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[Ripplin]

I used to have a bunch of pictures from around town of mistakes made on signs and such, but lost most of them. I have a few new ones and continue to take more when I see an opportunity. A friend of mine that went to school here used to say it was no good, and sometimes I do believe the education system has failed people here.

Here are some good examples:


This was on every dashboard in a fleet of 20-30 cabs. (I know this is also a cost issue, i.e. they can't afford to fix them, but it still made me laugh! )


Saw this one last night.

I also see a TON of punctuation errors around. Most of the time, it involves superflous apostrophes, like apple's, orange's, wire's, box's, etc... Many of them were found at a health food store where every single price sticker showed the name of the company; Natures's Best. Caesar is also spelled Ceasar in many menus. Sorry, menu's. Check your menu next time you eat out.

There was also the spray painted 'NO PARKIG' at Honda (fixed quickly) and the three huge signs in their lot advertising the Honda Ridegline (Ridgeline).

There's also the local pizza joint that's open from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM every day. (did have a picture of that, but I don't think that sign is there anymore)

I also used to stay at the, according to the front door mat, Qulaity Inn in Romulus, Michigan. The quality of the service was just about as good.

P.S. I turneded it into a blog: http://ripplinsrederick.blogspot.com/

[Prince Of Darkness]

I took this picture.



I like how this is a language program.

[Ripplin]

Prefect!

[weener]

Seen in the trash at Sky Harbor airport:

[Ripplin]

I like how the name Mary is a verb and it's a statement rather than a question.

[Ashane]

there's a sign above the sidewalk close to my work that says "Your going the wrong way! blah-blah is back here", or something to that effect, heh.

[Wizwars]

The best thing I ever saw was in my neighborhood in Anchorage, I can't remember exactly what it was for but they had the word "school" painted on the pavement (maybe "school parking" or something like that) and it was fucking spelled "shcool".

Definitely keep your kids away from that school.

[mooniniteG]

There's a bubble tea place in Seattle that has a ton of spelling mistakes on their menu. My favorite is "buleberry".

[Ripplin]

Here's another one I forgot about:



And I don't like pineapple much, either, especially not on its own! Oh, and they misspell it in French on the other side of the label. (jaqcuier instead of jacquier) I've been buying it for several years now and they have yet to fix it.

Oh, and there's a Chinese restaurant called The Bleu Garden here. Not sure what the story is on that one, because I kinda think it also had the same name when it was the previous restaurant.

[Beef-Clef]

I like how the name Mary is a verb and it's a statement rather than a question.

Maybe it's a demand for a foursome between Will, Mary, the sign-holder, and the sign-reader.

[Demonstray]

I like how the name Mary is a verb and it's a statement rather than a question.

Maybe it's a demand for a foursome between Will, Mary, the sign-holder, and the sign-reader.

That may be the most clever interpretation of anything ever.

You win first place and a box of donuts.

[the Wozz]

HEY HAVE YOU GUYZ EVUR SEEN ENGRISH.COM? THEM JAPANEZ PELPE CANT ENGLISH FER SH8IT

[Klatrymadon]

I'm still always thoroughly amused whenever I see a grocer's apostrophe. "Potato's 30p", etc. I'm enough of a boring pedant to actually ask the shopkeeper if I can see the 30p that belongs to the potato, and the potato that's so sophisticated it has the ability to accrue wealth. I'd very much like to meet this capitalist potato.

Then I threaten to sue them under the Advertising Standards Act for hawking a potato which can't possibly exist.

[Ken Oh]

Posted in front of the Safeway near my work. I love having a camera on my phone.



Bonus pic (not a spelling mistake, still a dumb-ass):

Spoiler

At my work, I've earned 2-3 dents on each side of my relatively new car from idiots. I've taken 2 measures against this: I park with one side to a curb, effectively cutting the chances of a dent by 50% and on top of that I park extra close to the curb when I do it.

Anyway, I come outside one day last week to find this.


I'm extra close to the curb but I still had to squeeze to get into my car. Fucking dumb-ass hummer driver. I'm glad your company went bottom-up.

[Ripplin]

HEY HAVE YOU GUYZ EVUR SEEN ENGRISH.COM?

Big fan for many years! But the stuff on that site gets a pass in this thread because this is about people who should know better.