Either someone at Microsoft thought up the same thing as I did or blatantly stole it. Look at this little bugger.

Pictured are the second and twenty-third DDR Night posters. That’s the first and the very last appearance of the DDR Club’s posters at UMKC. It’s pretty old considering it still has the old DDR Night logo even. Our DDR Night slogan was “We’re Ready; Are You?” I wanted it to be grammatically correct and to read well which is why I was smart enough to use a semicolon unlike Microsoft’s marketing team.

There’s a reason you see a childrens’ hospitals named “children’s” and why Microsoft opted out of my semicolon. It’s because those symbols aren’t used by the grammatically incorrect and since you’re marketing to the everybody, you’ll want anything confusing out of your advertising. Most people don’t know how to used those symbols properly unless they’re making emotions. Either that or those marketing departments are just made up of those people who can’t use those symbols properly. Whatever the reason, I just wanted to say how cool it was to see an idea I thought was cool actually used by the marketing team of one of the biggest companies out there.

– Kevin out

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