>>Not for the same reason but your message reminds me of an anecdote (true story) our form master once told us. It was about a guy giving a lecture on observation. During the course of the lecture he drifted onto the subject of urine being harmless to ingest and, to prove it, he dipped his finger in a jar of urine he had, and sucked his finger. He them passed the jar around the auditorium for everyone to have a go, which they did. When the jar had done its rounds and returned to him he got back to the original subject: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, on the subject of observation, you should have noted that I dipped my second finger in the jar but sucked my index finger"
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>Interesting annecdote. Here's one I have never forgotten.
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>In high school Distributive Education Class (marketing) our teacher said he was going to give us a little test. He then held up the playboy calendar for 30 seconds and put it down. He said, "Here's the test, what month was the calendar on?" No one knew the answer (boys or girls). He then replied with, "Never make your advertisement so interesting that the message is lost."

That's so true. There was a TV ad a year or 2 ago that was very interesting and arty. After about a week or 2 I suddenly though, "But what the hell was it advertising?". I had to concentrate a bit next time it came on.

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>Going on with the thread of odd things people say, my wife and I both have a pet peeve relating to redundant statements. Things like;
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>PIN Number (The N is for number)

Same here. Although I think, with the new PIN validation credit card m/cs everywhere now I've noticed that people are gradually being weaned off the extra "number" bit.

You probably know that I get really p*ssed off at people saying "forward slash" when giving URLs, esp. as there is no such key - it's a "slash", "solidus", "Oblique" or "stroke".

>ICU Unit (The U is for unit)

I've never heard that but I think this is drifting back to a previous post of mine about "CIA agents" :-)

>Tuna Fish (Is there any tuna that is not a fish?)

Yet curiously, at US ports' seafood restaurants, isn't "dolphin" advertised for consumption but "fish" isn't added to reassure us that it isn't our superior mammals on the plate?

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>I remember one commedian who had a line regarding tuna fish, he said "That's like saying Bacon Pig double cheese burger cow."

Shouldn't that be "Bacon Pig double cheese curdled cow lactation burger cow" ? :-)