Not as good as some of the others posted here, but a few years back a local Checkers posted an advertisement for its spicy chicken sandwich. Apparently the restaurant had a limited supply of certain letters, because the staff used plain white paper to cover up parts of the sign. What they didn’t realize was that the sign’s light would shine right through the paper after dark, making the sign read:
TRY OUR NEW SPIGY CHICKEN!
For weeks people went through the drive-thru and demanded “spigy chicken” sandwiches. I heard the staff was not amused.
If the supply of letters was so low, what I would have done is omitted the second C in CHICKEN and used it in the word SPICY. I don’t think as many people would have bothered to tell the staff that someone misspelled CHICKEN out on the sign.
In Germany, McDöner’s! A “Döner” is a kebab-type of sandwich and the combination of the name and the way it is pronounced never fails to make me laugh out loud. (I don’t get out much.)
A horrible string of tornados ripped apart the area I lived in (and a long, long way in either direction).
We were out for a drive, a few days after, and passed what had been a drive-in movie theater. The screen was gone, the buildings were rubble, but the tornado had left the ‘Now Playing’ sign standing. On the marquee: “Now Playing: Gone With The Wind.”
My sister lives in a relatively small city up north of the Twin Cities. Ever time I visit I go by one of the two chinese restaurants in town. They have a permanent sign that says;
“Best Chinese Food in Town. Thank You”
(Grammatically it should be better, but it’s just the fact that they say “thank you” after it, it just strikes me funny.)
Maybe the town has one of those annual “Best of” contests – best steak joint, best ice cream sundae, etc.? If they were VOTED best, then the “Thank You” makes perfect sense.
I went to the University of Tennessee (UT). One of the local bars had a no-cover-charge night for coeds, advertised via the sign out front, which read “Ladies free with UT ID”.
Someone altered the sign to read “Ladies free with IUD”
For about a year, a local Wendy’s had “WARM UP WITH A SPICY CHICKEN” on their marquee.
I always pictured this suave rooster sitting at the counter holding a cocktail. <Julio Iglesias voice>"'Allo. I am Ramon. Come with me to the casbah…"</Julio Iglesias voice>
