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"After all, it's not as if it's been cast in stone" is a favourite phrase of lazy dead-metaphor users, often CEOs. Unfortuately, when it comes to window-glass-engraving, it might as well be "cast in stone".
If you walk up from Charing Cross Station with St Martin's In The Fields on your left, past the marvellous sculpture of Oscar Wilde (quote engraved in marble; "all of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars") then you pass a recently opened sports memorabilia store, presumably planned to cash in on World Cup fever/fervour. The glass here refers to "memorbilia", which is a bit of a bummer. I can't believe that the store owners haven't noticed it. But I guess that 12-foot square plate glass doesn't come cheap.
Then the café/takeaway next door to the office re-opened after a face-lift and expansion, booting the dry-cleaners to a new shop down a side street.
Not only does this café sell sandwiches, but apparently it also does "baggetts", or so the plate glass engraving informs me. I'm not sure whether they do croissants but, if they do, I suspect that it's a good idea that they chose not to advertise the fact on glass.
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I've often felt that they should produce a computer version of Real Tennis, partly because, with all the fiddly bits involved in the game it is far more suited to a computer version than the boredom of lawn tennis. However, my main motive for wanting to see a computer version of Real Tennis is that you could call it "virtual real tennis", thus creating another oxymoron, one of my favourite quirks of the English language.
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If you walk up from Charing Cross Station with St Martin's In The Fields on your left, past the marvellous sculpture of Oscar Wilde (quote engraved in marble; "all of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars") then you pass a recently opened sports memorabilia store, presumably planned to cash in on World Cup fever/fervour. The glass here refers to "memorbilia", which is a bit of a bummer. I can't believe that the store owners haven't noticed it. But I guess that 12-foot square plate glass doesn't come cheap.
Then the café/takeaway next door to the office re-opened after a face-lift and expansion, booting the dry-cleaners to a new shop down a side street.
Not only does this café sell sandwiches, but apparently it also does "baggetts", or so the plate glass engraving informs me. I'm not sure whether they do croissants but, if they do, I suspect that it's a good idea that they chose not to advertise the fact on glass.
+++++++++
I've often felt that they should produce a computer version of Real Tennis, partly because, with all the fiddly bits involved in the game it is far more suited to a computer version than the boredom of lawn tennis. However, my main motive for wanting to see a computer version of Real Tennis is that you could call it "virtual real tennis", thus creating another oxymoron, one of my favourite quirks of the English language.
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