Please come by canoe - Must be able to whistle

 

Try reading it out loud, I cant finish without laughing!

 

Sounds to me like the script to a skit off the Red Green show .

 

I tried to read it out loud but never found anyplace i could stop and get my breath.___

 

CL ads are a constant source of entertainment for me. Poor grammar/spelling is simply laziness in my opinion. One of my favorites is the new spelling for the word "probably"...PROLLY. I see it all the time on forums and other online posts...how difficult can it be to enunciate a 3 syllable word?

 

I'm okay with it. That's part of the charm about Craigslist. I'd rather have to wade thru their grammar wreck than there be no ad at all. Not saying that these two things have to be mutually exclusive. But, if it's gotta be perfect before you can post it, there would be a lot less trucks for sale on CL. It seems kind of odd though that the skills needed to use a computer and create a CL ad can be obtained but not a basic command of grammar school sentence construction and spelling.

 

I have to question the validity of any ad like that. Is the wording of the ad any indication of the item quality?

 

WOW !!! That Truck actually Looks to be in Good Shape...... NICE TRUCK !!!!!

 

Wow!! I prolly use PROLLY evry day on here or in a tex.

Merry Christmas All

 

Iv'e used prolly a couple times too.Maybe that guy doesn't have all his fingers or something.There we are makin' fun of a handicapped fella. Oh well.

 

How about the cat scratched some of the keys off the key board?

 

Maybe you have to have a certain # of posts before the keyboard is fully functional?

 

Or like trying to type in the dark with out my glasses on....lol

 

Same here

If you want to get a good boost of humor, go to the section of 'Cars and Trucks' for sale. Select 'all' then when the list of results appears - do a search for " RE: " (without the quote marks) that is the letters R and E then a colon. You will find people who re-post someone's ad header and then include their opinions of the vehicles they went to take a look at that were pieces of crap, misrepresented, or the sellers were whackos. Pure free entertainment right there. Of course the grammar on these posts will be quite bad typically but the raw responses are always fun to read.

Here is an example of an ad local to here:

Re: fully built turbo CRV


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I tried that search out here on the local CL but I guess that technique has not caught on here...no ads with a re-post. Seems like a good idea though, big problem locally is the shady shops advertising in the "by owner" section...really clogs up the listings with spam ads.