# Typos in signs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486 "2024-12-11T12:49:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486/21 "2024-12-11T21:32:42Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > So it becomes a matter of memorizing the two arbitrary free-floating facts that “its” is the exception to the possessive rule and “it’s” is the non-exception to the contraction rule. It is a little easier when you also remember Yours His Hers Ours Theirs Are also posessives that don’t use apostrophes. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486/22 "2024-12-11T21:48:09Z")
I worked in a place that had a small pantry for staff use. It had a keypad lock, but was sometimes propped ajar. Someone wrote a sign and posted it on the door: “Please keep the panty locked”. It remained for several months before someone removed it. mmm ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486/23 "2024-12-11T21:55:12Z")
Whoever holds the panty keys controls the ~~kingdom~~ queendom. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486/24 "2024-12-11T23:47:52Z")
This was on a fence near an old workplace. I was not sure exactly what my being had seen but I was supposed to be happy about it. [![](https://i.imgur.com/am0PhUJ.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/am0PhUJ.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![betonbill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b782af/32.png) [@betonbill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betonbill)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486/25 "2024-12-11T23:54:12Z")
Would you patronize a store that advertised “fresh” fish? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486/26 "2024-12-12T01:00:55Z")
> [@betonbill](#): > > Would you patronize a store that advertised “fresh” fish Better that than fresh “fish”. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486/27 "2024-12-12T01:18:49Z")
I see _costumers_ instead of customers quite a lot. > [@iamatractorboy](#): > > posessives that don’t use apostrophes Its/it’s was a bit of a blindspot for me, um, well into adulthood until that pattern of the other possessive pronouns was pointed out. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486/28 "2024-12-12T02:53:26Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Someone wrote a sign and posted it on the door: “Please keep the panty locked”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ajo_N7RezAU/hqdefault.jpg "Check Your Panties!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajo_N7RezAU) ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486/29 "2024-12-12T03:04:11Z")
There was a restaurant here in Tucson for years called Mariscos Chihuahua. The sign on the building was Mariscos Chiuhahua. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486/30 "2024-12-12T18:56:24Z")
Posted in another thread, but I think it works here. Typo or brain fart? - you decide! > [@Amusing Signs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-signs/997074/549): > > Here’s another zoom-in job, one we walked past today. > > https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1724706728065!6m8!1m7!1sjfskH1U9HYV9esVDmbXKzg!2m2!1d50.86769842346665!2d0.01599849714612889!3f332.71987695466606!4f-7.123824420021492!5f0.7820865974627469 > > If you can’t be bothered to zoom, the sign - which shows a body being struck by a huge electric shock - simply says “Danger of Life”. > > Eat your heart out, Mary Shelley. j [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typos-in-signs/1011486.md?page=1)