No Parkig

Subject: Miss-spelled signs
From: Jenny
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 10:24 AM

"NO PARKIG" I saw this sign outside someone's house. I was dying to leave a note asking if their cold was better!

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: King Brilliant
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 10:34 AM

Hehehe :-)

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 10:42 AM

Not misspelt but a sign to chill the blood:(seen at a garden gate backing on to a towpath on the Basingstoke canal near Mytchett):"Beware of the dog. Stand still if challenged"

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Allan C.
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 10:44 AM

I have seen "Garag Sale" and "Gong Out of Business" signs. Most of us have seen the often used trick of misspelling part of a sign like "Used Ferniture" or something like that. They often produce surprisingly good results in customer traffic because of those folks who can't resist going into the store and informing the proprietor of the "error". But I doubt that the parking sign was of this category.

My favorite sign is not misspelled but I like it just the same. It indicates a small country road named, "Pinch Her Slyly".

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: annamill
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 10:52 AM

I was on a small island in the Azores called San Miguel which is considered a Portuguese island. In the main town, in the middle of the square is a large statue of an imposing angel. At the base of the statue was the name of the angel "SANTMICHODEARCANGO" "SANT" "MICHO" "DE" "ARC" "ANGO". I'm not kidding. I thought it was great.

Beautiful island, great people. Very inexpensive to be there.

annap

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 11:30 AM

Forgive me for being scatalogical (blame it on Catspaw) but I have in my possession a photo that I took outside a motel in Plattsburg NY. Their sign says "AFTER DINNER RELAX IN OUR HEATED POO". I kid you not.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 11:35 AM

OK, so it's not a sign but I must get one last weak "joke" in before I go off on leave: headline in today's press "EU attacks Gibraltar bottleneck".
Does that mean Mississippi [I can spell Mississippi, I just don't know when to stop] Fred McDowall and Elmore James wouldn't be allowed to play a Spanish Guitar?
Back in 10 days- make the most of it!

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: annamill
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 12:04 PM

Speaking of pools, when I was married and owned a house, a 100 years ago, I had a large swimming pool in our yard. I put a sign up for my Grandchildren. It said:

"We call this an 'ool'. Do you know why? "'Cause there's no 'P' in it." "Let's keep it that way,OK?"

I eventually gave the pool (it was an above ground pool) to my daughter and her family. They still call it an "ool".

annap

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 12:17 PM

Should have called it an "l" and been on the safe side!!

There have been one or two "Hell's Angles" in Walsall in the past, if studs are tobe believed.

Steve

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: annamill
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 12:20 PM

I realise I didn't write what "SANTMICHODEARCANGO" was suppose to represent. I don't know if this is true, it's pure speculation, but I think what may have happened was some well meaning missionaries came there and tried to teach the resident islanders about "Micheal the Arch Angel". Not speaking English, they misspelled the name on the statue.

I could be wrong, but I cannot think of another scenerio.

annap

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 01 Jul 99 - 12:35 PM

When we lived in Vermont, just up the village road from us there lived an elderly (75? doesn't seem so elderly to me now) retired farmer and his equally elderly wife. They thought they might take advantage of the passing tourist traffic and put up a crudely hand-lettered sign: "ANTICS." I tried to visualize them in the midst of such, but failed.

Sandy

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Allan C.
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 03:16 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 03:20 PM

I bet "ANTICS" drew more customers than Antiques. A store here sells "GENUINE FURNITURE."

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Jenny the T
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 03:33 PM

Well, it's not a misspelling story, but there's one sign that stands out in my memory:

A few years ago, upon entering Georgia just south of Chattanooga, we turned off for a bite to eat in Fort Oglethorpe (also the location of Chickamauga Battlefield).

We'd been noticing for some time the masses of kudzu vines covering everything--electric poles, trees, billboard stanchions, you name it--it was ubiquitous.

Driving along the little road leading to Ft. Oglethorpe, I noticed a small sign, itself a mass of vines, along the side of the road. Barely visible through the kudzu leaves was the legend Kudzu Control Area

JtT

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Allan C.
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 03:52 PM

Related thread

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Metchosin
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 03:53 PM

We can certainly mangle our own language but no one comes close to the Japanese click here for Japanese Engrish

My own example was the following instructions on a cassette head cleaner: "If destroyed, pat it sometimes and try".

