# Miss ng lett rs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303 "2006-03-06T22:07:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/21 "2006-03-07T03:41:23Z")
There was a show on MTV about high school pranks, and some kids stole a couple of letters off of their school, turning it into A NAL High for the senior prank. Heeeheee! ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/22 "2006-03-07T03:55:43Z")
There’s a local family in town that puts up a huge light display at Xmastime that says, “GOD BLESS AMERICA.” Every year some wag turns it into “GODLESS AMERICA,” which always cracks me up. There’s also a local restaurant called Black Angus which has problems with the “g” disappearing. Always cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/23 "2006-03-07T04:02:30Z")
For months, the sign on the “Zip Signs” company read “Zip Sigs”. Not a company I’d likely go to for my next neon sign needs. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/24 "2006-03-07T05:28:14Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > Another Worcester sign which gave me endless joy was the public library. For a very large part of my childhood, the very large lettering on the side of the building was missing 4 key letters. So, the sign read: > Public bra In my suburban Cleveland childhood hometown , the NORTH OLMSTED BRANCH of the CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY was frequently renamed the NORTH OLMSTED BRA of the U GA C UNT PUB IC BRA, or a variation on that theme. (The use of “ho” as shorthand for whore had not yet gained currency, in case you were wondering.) In Lafayette, there’s a VILLAGE PANTRY chain of convenience stores. One of the units appears to be VILLAGE PANT Y at first glance. In the 1970’s, the U.S. military was attempting to change its Vietnam-tainted image. Unfortunately, the slogan chosen for billboards – TODAY"S ARMY WANTS TO TEACH YOU TO LEARN A SKILL – was all too easily edited to “… TEACH YOU TO KILL”. ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/25 "2006-03-07T08:50:39Z")
I think it’s been fixed now, or they changed the name, but for years a bowling alley in my town was called MEGABOWL I always liked to imagine it as the not-so-secret lair of some feathered superhero. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/26 "2006-03-07T10:12:25Z")
A school a few miles up the road from ours had a sign out the front that read “Pride of the Peninsula”. Some artful wag rearranged the letters to read “Ride the Penis” Oh how I laughed! mm ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/27 "2006-03-07T13:32:42Z")
> [@MissMossie](#): > > On the way to my high school, there was a sign outside a building that said “Virginia Crop Association”. More than once I saw some creative use of spray paint turning it into “Virginia Crap Ass”. You gotta love vandalism in rural Virginia. > > -Mosquito There was a construction firm 'round the Southeast – whom I suspect has since changed names – which went by the name of Jackson and Associates. Some creative spraypaint made their projects “Construction by Jack[del]son and[/del] Ass[del]ociates[/del].” ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/28 "2006-03-07T14:00:07Z")
Cookeville, TN is the home of a small university and a very tiny mall. The mall has no name. It’s sign just says “Mall.” Pitiful place that it was, my buddy Chris plotted for a while to spraypaint the sign to say “sMall.” I thought it was clever, but I don’t know if he ever followed through. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/29 "2006-03-07T14:02:49Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > There was a show on MTV about high school pranks, and some kids stole a couple of letters off of their school, turning it into A NAL High for the senior prank. Heeeheee! Ah yes. I myself went to WE T SEX High School. They’ve changed the sign since so you can’t remove letters. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/30 "2006-03-07T16:01:21Z")
In Royal Oak Michigan on Woodward Ave.; MANUS POWER MOWERS. Quite a few years ago the M fell off the building. ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/31 "2006-03-07T17:53:06Z")
At a mall nearby, there was an Eaton’s store… The design of the mall and the proximityof the road allowed it to read Faton’s as you drove by. I found humour in it as an 8 year old. There is a restaurant (greasy spoon) in the Toronto beaches called [the Goof](http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y275/robertsonphoto/Air-Conditioned.jpg) (looks like the neon has had more problems…I don’t know about the quality of the food). **G O O D FOOD** ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/32 "2006-03-07T18:05:39Z")
Our local “On the Border” restaurant is always ON THE DER. We read signs with missing letters out loud to each other all the time. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/33 "2006-03-07T18:14:35Z")
My favorite was an optical store. They have a giant ONE HOUR GLASSES spelled out in glowy letters. One day I was driving by and the G was out, so you saw: **ONE HOUR LASSES** Who knew the optical store decided to switch to be a brothel? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/34 "2006-03-07T18:41:39Z")
There’s a strip mall near me that has one of those flashing signs that alternately spell out the names of the shops and assorted messages. For several months now, they’ve been proclaiming their patriotism with a big “GOD BLESS AMERICA!”. …except on one side of the sign, a panel of lights is burnt out. So they are shouting to the traffic: GOD BLESS ERICA! That one never fails to crack me up every time I drive by. That Erica sure must be one special girl. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/35 "2006-03-07T18:41:47Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > My favorite was an optical store. They have a giant ONE HOUR GLASSES spelled out in glowy letters. > > One day I was driving by and the G was out, so you saw: > **ONE HOUR LASSES** > > Who knew the optical store decided to switch to be a brothel? 😃 Did they get extra buisiness? ---
**Author:** ![vertizontal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ad7895/32.png) [@vertizontal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertizontal)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/36 "2006-03-07T19:15:41Z")
There was a tobacco store in a strip mall with a lighted sign that said: **International Tobacco**. For a couple of months, several letters went dark, leaving it with the name: **Intern Tobacco** Normally this wouldn’t be very funny, but it happened shortly after the Clinton/Lewinski revelations. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/37 "2006-03-07T19:20:53Z")
> [@MissMossie](#): > > On the way to my high school, there was a sign outside a building that said “Virginia Crop Association”. More than once I saw some creative use of spray paint turning it into “Virginia Crap Ass”. You gotta love vandalism in rural Virginia. And they left “Virginia” untouched? I guess state pride trumps a cheap laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/38 "2006-03-07T19:27:04Z")
It’s much more rewarding hearing of real-life adventures in signage, but I just had to mention the classics: The HELLO THERE sign changed to HELL HERE - _Batman Returns_ The HOTEL CORAL ESSEX with the appropriate letters removed - a _Porky’s_ movie? ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/39 "2006-03-07T19:38:43Z")
> [@Corner Case](#): > > The HOTEL CORAL ESSEX with the appropriate letters removed - a _Porky’s_ movie? HOT-- CO-AL --SEX? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303/40 "2006-03-07T20:08:09Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > HOT-- CO-AL --SEX? :eek: Shhh, **Una** ’s sex life is none of our business. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miss-ng-lett-rs/347303.md?page=3)