March 20, 2005
Get your music sting cued up
For those of you interested in hearing more about the quirks of Poland Spring packaging, I bring you another report.
On the side of the plastic wrapper that encases all the little bottles of Poland Spring is this context-free legend, which presumably is meant to call attention to your ability to get Poland Spring stocked in your vending machines if that's your bag, but instead sounds like the tag line from the lamest horror movie ever, in which some mad scientist creates an undead monster -- a monster whose only dream is to own a store.
It vends! IT VEEEEEEENDS!!!!
Posted by Francis at 10:48 PM | TrackBackInteresting . . . if they think that the item within a vending machine does the vending, what do they think the machine does? Granted, the rowing machine doesn't do the rowing. (But the sewing machine *does* do the sewing. Hey, sounds like lost lyrics from a Paul McCartney and Wings album.) Or maybe "vending" is a word like the transitive form of "kissing", which can apply reciprocally to both parties at once: "The shiny new machine was happily vending bottles of Poland Springs water. 'It feels so good to vend you like this,' said one of the bottles to the machine." [from Best Inanimate Erotica 2004].
Posted by: Jonathan Caws-Elwitt at March 21, 2005 08:28 AMYeah, it's a weird verb usage, all right. Maybe they thought "It is vended" sounded too Biblical.
Posted by: Francis at March 21, 2005 08:55 AMInteresting . . . if they think that the item within a vending machine does the vending, what do they think the machine does? Granted, the rowing machine doesn't do the rowing. (But the sewing machine *does* do the sewing. Hey, sounds like lost lyrics from a Paul McCartney and Wings album.) Or maybe "vending" is a word like the transitive form of "kissing", which can apply reciprocally to both parties at once: "The shiny new machine was happily vending bottles of Poland Springs water. 'It feels so good to vend you like this,' said one of the bottles to the machine." [from Best Inanimate Erotica 2004].
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