# Clint Black's font/kerning disaster

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 13, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903 "2012-11-13T17:42:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/21 "2012-11-14T03:54:29Z")

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> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> “Australians go crazy for Nads!” Hee hee hee. 😃

From the page:  
Upon hearing our initial jokes, our friend Niki commented sardonically that it was a “ten-year old boy thing.” Yes, we replied, but it is an _hilarious_ ten-year old boy thing, and if you think we’re going to stop mentioning the product’s name at every incongruous juncture, you might as well quit reading now.

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**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/22 "2012-11-14T06:00:34Z")

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There’s a CLINT’S LIQUORS that makes me do a double take every time I’m driving back to Austin on 71. It would be funnier without the possessive though. There’s also a BUTTERCUP LIQUORS where the -ERCUP light is usually burnt out. But I think they do that on purpose.

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**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/23 "2012-11-14T08:30:16Z")

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Years ago I saw a Wells Fargo billboard near San Francisco airport. It showed a stagecoach with the tag line **Buck the System**. Some wit had climbed up there and painted out the right side of the **B**.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/24 "2012-11-14T09:06:49Z")

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> [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](#):
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> There’s a CLINT’S LIQUORS that makes me do a double take every time I’m driving back to Austin on 71. It would be funnier without the possessive though. There’s also a BUTTERCUP LIQUORS where the -ERCUP light is usually burnt out. But I think they do that on purpose.

There are a couple stores north of Boston called “Bunghole Liquors”. No need to dim the lights or nothing, that’s just what they’re called.

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clint-blacks-font-kerning-disaster/640903/25 "2012-11-14T13:56:15Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> I pointed the sign out to my gf

Uh oh. Do you [really hate her](http://xkcd.com/1015/)?

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