License plate spotted the other day:
NNTLGBL
I’m 90% certain it’s supposed to be unintelligible…in which case, it isn’t.
Category: Signs of the Times
For Cooking Big Green Ham
I saw the “Big Green Egg” sign from across the freeway and immediately thought, “Do they have big green ham, too?”
Of course, since the Big Green Egg is a barbecue, if you find some big green ham, it’s the perfect way to cook it!
BRB K THX
Favorite license plate sighting of the day: “BRBKTHX.”
Goin’ On a Typo Hunt
NPR has an article on The Great Typo Hunt: Two friends cross the country with a Sharpie pen, correcting grammatical and spelling errors in road and shop signs. And there’s a book.
I may need this.
When I was in college in the mid-1990s, I kept a “Bent Offerings” newspaper cartoon on my bulletin board. One person was scrawling “I before E…” on a wall. Another was correcting a menu, muttering, “It’s Brussels Sprouts, not Brussel Sprouts!”. A third was examining someone’s T-shirt, disapprovingly asking, “Is that how they taught you to use an apostrophe?” The strip was captioned, “Roving Gangs of Rogue Proofreaders.”
The appeal hasn’t stopped. You may have noticed I have two categories on this blog devoted to weird/funny signs and mistakes in signs.
Yeah, this sounds like a good bet. Update: I finally read it.
Prophetic Plate
The parking lots at The District in Tustin, and the streets that run through them, are just plain horrible. They’re bad enough, in fact, that the last time we were there*, it wasn’t clear at first that the reason traffic was moving so slowly was that it was working around a car accident.
As I slowly drove past the crashed Lexus, we both looked toward it…and burst out laughing.
I felt awful for it…but the license plate was DIMWIT1.
Bonus in-joke: Katie asked me where the other two were.
*June 13, for the record.
Marmaduke Killers
Movie marquee spotted a couple of weeks ago:
Quick, someone call the ASPCA!
Landscape Under Renovation
Irvine is dreadfully afraid you might think the dead grass is the result of poor maintenance.
Apparently, they’re also concerned that the old Grass Under Renovation signs might not be inclusive enough.