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Allan C.
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 03:57 PM

There's no accounting for bad taste.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 04:18 PM

I have a friend whom I haven't seen for years who was into street and traffic control signs. He took pictures of them and planned to do a picture book. Don't tnink he ever did, though. One that he spotted had been modified by scratching letters off. Originally it read

DANGER ZONE
IMPOUND
PARKED CARS

The edited version read

ANGER ZONE
I POUND
PARKED CARS

He planned on ending the book with the following sequence

ONE WAY
NO LEFT TURN
NO RIGHT TURN
NO U TURN
DEAD END

Don Firth

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: mooman
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 05:25 PM

I remember many years ago the village of Box in Wiltshire, England had one of those traffic control grids painted on the road with the accompanying sign"

"Do not enter Box unless your exit is clear"

Smiled many times at that one!

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 05:31 PM

Once nearly crashed into a sign that said Loo chippings... always wondered what they made them of....

Then there is the village of Wynford Eagle, the sign for which was proudly displayed under a road sign for cattle crossing.....

LTS

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 05:47 PM

Years ago, on the main road into a labrynth of logging roads in Kent County, New Brunswick, during the moose hunting season, a sign was posted : Moose hauled by Hores, $20, tel.....

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 06:16 PM

My favorite is the awning at a local beauty salon. In bold white letters on a red background is written "UNIXES". I puzzled over it for months before realizing they meant UNISEX.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Hollowfox
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 06:41 PM

Unless urban redevopment has removed it, there was an intersection in Rochester, New York, sort of between the main library and the Xerox Tower, of Stone Street and Climax Alley. This was immortalized on a tee shirt back in the early 1970's by a folkie photographer as part of a class assignment at Rochester Institute of Technology. I still have my (Velveeta orange) shirt, but somehow I won't loan it to any of my kids to wear to school.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Hollowfox
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 06:42 PM

(Oops, I meant this to be on the street names thread. Sorry.)

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 07:03 PM

I once saw a sign advertising fishing bait. It said "NITE CRALLERS."

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Lyndi-loo
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 05:30 AM

I have lost count of the number of times I have seen graffiti for football (soccer) teams that read "Manchester Untied" or "Ayr Untied". And I was once in Spain where a disco proudly announced that it had sycodlic lights

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: RangerSteve
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 07:57 AM

Years ago on Long Island NY there was a new building along a highway with a sign that proclaimed "NOW RENTNIG" The windows were about 6 feet high with one letter per window. Somehow, the owners never noticed the mistake. On a theater marquis in Red Bank NJ a few years ago was the announcement "Coming March 15 - Monmouth Smyphony Orch. It was there for a month. In Greensboro NC - "Entrance up Frunt", and "Come on in, We Got Everthing". All over NJ - live bate, liv bait, knight crawlers,- apparently, bait advertisements are supposed to be misspelled.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 08:00 AM

When our firstborn, Sam, was roundabout three years old, he had a spat with his mother whilst I was at work. She found a note he had written.

'I leavig hom'

She was understandably concerned, and found him playing with his toys. Apparently he had subsequently forgotten to leave home. We're keeping that little note to re-present to him when he does final fly the coop!

Skipjack

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: LR Mole
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 10:16 AM

The Boston commuter rail cars used to have doors at the ends with the caution "No Passing Through". I don't think I ever saw one without the letters scratched off so it said "NO ASSING ROUGH". I was never able to form a picture of what that might be like, but it sounds painful.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Don Firth
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 08:10 PM

Theater marquis from years ago:

MOTHER WORE THIGHTS
ALSO SELECTED SHORTS

Don Firth

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Don Firth
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 08:17 PM

(Damn! That's supposed to be "TIGHTS." Well, that explains how these things happen.)

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 08:57 PM

Jenny: There is nothing wrong with that sign. The person who posted it is simply telling the person who delivers Parkig's that she doesn't want any that day.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Bugsy
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 09:16 PM

There used to be one near me that said "Strickly No Parking".

