Victor Steinbok found this on Google+ and passed it on to me; a great many sites have versions of it:
Note: These Tasty Crackers are Australian; the sale price is in Australian dollars.
Lots of people will do a double-take on seeing that sale sticker, which comes very close to offering tasty-ass crackers.
Of course, the ass here is just an abbreviation of assorted. Why didn’t these p;eople notice the tasty-ass possibility, involving the suffix-like extension -ass of adjectives (big-ass hair, etc.)?
One possibility is that the designers of the sticker just didn’t see what they’d done; if your intentions are clear in your own mind, you’re disinclined to read things as other people (the “innocents”) would. Goodness knows such things happen.
But another possibility is that the extension -ass was simply unfamiliar to the designers of the sticker. My impression is that it’s an American thing (so that -ass just isn’t in the repertoire of most Australian speakers) — though it may well be that it’s now spreading among younger speakers outside of America. In any case, it’s a qauestion on which at least preliminary research can be done
