There’s a political sign near my laundromat that gives me a giggle every week: it originally read, I assume, something along the lines of “SHERIFF HERB [something or other] SAYS ELECT A MAN OF SKILL!” But time, weather and vandals have reduced it to, “SHERIFF HERB SAYS KILL!”
Are there any damaged signs in your neighborhood that are good for a laugh?
Well I don’ t know about damaged, but there is a massage place near my apartment that is called:
Massage - U – Knead
Makes me giggle
When I was a kid, there was a pizza shop nearby with a marquee that read “WE SERVE GOOD FOOD”. Some local kids rearranged the sign to say “WE SERVE DOG FOOD”.
I was like ten when I saw that, and it cracked me up BAD.
Pix, people, PIX!!1! if at all possible.
I love this stuff, but it’s just not the same typed out in size 3 Trebuchet Bold.
Near stately Mercotan manor, there’s a sign that used to say
PRIVATE ROAD
DEAD END
Some of the letters were apparently better made than the others, and it now reads
I ATE AD
DEAD E D
Poor Ed…
There’s a local muffler shop that has a large sign that says MUFF DOCTOR .
There was a motel in Sarasota that had a changable sign, (i.e. the one you could add or remove letters from easily,) and I don’t see why they didn’t change it for literally years. It, at one time, read “LOW RATES”. For years it read “LOW RATS”.
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Oh, and there was a flophouse-looking residency for years on Osprey Ave. The actual business sign on the front advertised itself as the Ospery Inn. Whether it was due to copyright, fancy, or error, it just made them look like a cheap flophouse.
(Both of these posts aren’t nearly as funny if you don’t believe me when I say that I am not making this up, and they were in this state for years.)
I always liked the sign on a short road beside a mortuary that read “Dead End”. I always meant to get a picture of it, but the mortuary, road and sign were torn down during bridge construction a few years ago.
There was an old pawn shop in my neighborhood that had a windowed front, painted with big words.
It originally said across two window.
JEW|ELRY
GO|LD
TO|OLS
Habla| Espanol
But the second window got broken, and for about three days it said the oddly bigoted:
JEW
GO
TO
Habla
This isn’t due to wear – or even a sign, but some bad price stickering logistics at a local Zellers this past Christmas resulted in some rather unfortunate packaging. Behold: The Musical Jew!
L’esprit d’escalier: I wonder if it plays Fiddler on the Roof?
In the early 1970s I was working in a government office. My boss (a recent retiree from the US Marine Corps) insisted that all the people who worked under him had to put bumper stickers on their cars. The sticker was red, white, and blue, and it said JOBS FOR VETERANS.
It irked me that we were being forced to do this, so I put the sticker on my bumper only after I cut off the letters J and O, leaving the message BS FOR VETERANS.
Oh! That just reminded me of another one. Our library has a copy of The Gnostic Discoveries, but the library sticker over the spine turned it into The Gnostic Disco.
On I-4 in Orlando, there is a motel you drive by at some point with one of those old-fashioned digital sign that should have read “Free Cont. Breakfast,” for “continental.” Of course, the top row of lights in the “o” shorted out, so you can imagine what it looked like you could munch on in there.
In my town, there is a pawn shop / payday advance place that has big letters on its side which once said CHECK CASHING. The third C fell off at some point, though, so now it says CHECK ASHING. I guess it’s for people with money to burn?
I used to pass a building with “CANAL APTS.” over the front door. Of course, you know someone came along and stole the C.
This isn’t the same thing, but it’s the only thing I can think of, and it is rather bizarre if you think about it:
When Adam Riggs first played with the Anaheim Angels in 2003, he wore a uniform that inexplicably said “ANGEES.” Apparently, there was some sort of error made.
