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Sloganeering

Someone has put up a load of posters at work, with the slogan:

There is nothing you can do
That can’t be done

Is it me, or is there really some sort of stating the obvious thing going on there? That’s just another way of saying “You can do anything that you can do” isn’t it?

Someone was trying to be clever and it went horribly wrong. Or am I being a complete sap and missing something blindingly obvious?

Posted in General on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

11 Responses to “Sloganeering”

1. rjw on February 3rd, 2005 at 7:51 am

I think they’ve made a typo, it was meant to say

There is nothing you can do
It can’t be done

2. Simon #2 on February 3rd, 2005 at 8:34 am

Its from The Beatles – All You Need Is Love
Fool

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done.
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It’s easy.

Get them to put up some demotivators from http://www.despair.com, much better ;o)

3. Olly on February 3rd, 2005 at 11:21 am

Ah, it’ll be some sort of valnetines thing then. Quite what its got to do with work I don’t know – probably missed a memo or something :)

4. grant on February 3rd, 2005 at 7:35 pm

Is it not one of those shitty motivational posters……

5. matt on February 4th, 2005 at 9:34 am

You need posters saying:
You are despensible
Remember that.

6. Olly on February 4th, 2005 at 9:48 am

I was talking to someone in HR about the posters. Apparently I’m going to have to do a shitload of work related to it ;-)

7. matt on February 5th, 2005 at 9:21 pm

oh dear.

8. Simon#2 on February 6th, 2005 at 5:04 pm

<nelson stylee>HA HA!</nelson>

9. Stuart on February 6th, 2005 at 7:16 pm

My mind is a flowering bloom of double negatives.

10. Owen on February 10th, 2005 at 8:17 pm

Did I leave at a bad time?

11. Olly on February 10th, 2005 at 8:22 pm

No, not at all…

/me chases Owen down the road threatening to copy and paste him to death ;-)