Here’s another dose of “English FAIL” for your amusement:
Sometimes, the spellchecker isn’t enough to save a sign’s maker from embarrassment.
These have been up on a residential block near Kyla’s place for months while an ugly-as-sin lump of condominiums goes in. I finally remembered to take a picture before construction completed…
Oh look, it’s a bit of English FAIL on the way to work this morning! This, near the Washington County Fairgrounds…
In other news, my new phone’s camera seems not to suck nearly as much as the xv6800’s… nice, eh?
Here’s a taste of how my mind works:
There’s a cardboard sign bent partway around a streetsign-pole at the end of our street. It’s for a garage sale, but the way it’s bent it reads “RAGE ALE” from most legible angles. What’s also odd is that there’s another sign at the corner of the block on the way to work, similarly bent, also thus advertising a RAGE ALE.
So. As I leave home, I pass the first sign at the end of the block. As I approach work, I pass the other sign at the start of the block. This is a strange sort of symmetry in my morning.
The world is weird. And this is the sort of thing which my old superstitious mind would interpret as a Sign Of Some Portent. Now I just think it’s silly… and wonder if anyone’s trademarked the name Rage Ale, because c’mon, we all know somebody who’d drink that.
