the visuals (at least that’s what I do), but they didn’t put a stop to it, because … well, not their job and no harm done!

Don’t you ruin my headcanon!

so - story time.  The grocery store where I work has this massively annoying coupon kiosk near the check-out lanes.  It’s annoying because its vocal and plays the same three ads over and over all day long.  We cashiers hate getting stuck near it because you get the ‘av - ah - cadosfromMeXICO!’ jingle stuck in your head for days afterward.  Anyway, for some reason, one of the ads decided ‘its time to grill and chill!’ was the way to go.  Knowing what ‘netflix and chill’ really means, we cashiers got a couple snickers out of it and then promptly turned it into background noise.

Anyway - I’m checking through this tiny little bird of an old lady, thick glasses, teeny tiny, white fluff hair and the store hits one of those weird moments when the constant noise level just drops off into almost nothing and at that exact moment, the coupon kiosk decides to cheerfully announce:

“It’s time to Grill and Chill!”

I watched this little woman’s eyes go wide behind her glasses, she shot me a quick look, we locked eyes -

and she giggled.

It was, and still is, one of the highlights of my entire working career.