So, my sister-in-law buys my daughter this shirt. All together now: Awwwww…
Yeah yeah, very cute. This is, until your looking at her from a not-quite head-on perspective. If you would join me in taking a step to the right, you’ll see the message takes on a definite change.
There was a hotel near where I lived (for all I know, there still is), called the “St David’s Park Hotel”. It had a standard illuminated sign, the name of the hotel spelt out in backlit lettering.
One day - perhaps deliberately, perhaps by a happy accident - the lamps behind the right-hand half of the “P” and the top half of the “a” in “Park” failed. And “r” is close enough to “c” to complete the effect.
That…er…reminds me of something my youngest cousin said when she was 2 years old.
We were at a busy family gathering (of course) and I was talking to one of my aunts, when my cousin comes running up to her and says in the loudest voice possible (of course):
Cousin: “MOMMY! MOMMY! I HAVE A 'GINA!”
My aunt (just slightly embarassed): “Uh, Yes. You do.”
Cousin (still at 1000 decibels): “YA. I THINK I KNOW WHAT IT’S FOR!”
My aunt: “Uh…Really??”
Cousin: “YA, IT MIGHT BE FOR A SURPRISE LATER!!”
Aunt:( :eek:, Entire rest of family laughs like crazy)
There’s a street I drive past with some regularity called “Flicker,” except the street sign is printed in all caps. From a distance, the L and I appear to meld together to form a capital U.
Okay, I’m trying here…
Taking away the right half of the P gives you l
Taking away the top half of a gives you a small o (?)
Change r to c
So I get "St David’s l o c k Hotel.
I’m assuming, from the nature of the thread, the l is supposed to be a c, but I don’t see how you get that from a capital P.
I used to work with a guy named Clint. Our supervisor wrote up the list each day, showing what job we were assigned to, since it often changed daily, depending on who was out sick/on vacation/whatever. Our supervisor writes in capitals, in heavy block font.
On a particularly slow day, he had two of us working alone on a machine together. I come in, glance at the list, and do a double take. It says:
ANASTASIA
CLINT
Excuse me?! What the hell did I ever do to you?! :eek:
Heh…we used to have a restaurant in town called Flick’s that suffered from the same font problem. It wasn’t long before everyone just started calling the place by its…err…“new” name.
Incidentally…this thread was not a compliment fishing expedition. But thanks for the comments anyways, folks.