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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:52 pm
I laugh every time I look at the "20 items or less" signs. I think it is a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that whoever designed those signs was too stupid to write: "20 items or fewer."
What other botched signs have you found? Do they annoy you, sadden you, or humour you?
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:27 pm
"Antique furniture made daily"
Sorry. Dumb.com is full of things like this.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:39 am
Poorly Written Sign These doors are covered by surveilance camera's any unauthorised use will be reported to centre management. I quote said sign verbatim. The only punctuation mark in the middle of that sentence (which should actually be two sentences, or at least two clauses) is an incorrectly-used apostrophe.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:06 pm
Whole Foods says fewer! One of the many good things about that supermarket.
I haven't seen any other botched signs but Lynne Truss is full of them.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:41 pm
There was a sign in our public toilet saying: "PLEASE fush when your done."
I acquired a sharpie and corrected the sign, fuming all the way. This sign was made by a sophomore in college.
crying
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:01 am
Even though I agree with its goals, I don't like the name of "one less car" because it should be "one fewer car".
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:16 pm
Cause a thousand words,
Call out through the ages,
They'll fly to you,I'm sure I've found plenty of botched signs.
And I literally laughed out loud at "PLEASE fush when your done."
xD. Even though I can't see ,
I know they're reaching you,
Suspended on silver wings.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:58 pm
From a Golfcourse: "Any persons (except players) caught collecting golf balls on this course will be prosecuted, and have their balls removed." eek
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:32 pm
Kuo51 From a Golfcourse: "Any persons (except players) caught collecting golf balls on this course will be prosecuted, and have their balls removed." eek
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:29 pm
I've seen plenty of funny signs, and plenty of gramatically incorrect ones. They're inevitable, just like death and cheating taxes.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:26 pm
Well, it turns out that the special on friday is "baked potatoe"
burning_eyes
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:37 pm
Haha! These are great. There's a sign at a furniture store near my house that says, "We Sell Ashley!" rofl
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:08 am
On the topic of using "less" where "fewer" should be used, I've inherited a pile of "one less car" stickers (as well as some others) which I'm supposed to sell, and I find it annoying that the grammatically incorrect "one less car" sticker is the most popular of all the stickers.
I want to print some "one car fewer" stickers and sell those instead, but I'm worried that no one will buy them (and I can't stop selling the incorrect ones because I'd be letting down the people from whom I inherited the stickers).
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:13 am
Kuo51 From a Golfcourse: "Any persons (except players) caught collecting golf balls on this course will be prosecuted, and have their balls removed." eek Yikes, that's one way to scare off potential thiefs! eek
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:03 pm
They corrected that at my local Stop & Shop. Now it says '12 items or fewer'.
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