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from this month's
Vogue Knitting (Holiday 2010, pg 34):
- If we were grading "inspirational" on the bell curve, Yarn Barn of Kansas would be at the top of the arc.
Now class, can anyone explain why the above quotation is not a "compliment" one might wish to hear?
4 comments:
Maybe that's just their polite way of judging the Yarn Barn as entirely mediocre?
(FWIW, I went once. It was a fine shop. Very cavernous. I'd go again, given the chance.)
Were they trying to pay an actual compliment? Or were they trying to say that the shop is completely average? *sigh*
A++ class! And a F to Vogue editors (who should have caught the writer's error), and what I am sure is an entirely unmerited C to Yarn Barn.
I took it as evidence of the poor quality of basic math education in this country... honestly, I have two degrees in humanities and I know better than that.
The Yarn Barn is an outlier on the 'exceptional quality' end of the curve if you ask me ;-)
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