I spied this piece on a piece in the parking lot of the grocery store. The car wasn't really a piece, if you happen to be the owner of that specimen of automotive beauty.
This is a very competent effort with the exception of one glaring error, and it is one in the spelling department: Tator? Unless this stickerloo is referencing a joke that I am not in on, the first word is suffering significantly with its second vowel. Tater tots, the little fried nuggets of compressed shredded potatoes, are so commonly spelled "tater" that when I tried to perform a search for "tator" tots, Google prompted me to correct the spelling. Would the artisan who created this item please step forward to explain the motives behind this unintuitive spelling decision?
Back to the analysis: Although this photo does not give the clearest image, I think it is plain to see that the crafstperson behind this item has a fair degree of mastery of stickerloo. I take issue with the angle of the first O (never mind that it shouldn't be there; if it is going to be there in error, it should at least align vertically). The spacing on the last letter of each word is inconsistent, the first being too close to its neighbors, the latter being too distant. A purist may also take note that no fewer than FOUR Waterloo Records stickers had to perish in order to make this one stickerloo. I, however, am a pragmatist and will issue no demerit here, believing that we are the stickerloos we make, not the ones we would make in an ideal world, one in which we do not live. I would like to know if the artist made use of the bycatch from this harvest, or if he or she simply discarded all of those unwanted letters.
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