The years of UCal budget cuts are working! ("sign-up")

[Dan Goncharoff]

Could it have been High Power Steam Cleaning, which makes a little more
sense? How were the words spread across the rear doors?
DanG


On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Brian Hitchcock <brianhi at skechers.com>wrote:

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> And speaking of service trucks:  this morning I saw a window-cleaning van
> with the phrase ~High Steam Power Cleaning~ emblazoned across its back
> doors.  Perhaps they specialize in tall buildings? More likely their steam
> is under high pressure; i.e. ~High-Pressure Steam Cleaning~  (Yes, I
> realize this is not relevant linguistically to the original topic, but
> it's another typical example of garbled syntax and lack of hyphenation in
> public advertising.)
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> BWH             Torrance, CA
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