Sunday, March 02, 2008

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Are the word verifications getting more and more difficult to decipher? I just laughed when I got this one the other day. I tried but was unsuccessful.

Westjet had a one-day sale on Thursday with $12 flights to and from Toronto. So I tried to see if there were REALLY any $12 seats available. And there were. I logged in two travelers round trip which, if truth in advertising actually existed, would come to $48. In reality, the total as you can see was $243.68. I didn't book it. That's about what the train would cost but without the hassle of airports.

Guess who played "asslike".

16 comments:

RJ March said...

Is that anything like "assish?"

Anonymous said...

It could be Donkey like or Asinine. Ed

CoffeeDog said...

Asshole is my favorite cuss word. Sorta like asslike. Too bad you didn't have a C for asslick.

Anonymous said...

The word "asslike", as with the airline pricing is not at all surprising. The word verification codes have become nearly impossible to read and decipher, I had one this week that it took three attempts to get the comment posted. That really is asslike for the asslick that is such an asshole to make it that difficult to prove I'm a real person.

Hope you two had a wonderfully unasslike weekend.

-C

bardelf said...

You're so right about word verifications lately. The particular one that you show on today's blog honestly looks like Greek letters. LOL

Cooper said...

It took me 3 tries to get the verification right on your blog yesterday. It looked like it had been smudged in ink. It's better today.

I bet you played rips, too!

Rox said...

I like when the word verifications actually spell something like luvewe or something. I hate it when they cram two or three v's together...it's very asslike.

lattégirl said...

Last time I got a cheap flight, the extra charges and taxes were more than the flight itself!

A Lewis said...

That's precisely why I require no word verification nor approval on my comments. Not worth it. Such a hassle for my readers. And there's always some sort of gotch-a with sales. Sigh. Happy Sunday!

dantallion said...

The word verification thing - they also seem to be getting stupidly long. I mean seriously, how much security against spam do blogs really need??

GayProf said...

Is one of those letters lambda?

You know, Toronto is just a hop, skip, and jump from Midwestern Funky Town. Well, okay, if your hop, skips, and jumps take an hour each. Still, it's not that far.

anabel said...

Would "Asswipe" be acceptable?

lgdyfky - not too bad today.

Lyvvie said...

Shouldn't "asslike" have a hyphen?

Anonymous said...

Don't challenge the Scrabble king! word verification: ezfcyctk I think it's cyrillian it means Asslike. Ed

Patricia said...

those hidden fees and taxes aren't even hidden. it would make me want to boycott them altogether, but then, i'm bitter like that.

Mark in DE said...

Just the other day I noticed the same thing about the verification words. I'm not a comment-spamming machine; I'm a real person, and I often have difficulty getting the word verifications right.

Didn't they used to be 4 or 5 letters? Now they're getting to be 10 and 12 characters long. I'm about to turn mine off so as not to cause unnecessary frustration from the 3 people who comment.

Mark :-)