oloriel | And two random funnies

Walking through Cologne I chanced to approach the WDR building. Over the entrance they had a great poster for something to do with football, don't ask me, at any rate the caption read something like "DAS ERSTE TOR muss man erleben" ("THE FIRST GOAL is a must-experience").
Except that from the angle at which I was approaching, I could at first only see "ERSTE TOR", which, being ungrammatical, my brain immediately substituted with "ERESTOR". And I was, for a second, before reality caught up with me and I could see the rest of the poster, wondering what the hell the WDR had to do with Erestor. An audiobook broadcast, perhaps? But why would they advertise that with Erestor of all the somewhat more obscure Tolkien characters? (Not that I don't realise that Erestor has quite the fan following, but that's, well, within the fandom.)
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Also I read a - overall pretty good - review of The Graveyard Book. The gist of it was that the book is awesome and a new staple of childrens' literature, but the author of the review was slightly peeved that we never hear about Bod teething, or how the inhabitants of the cemetary dispose of the soiled napkins, because, and that's the interesting part, a real child would certainly do a lot of teething and keeping people up at night (... day) with its crying, and crap a lot of diapers.

This has to be enjoyed appropriately.
We are talking about a book in which a human toddler escapes from a killer and is raised by ghosts in a cemetary and grows up, on the whole, well-adjusted and healthy; and they complain because it is not realistic that he's never shown teething.

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Wow, that is a weird pushing point for willing suspension of disbelief. Teething? Seriously? (Am tempted to suspect that the author of the review just returned to work after a few months of parental leave...)