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 10:35 PM

In Edinburgh many years ago there was a shop at the bottom of Leith Walk with a beautiful gilded window sign reading "Videos for all ocassions". There were so many spelling mistakes in professionally made signs in Edinburgh in these days that I am convinced to this day that signwriting firms were pressured to hire dyslexics.

While installing cabinets in the new DHSS Centre in Livingston in the 70's , I witnessed a large plastic lettered sign being erected which read "Data Preperation Unit". Ten days later I was finishing up my work and the sign was still there. I asked the Clerk of Works when it would be changed, and he stared at it and asked what was wrong with it.

I am aware that some people consider spelling words correctly to be a sign of pedantry. If that is so, I am a pedant and proud of it.

Murray

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 11:16 PM

Murray weve noticed,youve mentioned spelling mistakes in at least 3 threads in the last few days!

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: ddw
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 11:30 PM

At the entrance to a housing development in Windsor, Ont., a carved wooden sign about four feet by two feet announces "FACTORIA VILLAGE."

I passed a few days ago and the "c" had been recarved; FAGTORIA VILLAGE.

david

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 05:00 AM

John, with piss-poor construction like that, I have to leap to Murray's defence. Where it's sheer bloody laziness that is evident, I think it is a graphic insult. Genuine dyslexia notwithstanding, missed apostrophes (weve,youve), missed spaces (weve,youve) and missed commas (Murray weve)give Murray every reason to rail against sloppy scribbling.

As much as this may surprise Murray (as the pedant jibe was actually mine!), I am equally pedantic and proud of it. However, John, I don't want to upset you, so I apologise immediately for the harsh words above. This is a running sore in Mudcat, and I don't want to inflame it even more. This is a musical community, and poor command of grammar or the written word shouldn't bar any contributor, but, to me at least, laziness is much worse than ignorance.

I was taught the importance of the correct useage of commas through humour. Ceasar entered on his head, his helmet on his feet, his sandals in his hand, his sword in his eye, an angry glare.

Battle bowlers on! Hostile fire!

Skipjack

ps Please list the howlers in above polemic.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 05:49 AM

John In Remote Kansas (JIRK) on LIK's cookie

Our local "Wichita State University"
(commonly called "Hillside High" by those who went elsewhere)
a few years ago produced an elaborate television commercial for their groundbreaking
"School of Entrepreneurship".
Here they would teach people how to start and run their own fabulously successful home grown companies.

The commercial ran on local television for MORE THAN THREE YEARS before someone pointed out to them that the misspelled "enterpernure" several times in the commercial.

These are the same guys who took less than three WEEKS to make the professor who hosted an excellent
series on "classic movies" remove his name-tag from the desk in the background
It said
OL' FLICK

I guess if your reception is a little fuzzy - and you have a dirty mind .....

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: GUEST,Brian
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 08:51 AM

A house in our village used to have a sign advertising 'FRESH EEGS'.

On the A37 just outside Shepton Mallet there is a sign advertising 'TELEGRAF POLES'. After a while it was 'corrected'. For the last four years it's advertised 'TELEGRATH POLES'!

Brian

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 09:03 AM

That's up by Cannard's Grave, Brian. God's land.

Skipjack

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: GUEST,Brian
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 09:13 AM

Sure is! But I think God moved out when I moved to Somerset.

Brian

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 09:23 AM

Despite the rumours, Him upstairs and me left separately. I used to live to Stoke St Michael for 9 very happy years, but became an economic exile in 1995, and moved to the peoples republic of South Humberside. Oh dear!

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: GUEST,Brian
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 09:52 AM

So Skipjack, what was it, I said that offended you and God. I moved into Coleford, 11 years ago! Oh dear! Oh dear! Oh dear!

Brian

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 10:45 AM

You'm the wrong side o' the batch there, young'un. There's some rum types to Coleford, dun'm.

