The letter “R” and signs
There’s a liquor store / convenience market near my office that’s got a broken letter on their sign. They proudly proclaim that they have COLD BEEP for sale. About ten years ago, one of my favorite (and now gone) neighborhood restaurants had some letters fall off their sign, resulting in their having something called BEE and WIN.
Amazin’ Amazon
I placed an order with them last night at 11:30. Used their free super-saver shipping and some gift certificates. I just got a pair of emails that my order has shipped - evidently the items reside in different warehouses. I’m just impressed that less than 14 hours elapsed from placing the order to it being packed and out the door, when it’s being sent by slow brown truck. When I placed the order, they indicated the order would likely ship on next Wednesday.
They had to see this one coming!
An internal request tracking system here is being shut down tonight for an emergency patch and update. The request numbers are quickly advancing to one million, (they’re up to 997,500 or so right now) but the system can only handle six-digit numbers, hence the emergency repair to enable seven-digit numbers. Uh, guys? Much like the year 2000 wasn’t a sneaky attack, these requests stepping at a fairly steady pace toward one million can’t have been a surprise!
Heh, I think a friend and I walked by that place just the other night on our way to the Metreon. We wanted to stop by for some stone cold beep, but we were running late.
I saw a doughnut shop w/a couple missing letters on their sign during my misspent youth - wish I’d taken pictures. Otherwise, who’s going to believe I saw a sign that said “DUNKIN’ DOGNUTS”?
You would think that if you are about to hit 1 million, being the optimistic person that I am, increase the digit to say 8 or 9 numbers? I mean how long has it take you to hit 1 million?
I made an interesting discovery a few years ago. The neon signs high above Hooters restaurants have three sections, broken out like this: HOOTERS. I discovered this when I saw a sign that had the middle section burned out, and was proudly advertising HO RS.
I’ll leave the punch line as an exercise for the student.
Up until just a few years ago, it was legal in Utah for grocery & convenience stores to sell beer, but not to advertise that they were selling it. There was one little store on the road to the airport that had a big sign out front reading
COLD
BEER
NUTS
They always kept a few packages of Beer Nuts in the cooler so they couldn’t be charged with false advertising.
There’s a diner not far away called Colonial Diner. Once its sign said “COLONIAL ER” – which left us wondering about the contents of a colonial emergency room, and once it said “COLON DINER,” which just made us go “eeeew.”
Now I really wish I had a picture, just so I can remember the name of the store! I’ll have to e-mail the guy I was with & see if he remembers - it was at CoastCon in '83 or '84, IIRC (which I’m not sure I do, anymore).
