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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! |
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Subject: RE: No Parkig From: King Brilliant Date: 01 Jul 99 - 10:34 AM Hehehe :-) |
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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" |
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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". |
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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 |
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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. |
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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! |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Allan C. Date: 11 Jun 01 - 03:16 PM refresh |
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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." |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Allan C. Date: 11 Jun 01 - 03:52 PM Related thread |
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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". |
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Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Allan C. Date: 11 Jun 01 - 03:57 PM There's no accounting for bad taste. |
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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 The edited version read
ANGER ZONE He planned on ending the book with the following sequence
ONE WAY Don Firth |
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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! |
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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 |
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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..... |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.) |
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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." |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Don Firth Date: 12 Jun 01 - 08:10 PM Theater marquis from years ago:
MOTHER WORE THIGHTS Don Firth |
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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.) |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 ..... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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* |
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Subject: RE: No Parkig From: Skipjack K8 Date: 13 Jun 01 - 12:12 PM Fifteen-love! *BG*ing, too! |
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