Ever get up the Hunters @ Priddy of a Tuesday? I served my apprenticeship on the squeezebox there. Some say I'm still short of me 'dentures! I get back there about every six months or so for a session.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: GUEST,Mark Cohen (still at hosp, 5AM)
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 11:13 AM

When I was a medical student doing my pediatrics rotation at Harrisburg (Pa.) Hospital, I always enjoyed the sign on the door that said, "Nursey". Every time I went in, though, all I found was babies.

And in the scratched-out letters department, I'm sure we've all seen the electric hand dryers in public rest rooms that said "Push button, rub hands under warm air" (this was before the days of the universally incomprehensible pictograms). Somebody could always be found to scratch out "on", "w", and "air".

Allan C, thanks for refreshing this...it's good to remind ourselves that there were goofy threads even in the Golden Age of Mudcat. (Said with tongue firmly in check.)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 11:27 AM

Skipjack,I apologise for any any spelling mistakes or bad grammer,I have used.I am not dislexic but do not have the benefit of a good education ( i work as a delivery driver) I can see it annoys some people so I will stop posting to the main forum,I have no wish to argue with anyone,I dont like arguing.john

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: GUEST,Les B
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 11:27 AM

A sign seen on a fast food Taco joint in Arizona:
NOW HIRING ALL SHITS ! Not sure if it was a disgruntled employee, or freudian spelling.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 11:45 AM

John, get yourself back into the forum. I shouldn't have loosed orf at you. I was having my own spat with Murray over him being pedantic about the spelling of 'accordion', and you walked into the crossfire. I'm sorry, and you live close enough to come round and duff me up, or run me off the M62, so please don't chuck in the towel.

You are right, in that I did have a privileged education, but you have me entirely wrong if you think that that education made me perceive myself as better than anyone else. The reverse of that is more true.

Also, self recriminations r us, so if you did chuck it in, 'twould be on my conscience. I'm not mad keen on arguing, myself.

Skipjack

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Lyndi-loo
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 12:08 PM

I was having my own spat with Murray over him being pedantic about the spelling of 'accordion',
I think you mean "his" being pedantic! *BG*

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 12:12 PM

Fifteen-love! *BG*ing, too!

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 12:51 PM

"Parkig" would be the German word for "of or like a Park", no?

Alex

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Ebbie
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 01:27 PM

Skipjack, may I say this: It wasn't Ceasar at all- it was CAESAR! LOL

Ebbie

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: The Walrus at work
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 02:11 PM

Not a spelling mistake, but one of my favourite signs appeared in a hairdresser's window in Southall "Ears pierced while you wait" I just wondered what the alternative was.

Regards

Walrus

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: mousethief
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 02:28 PM

gives a whole new meaning to "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears!"

Alex

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 02:29 PM

Skipjack- Im back,thanks.john:-)

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: lady penelope
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 05:18 PM

Also not a mis-spelling but a firm favourite.....

Near where Liz the squeak lives is a row of shops one of which used to be (many, many years ago ) a laundrey. The sign at the top of the building still survives and declares to the neihbourhood

"We'll do for your wife!"

Nuf sed.

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: sophocleese
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 07:56 PM

Many's the time I wanted to stop the car near Carnarvon and take a picture o fthe sign advertising "Hitch and Post Hairstyling." Unfortuneately the owners have renamed it to something far more pedestrian and forgettable.

I did see this lovely sign though on Monday Night:

RELAXED SUMMER CAMPING

PAINTBALL DEMO

Makes me wonder what happens at tense summer camping...

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 13 Jun 01 - 08:11 PM

Oh and, Skipjack as long as we're being, pedantic there is only one "e" in usage. Or is that another Brit thing? (I hope you can see the wink from all the way out here in the middle of the larger pond...)

And I just saw this sign on the window of a hairdresser's shop in Hilo: "Hours by appointment. Walk-ins welcome to."

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 14 Jun 01 - 04:39 AM

Alright, it's official, I feel a bit of a twat! All shots taken in good part. Sure could do with a spell-check on here!

John, thanks for PM, and forgiveness.

Skipjack

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jun 01 - 07:45 AM

Skipjack, any man that refers to me as a young'un either wants his eyes/'ed testing, or is alright in my book. As you've been known to frequent the Hunter's, it's probibly both! It's our favoured watering hole when we're out that way, but have never been on 'box' night (noisy buggers - them box squeezers!)

