Manure, anyone?

[cinelli]

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For the sake of the thread, the image was a sign saying "Baged manure fore sale"

(chas49)

This sign was seen in rural Warwickshire. It takes some doing - two spelling mistakes in four words.

Cinelli

[UncleEbenezer]

Come on. In this context more than any, surely you should be able to write smelling pistakes!

[bungeejumper]

I recall seeing a sign on a farm gate. "CUCUMBER'S EGGS", it said. Well, at least somebody thought about punctuation. Nice try.

BJ

[88V8]

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[WickedLester]

I recall seeing a sign on a farm gate. "CUCUMBER'S EGGS", it said. Well, at least somebody thought about punctuation. Nice try.

BJ

Reminds me of the time my English Doctor asked to look at my colon; the rest is history.

[scrumpyjack]

Moderator Message:
Image taken from Google Streetview has been removed for copyright reasons.

For the sake of the thread, the image was a sign saying "Baged manure fore sale"

(chas49)

This sign was seen in rural Warwickshire. It takes some doing - two spelling mistakes in four words.

Cinelli

OK so he's a sh?t s(p)eller

[cinelli]

Last week I revisited the scene of the crime and can now post my own photograph, with no worries about copyright.

Cinelli

[stewamax]

Not just spelling...
When the St John the Baptist Roman Catholic church in Melton Mowbray was renovated a few years ago, the new large sign by the door read:

St John
The Baptist Church

which will have caused surprise to visiting Baptists.

[Hallucigenia]

Apostrophes can get their own back, back in 1981 there was a market stall advertising :

ROYAL WEDDING PEN'S FOR SALE

except the paint of the apostrophe had dribbled to make an "I".

which will have caused surprise to the then-Lady Di, unless she was the one selling off the Crown Jewels...

[WrenChasen]

I recall seeing a sign on a farm gate. "CUCUMBER'S EGGS", it said. Well, at least somebody thought about punctuation. Nice try.

A year late to the party, but I've just seen this and it occurred to me they might have had a hen called Cucumber.

[Charlottesquare]

Apostrophes can get their own back, back in 1981 there was a market stall advertising :

ROYAL WEDDING PEN'S FOR SALE

except the paint of the apostrophe had dribbled to make an "I".

which will have caused surprise to the then-Lady Di, unless she was the one selling off the Crown Jewels...

A bit like the sign at Haymarket, Edinburgh, that was there for years- office development. First window had "To " pasted on, second window had "Let", pasted on ,the vertical divide between the windows completed the word.

[88V8]

More pesky punctuation..



Source... my picture files.

V8

[Hallucigenia]

More pesky punctuation..



Source... my picture files.

V8

In the context, that one is probably deliberate?

I know a retailer who deliberately puts errors into their signs so that pedants start to talk about them, they reckon they have quite a good conversion rate from gullible pedants.

[UncleEbenezer]

More pesky punctuation..



Source... my picture files.

V8

In the context, that one is probably deliberate?

I know a retailer who deliberately puts errors into their signs so that pedants start to talk about them, they reckon they have quite a good conversion rate from gullible pedants.

My natural inclination there is to read a double negative - as in the famous advert. One for the road (hic)!

[bungeejumper]

I know a retailer who deliberately puts errors into their signs so that pedants start to talk about them, they reckon they have quite a good conversion rate from gullible pedants.

[/quote]
Our local small town has a pub called the Grapes. Some thirty years ago, they had the hanging sign repainted, so that the eponymous grapes were now replaced with a lovely bunch of bananas.

And they waited, and waited, and waited for the surreal penny to drop.....

And to this day, thirty years on, the local scrumpyheads are still coming in to tell the landlord about his embarrassing mistake, but never mind, they won't tell anybody about it, fnarr, harharhar, just thought he ought to know. Mine's a firkin, landlord, and it had better be better than the last firkin brew.

Meanwhile, the pub across the road renamed itself the Parson's Nose and had its sign repainted to represent....

Guess what, a parson's nose. Not a chicken's private parts at all. I expect they're still waiting for the local pendants to advise them of their mistake.....

BJ

[Lootman]

I know a retailer who deliberately puts errors into their signs so that pedants start to talk about them, they reckon they have quite a good conversion rate from gullible pedants.

Our local small town has a pub called the Grapes. Some thirty years ago, they had the hanging sign repainted, so that the eponymous grapes were now replaced with a lovely bunch of bananas.

And they waited, and waited, and waited for the surreal penny to drop.....

And to this day, thirty years on, the local scrumpyheads are still coming in to tell the landlord about his embarrassing mistake, but never mind, they won't tell anybody about it, fnarr, harharhar, just thought he ought to know. Mine's a firkin, landlord, and it had better be better than the last firkin brew.

Meanwhile, the pub across the road renamed itself the Parson's Nose and had its sign repainted to represent....

Guess what, a parson's nose. Not a chicken's private parts at all. I expect they're still waiting for the local pendants to advise them of their mistake.....

BJ

I went into a chippie once and noticed that "Stake Pie" was on the menu.

Naturally I could not resist being the 9000th customer to bring the error to the owner's attention. And of course he had his reply all ready for me, having evidently noticed the petty picky pedantry dripping off me:

"I spell it that way because there is no steak in it".

[Dicky99]

Here's a sign I took a photo of on a walk last summer in Hertfordshire.

[stewamax]

Normal for t'mill people in Yorkshire and Lancashire.