The Dumb Dodo Thread

[sadchild]

The real apology should be for referring to this monstrosity

 

[scotchandcigar]

To be clear, this is not about politics. This article - and others like it - was posted on May 8, one day after the motorcade.

Trump drives across Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to inspect blue coating he's adding

President Donald Trump on Thursday went on an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls “American flag blue.”

www.pbs.org

 

[Channel98]

Would that be the same dumb dodo who is marketing a gold-plated cell phone with an image of an American flag that has only 11 stripes instead of 13?

 

[sadchild]

You mean the one made in China?

 

[Channel98]

是的，就是这个.

The phones were initially (and falsely) marketed as "Made in the U.S.A." They now have a sticker that says "Assembled in the U.S.A."

 

[HecticArt]

Would that be the same dumb dodo who is marketing a gold-plated cell phone with an image of an American flag that has only 11 stripes instead of 13?

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As a common graphic design convention, the words are supposed to be the thirteenth stripe.
I don't think that it's done very successfully in this case.

 

[Channel98]

From the Collins Dictionary:

"stripe, noun: a relatively long band of distinctive color or texture that differs from the surrounding material or background."

No further questions, your honor.

 

[HecticArt]

I wasn’t asking.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Would that be the same dumb dodo who is marketing a gold-plated cell phone with an image of an American flag that has only 11 stripes instead of 13?

My post was about the reflecting pool - currently in the news; and the fact that a bunch of 10-ton vehicles drove over the uncured paint. It wasn't an invitation to just start posting other dumb stuff about the same person.

 

[sadchild]

But here in the land of the free, we CAN post other dumb stuff

 

[Channel98]

I wonder if we will ever find out which dumb dodo was responsible for this. But look at all the free publicity the impersonator is getting!

CNN apologizes for mistakenly airing photo of Dolly Parton impersonator in report on late singer

CNN Apologizes for Mistakenly Airing Photo of Dolly Parton Impersonator in Report on Late Singer

CNN apologized to the family of Dolly Parton after incorrectly showing a photo on the air of a Dolly Parton tribute artist instead of the famed country singer herself.

variety.com