You rightly said that the 'Poles' sign was up by Cannard's Grave. The pub there used to have two different signs. On one it was called 'Cannard's Well Inn', on the other it was called 'Cannard's Grave Inn'. I always wondered what happened to the sign in between. The one that should read 'Cannard's Feeling Extremely Unwell Inn'. When they re-furbished the pub a while back, all the signs became 'Cannard's Grave Inn'.

Coleford folks, wrong side o' the batch, heh! I'll 'av ee know, 'ems be zolt o' thee erererth (if p'r'aps one lump short of a vull zack). So, where's ee to?

FONE-ETIC spelling deliberate!

Brian

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 14 Jun 01 - 09:15 AM

I know this is not a very nice thing to admit to - but there's a lot of fun to be had from dyslexia. Mark (my other 1/2) is that way inclined & used to tend to panic halfway through a word and just throw in random letters, with hilarious results. Whenever I was particularly depressed about something I'd do a 'spelling bee' on him. Bless him, he can really cheer a girl up!!! You wouldn't believe the letters that ended up the word 'station'. Actually I feel a bit ashamed of it really - and we haven't done the 'bee' for years now.

Kris (hanging head in shame)

PS - Shopping lists are still full of little gems though.......

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 02:13 AM

Theres' a sign somewhe're dow'n south saying "Secret Nuclear Bunker".

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: LadyJean
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 01:32 AM

Long ago I had a textbook that claimed the principal products of Ceylon were rubber coconuts and tea. What a difference a comma makes!

Judy Blume spelled my hometown Pittsburg in one of her books. You'd think a writer would know better. (It's Pittsburgh.)

I can just see those rubber coconuts bouncing into the crate.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Jeanie
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 05:49 AM

John: the Secret Nuclear Bunker is just outside Brentwood, Essex, where I live - and yes, the town is over-run with large road signs pointing to it !

Take a virtual tour of the Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker here.

It's now a 'tourist attraction' and hired out for parties etc. Someone hired it out just for himself over Christmas/New Year 1999/2000 to escape the Millennium celebrations.

In its days of real secrecy, it was very, very secret. The entrance to the vast underground network is through an assuming bungalow. The only thing slightly bizarre about it is that it is a typical suburban bungalow, normally found in the Acacia Avenues of this world, but all on its own in the middle of a wood.

- jeanie

Subject: *bump* -- No Parkig
From: JesseW
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 01:49 AM

Ah, a worthy humor (or is that humour...) thread from back in the mists...

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 02:52 AM

Not a spelling error but a fine juxtaposition — Have I recorded on any thread b4 [if so please excuse repetition but it fits on this thread well] the advertising hoarding I saw once on which two adjacent posters declared in enormous letters:—

VD CAN BE CURED! ····· I GOT IT AT THE CO-OP!

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Bugsy
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 09:07 PM

At our local chemist - "OPEN SEVEN DAYS, INCLUDING SUNDAY!"

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 10:26 PM

Is it just me, or are there more than usual accidental bad spelling in this thread about bad spellig.


Just noticed them because I'm reading more carefully than usual, I suspect.

Mine above was deliberate. Honest.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Anne Lister
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 06:54 AM

Our favourite local sign, with perfect spelling, is "Free Range Potatoes".
Well, you wouldn't want them to be battery farmed, now, would you?

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 07:06 AM

A local electrified sign offered KARKOE. I was afraid to ask what kinda songs they're singing in THAT bar! :~)

We all do this though. I have a carefully lettered sign on MY back door advising to NOCK LOUD. Oh, heck-- strokebrain rides again! :~) I'll get around to replacing it when I feel like it! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Arnie
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 07:46 AM

Just read of a UK bank that closed early last week and left a sign on the door saying "Staff gone home early due to snow - sorry for the incontinence".

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: kendall
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 07:49 AM

I get a kick out of signs that ignore punctuation marks. Here is a sample of them:
At a small convenience store in Buxton Maine:

DICKS WORMS AND CRAWLERS

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 07:52 AM

Recently there was a sign at a nearby restaurant indicating the menu for New Year's Day. It was a double sided sign. The first side said:

Pork and Sour Crout

The second side read:

Pork and Sour Kraut

Kinda funny that it was wrong on both sides yet in different ways! Made me giggle!

