17 August 2005

Of Englishmen and Mad Dogs

Seen, in today's ST, on page 12 of the Home section, an advertisement:

Prime Freehold Land
Central Bangkok

For Sale

On the instructions of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland, we are seeking preliminary expressions of interest in the acquisition of 14,000 sq.m. of Prime Freehold Land fronting Ploenchit Road Bangkok.

They decided to use the official name of the UK and still got it wrong? This notice, then, is less credible than the Engrishy Nigerian scam emails.

Filed under: Ad agency needs better editors, Bangkok property scams

2 comments:

akikonomu said...

There's a big difference between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland. I'm not even sure if the second country exists =)

Anonymous said...

Now surely this is just being a bit pedantic...