It’s not quite as good as the Microsoft Surface billboards I saw a few years back, but it’s the first pair since then to prompt me to share a photo. The two signs are usually rented out together, but advertisers typically just pick two boards from a campaign. I appreciate the effort to design a pair of signs that only really make sense together.
Even if it does seem to suggest that you’ll be dismembered in order to fit better on the airplane.
I’ve been driving past this billboard on PCH all week. I can only assume it’s part of a series of “The perfect mattress for ____” ads. Either that or they’re going for some serious niche marketing.
The kiddo was drawing with sidewalk chalk today, after looking at a round-up of panorama fails. So he drew one.
When I first spotted this sign, the ampersand in the middle looked like just one more A. It only resolved as I got closer.
Update: Sometime in January they replaced the ampersand with an E. No idea why. They didn’t use it somewhere else. Or maybe they did and changed it again, but didn’t bother to put it back where it made more sense.
Now it really looks like someone tried to write a burp — even in broad daylight!
This sign pairing has been there for years, and we finally picked up enough round tuits to snap a photo of it.
Usually we try to catch funny signs like this as soon as possible. You can bet M’hael’s wasn’t up for very long. But sometimes, as in this case, it’s not something broken, it’s just something odd, and it sticks around for a while.
Even so, we’ve missed a few.
The one that started Katie off on this was a demolished restaurant with only a port-a-potty left standing…and a sign saying “Ask about our banquet facilities.”
I drove past “Victory Foam” every morning for a year and never stopped for it.
Someone scrawled “Life is full of bumps” in loopy text inside the Sepulveda Tunnel under LAX, and I spent months trying to decide if there was a good way to stop safely, or walk in on foot.
KFC swapped out their “Hot & fresh breast meal” really fast, but at least we caught the Hot & Fresh Strips meal!
On a similar note, there was a car billboard on the freeway advertising “The four-crotch crotch rocket.” And a restaurant called “Seaman’s Inn” that Katie saw on a family vacation and couldn’t even comment on it.
It took a decade to catch another “ELF STORAGE” after missing the first one.
Just last month I missed the local Round Table’s Back to the Future reference by a day. (It was a week before the actual date, and I figured they’d keep it up that long. I came back the next day and it had been replaced by a new quote.)
Grammar fail? Or maybe they only sell things like anvils, anchovies, aardvark chow…
(Still, better than last year’s SARS Outlet.)
Cookies, salsa, breakfast cereal (two kinds!), barbecue sauce, soup, applesauce, hard cider…
and Pumpkin Spice Kale Chips.
That’s it, I’m out.
