Me, I was trying to figure out if it was Charlie Manson or Aimee Semple McPherson.
And to think, in another thread ,somebody asked why we like the SDMB!
I recently passed a highway sign that said “Right Lane Exists”. How Zen, I thought.
Turns out it was “Right Lane Exits”.
I was at the drugstore, and glanced at a rack full of the newest faux health fad stuff. Printed in perky pink electric letters on a purple background was the name of the product: “Fatality!”, which I didn’t think was going to sell well. A second look told me its actual name was “Vitality!”
I swa that too. And in a CS thread I thought it said “sexploit Farah Fawcett” but perhaps that was more understandable.
I recently saw a van owned by a removals company. It had lots of information about the firm painted on the back, including “In business for 40 years” and “Fully Insured” plus what I first read as Uninformed Staff" . This latter statement was actually “Uniformed Staff” . :smack:
Now if you could only convince that intern to remove AGEMENT.
These are cases of mischievous tampering (so they don’t count, but I’m going to mention them anyway).
The floor-standing sign inside the door of a Pizza Hut restaurant had been very convincingly altered from ‘please wait here to be seated’ to ‘please wait here to be nauseated’
On an old train, back when it was British Rail, a sign near one of the door seats originally said “please give up this seat if an elderly or disabled person needs it”, but many of the letters had been obliterated, leaving it saying “please eat an elderly or disabled person”
For the longest time, while watching courtroom TV shows, I was bewildered by judges’ first names were always abbreviated on their name plates. I was also curious as to why they all had the first name Honey.
I know the OP was talking about signs; but, I just misread a thread title.
Share your favourite flash games!
Did anyone besides me read Share your favourite flesh games!
I thought it might have been worth reading!
I used to drive by a sign for a video store “Quick Fucks”
Except really it was named Quick Flicks.
Okay, guess what I thought this logo (the one on the top left-hand corner of the page) said when I first saw it on one of the company’s trucks.
Add me to the group of readers who wondered why a redneck had to verify the humor of anything that tickled Harmonious Discord’s fancy.
In college, I frequently passed by a sign in my friend’s apartment complex that commanded me to “Reefer a Friend.”
Is that allowed?!
Apparently it is, as long as you are just “referring a friend”.
Damn.
I have another example of funnily tampered-with signs. At the University of Ottawa’s library, every desk has a sign saying “It is forbidden to eat or drink in the library” (plus the equivalent in French) posted on it. I saw one that had been changed to “It is forbidden to read or think in the library”.
There is a trucking company called Fuchs Trucking that has it emblazoned on the semis. I know what it is, but I always read Fucks Trucking.
A slight variation to misreading a sign follows. As for the Slow Children sign, I think we all go “Well, make them go faster.”
I used to drive past a sign (that was planted right in front of the local community college, by the by) that I always thought said “Vechicle Testing Center” with an arrow pointing in the correct direction. Even though I always saw it that way, I assumed it was simply my dyslexia popping in to say hello everytime and disregarded it until I pointed to it one day with my (then-bf, now-)husband in the car, giggled and said “vechicle testing center” and he said “oh my god, I would never have noticed that if you hadn’t pointed it out!” Turns out the sign really did say that! Of course, I mentioned it in the one and only “letter to the editor” I wrote – which was an attack on the public schools in this town. The sign was removed and replaced with a correctly spelled one within days of my letter. Kind of funny.
Og forgive me, every time I see that sign I think “The smart ones know not to play in the street.”
A restaurant opened up near my office, and I think they’re not really saying what they had in mind…
There’s always a line at Joe’s!
Thanks for warning me. I’m in a bit of a hurry, so I’ll eat somewhere else.
I was at a Cleveland Indians baseball game recently and read on the message board news about an upcoming promotion, which I thought said, “Dog Collar Night.” I thought that was kind of kinky for the Indians until my companion point out that it actually said, “Dollar Dog Night”, ie, one would be able to purchase a hot dog for a single dollar.
I’ll fourth this observation. :smack: