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Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 8:44 pm
by Mrs C.
There was (and may still be!) an official signpost in a carpark in Torquay saying PEDESTRAINS - a bit difficult to alter that one!
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:40 pm
by cj
We've been out on a little bank holiday jaunt and passed a professionally produced sign in Roborough (just outside Plymouth) advertising
strawberrie's.
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 5:52 pm
by Mrs C.
I also remember seeing a sign at a farmshop "Tom`s and fresh collie`s".
I`ve also seen "assorted gateaux`s" on a restaurant menu.
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 6:21 pm
by Katharine
I don't know whether it is an urban myth or not, but the greengrocer's apostrophe is supposed to increase sales. Presumably irate customers see something they want to buy when they go in to complain!
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 6:30 pm
by Mrs C.
well there`s one thing to be said for these signs - at least they are noticed!
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 6:32 pm
by jtaylor
Shouldn't that be notice'd?
J
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 6:34 pm
by J.R.
On a similar vein, but NOT spelling or punctuation, there use to be a sign at a small-holding on the A.24, just outside Horsham on the way to Dorking.
It was in amongst the others advertising cabbages, potatoes etc.
"D.I.Y. MANURE."
I must admit it made my mind boggle somewhat !
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 7:55 pm
by Vonny
J.R. wrote:"D.I.Y. MANURE."
There's a sign advertising "Manuare" outside a farm a mile or so from here. And it's been there for years (the sign that is).
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 9:07 pm
by cj
Vonny wrote: "Manuare"
Is that manure you spread using your hands?
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 10:03 pm
by Vonny
cj wrote:Vonny wrote: "Manuare"
Is that manure you spread using your hands?
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 9:36 am
by cj
Vonny wrote:cj wrote:Vonny wrote: "Manuare"
Is that manure you spread using your hands?
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:53 pm
by midget
Alovely one on Radio4 PM today. There was a piece about the RSPB alledgedly banning the word Cock, as in cock blackbird. A spokeswoman said this wasn't really so, that the electronic monitor had replaced the word with ****. As soon as it was brought to their attention, they had deleted it from the dictionary used by the machine, so there would be no more "Asterixes". She said that at least 3 times. That little Gaul does get about.
Maggie
****
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:05 pm
by Angela Woodford
Very funny Maggie!
Very recently in a Kent local free paper was a letter of protest (I've chucked the paper now) from a woman complaining of a neighbour who was keeping poultry. It complained "and his cock wakes me every morning at dawn..."
Munch
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:36 pm
by englishangel
Headline on a local paper billboard today.
"Samaritan saves women's life"
It was one woman by the way. A council employee found a woman slumped in her car with an empty tabket bottle beside her.
I've never known -
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:52 pm
by Angela Woodford
Just seen mens' shaving ad on box. Should he be trimming "sideboards" or "sideburns"?