In past articles in which your participation was not only requested but also helpful and humorous, I did not give the answers to questions which I have posed to you; so this article contains the answers to past articles — Part 44 — along with links to the aforementioned articles…
Answers to Past Articles — Part 44: Starwood Chocolate Fruit Internments Mussell Suitjack
…and the links are embedded in the titles of each section as well as within the sections themselves; so please click on the links in each section to take you to the original article.
The Favorite Answer will usually be the correct answer by a reader of The Gate With Brian Cohen — along with a Favorite Comment from the same article which I found to be funny or informative.
What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 216
Mistakes occur with every weblog at BoardingArea — The Gate With Brian Cohen is certainly no exception — but I wondered why an article whose topic pertaining to how to earn elite level status with the Starwood Preferred Guest membership program was featured greater than five years after it ceased to exist after Starwood Hotels & Resorts was acquired by Marriott International, Incorporated back on Saturday, August 18, 2018. My guess is that an error in technology was involved…
…and sometimes when a writer at BoardingArea does not include a photograph in an article, a random photograph will automatically be placed with the article at the home site. Why no fewer than two photographs of airplanes were featured in an article whose topic highlights lodging is beyond me.
Favorite answer by Jim F.: “It’s hard to imagine that any travel blogger doesn’t know that the SPG program was swallowed up by Marriott’s Bonvoy program years ago.”
Favorite comment by derek: “The photo for the Starwood offer is a bit bizzare. It’s a wing of a Boeing 737, possibly 737-800. A photo of a Starwood hotel would probably be more appropriate.”
What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 217
When did chocolate become a fruit? I suppose that the cacao tree technically bears fruit that yields the main ingredient for the manufacture of chocolate, which is processed to the point that it is substantially so far removed from its origins that nobody automatically considers chocolate a fruit — except for one manufacturer of ice pops.
Favorite answer by Vince: “Just fruit, water and cane sugar makes…dark chocolate?”
Favorite comment by DaninMCI: “Chocolate fruit?”
What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 218
The word interments — which is used correctly in the highlighted green box in the screen shot above — means the burial of a corpses in graves or tombs — typically with funeral rites…
…but the word internments — which is used incorrectly as a headline — means the state of being confined as a prisoner — especially for political or military reasons.
What exactly is the city of Vicksburg in Mississippi trying to say about historic Cedar Hill Cemetery, which I visited?
Favorite answer and comment by derek: “Good thing they didn’t put the President’s name or they could have been arrested as threatening his life. Some of the people listed have burial dates in the future, as far away as December. One is listed even 300 years in the future. It seems to be listed as Month/Day/Year, not Day/Month/Year.
“Spooky.”
What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 219
Never mind that the word mussell is spelled incorrectly at a buffet restaurant which I visited — since when are segments of hot dogs wrapped in pastry considered to be mussels?
Favorite answer and comment by Jason: “I’m struggling to find anything that’s right with the photo.
“Mussell? Well, that isn’t seafood… at best it’s cheap microwave hotdogs in pastry. Or, it’s the remains of the former Commander of the Rhodesian Air Force, Air Marshal Frank Mussell. In which case, still don’t like the odds with that mystery meat.”
What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 220
Have you stayed as a guest in a Hampton Inn and Suitjack lately? Actually, this bill was for my stay at the Hampton Inn & Suites Jackson Downtown-Coliseum hotel property in Mississippi — and the hotel property is technically located on top of a volcano.
Favorite answer by derek: “Suite sounds like sweet but some people are not aware of this and say “suit”. This must have caused the Hampton Inn and Suites to become Hampton Inn and Suit Jacket.”
Access to Past Articles in the What is Wrong With This Photograph? Series
You can refer to this definitive list of past articles of the What is Wrong With This Photograph? series of articles — which also includes articles which reveal the answers — and that list will be continuously updated as additional articles are written and posted here at The Gate With Brian Cohen. This is to ensure that future articles in this series are not encumbered with a long list of links — especially when viewing and reading them from a portable electronic device.
Your constructive input as a reader of The Gate With Brian Cohen is always appreciated.
Final Boarding Call
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