No Parkig

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