Michelle

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: kendall
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 11:32 AM

They don't teach spelling anymore in schools. That's what spell check is for. Sad.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Anne Lister
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 11:39 AM

Every school I've ever taught in has attempted to teach spelling. Maybe the schools in the US are different?

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 12:11 PM

That's so Anne - and when I taught for 30 years 50s-80s we certainly did. But one of beefs I hear & read of these days is that spelling is scarcely if at all taken into account in all these far too many exams the poor young people are incessantly lumbered with these days. It was not so when Mike did reign and this old hat was new...

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 12:53 PM

They have changed it since but at a parking lot (car park) near me there was a sign: 'State of Alaska Emplyee Parking Only'.

I am currently living in the heart of the downtown pub action; I see more nightlife than I need.

On the window of one bar is a sign announcing a trivia contest and wine tasting night. It says: Test your Brain and Your Pallet'.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: kendall
Date: 10 Jan 10 - 03:19 PM

When I was in school even your geography tests required proper spelling.

I see it as more "dumbing down" of America. People who say, "like" every three or four words, or "Nome sane" lose my interest very quickly. Language was created so we can understand each other so, without proper spelling and grammar we are left with a guessing game for which I have no time.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 12:41 PM

In my rebellious youth I decided to ostentasiously disobey all signs telling to do or not to something. Outside a neighbour's house there appeared a sign bearing the legend..'No Parking'. As I didn't have a car I was stymied in my attempts to disobey....until a brainwave. I painted the P into a B, then barked loudly, like a dog, every time I passed the house.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 03:30 PM

Painted on the edge of a platform at a railway station in Essex is the gnomic command

GAP THE MIND

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Gurney
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 03:47 PM

In NZ, they paint subsidiary signs on the road approaching things such as road junctions. They paint them in the order that you approach them, such as 'GIVE' followed by 'WAY." When the road has a slight incline so that you can see both messages, it reads 'WAY GIVE" in the normal way, top to bottom.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 04:12 PM

I havbe always founbd it very amusing fhat people who call other people idiots frewquently misspell the word! :~)

~Susan minus glasses~

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Tangledwood
Date: 11 Jan 10 - 04:35 PM

During the late '50s/early '60s in the Brighton/Hove (UK) area there were traffic signs, small blue rectangles with the wording "Police Notice. No parking". A large building in the Hove area, possibly a private hotel, had very similar home-made signs "Polite Notice. No parking".

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Becca72
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 10:22 AM

I saw a sign this summer that read " Frig for sale"
I resisted the urge to go in...

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: GUEST,Gusty
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 12:10 PM

There used to be a famous sign on a laundry on the way to West Ham United's ground - 'Don't Kill Your Wife - Let Us Do It For You'!

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Gurney
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 03:26 PM

Becca, was it written in a call-box...?

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Becca72
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 04:00 PM

Nope..twas a sign in front of an office

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 07:43 PM

The late John Hillaby (walker/author) wrote that he saw a sign in a bathroom in a B & B, next to a river where a fishing contest was under way:

ANGLERS MUST NOT WET THEIR WORMS IN THE BATH

(From "Journey Through England" - excellent book, don't know if you can still get it but it'll be on Abebooks on the Web if it's out of print)

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 12 Jan 10 - 07:49 PM

Sorry, I meant "Journey through Britain"; how could I forget Ben Mhor Assynt? It was a book about a walk from Lands End to John O'Groats avoiding motor roads where possible.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: GUEST,Gusty
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 10:57 AM

Just remembered one spotted outside a gate in County Mayo - 'No Parkin'. Presumably the owners had something against Yorkshire confections.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 11:45 AM

I want Spaw's 2nd version done in the voice of Tony Soprano. I would run out and buy that immediately.

Subject: RE: No Parkig
From: Becca72
Date: 13 Jan 10 - 04:10 PM

That was totally posted to the wrong thread...hehehe..sorry