I thought you might find this case interesting.
On our way back to north, we stopped at an inaugural Vääksy Antique Fair. A popular event from the start, as you may witness from the photo attached.
At the fair, I came across this British Airways Air Stewardess doll made by Rexard Dolls in the late Seventies - early Eighties.
What caught my eye was a couple of text passages in Latin on the backside of the box, starting with "Lorem ipsum dolor sit nonnomy..." and followed by "ullamcorpor suscipit lab..." on the lower part of the box.
Is British Airways trying to promote Latin as a high-altitude lingua franca? How odd and exciting!
Unfortunately, the answer is quite mundane - and therefore twice as exciting!
Lorem ipsum is a long textual passage of corrupted Latin, a kind of gibberish used by graphic designers as a placeholder for texts to be added later on. In other words, lorem ipsum passages should never end up in final products, as they are only indicating the place where the proper text should be added.
Ergo, the box embodies a significant lapse in quality control - a veritable lapsus linguae one could say!
Do you recall a similar case readers?
Quite unique I would think. I find these kinds of unintentional lapses or errors most interesting - and collectable too!
This last picture is from eBay showing a later, corrected edition of the box back.
Arto
Helsinki Base
That's interesting, don't remember hearing that before. Reminds me how music is sometimes temporarily dumped into a movie edit in post. Just to give the idea of what they want from the composer. Then there are a few cases where the temp music worked so well they go ahead and license it.
ReplyDeleteThat's really fascinating Baron, and all new to me. So sometimes a stand-in can be just perfect!
DeletePossibly the most famous example in SF films, is Stanley Kubrick's temp music for 2002:A Space Odyssey. Classical music was "spotted" for rough edited scenes, such as the Blue Danube for the Space Station sequence. When Alex North ("Spartacus") wrote the actual score, Stanley preferred the temp track!
DeleteAlex North reused one of his melodies for the "Dragonslayer" end sequence and the entire unused 2001 score was eventually recorded and released as a CD.
I'm familiar with the story Lewis, but I thought classical music came into scene after discarding of North's soundtrack, not before.
DeleteWell, that's one major example for sure!
Very interesting, and a great piece of detective work. Thanks for the information.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul, these kind of anomalies make this hobby rewarding for me.
DeleteMe too!
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