Okay, hooligans, listen up. Hey. Hooligans! EYES OVER HERE, PLEASE. This is the most important piece of information you will learn all year—this WILL be on the test.
When defacing the word “PUBLIC” on a public library sign, the correct letter to knock down is the “L.”
The incorrect letter to knock down? ANY OTHER LETTER ON THE SIGN (see Fig. 1).
- Fig. 1: Ur doing it wrong.
Next week’s lesson: Canal Market, Ship Canal Bridge, that topographical map of Hood Canal on the ferry (hint: “C”). Sigh. It’s going to be a long semester.
No no — the real mystery here is what someone is planning to do with those two lower case, serif b’s.
lol poo lick
@1
Exactly. This is some guerrilla art project, which simply *must* have two lower-case b’s. Thus “Ballard Branch” remains intact.
Presumably Rapscallionism 101 is a prereq?
Isn’t there an app to provide spell checking for vandals?
Dang Nabbit!!!
At least they didn’t replace the letters with ones taken from a Comic Sans font.
In a similar vein.
Huh. Lindy, I wold have figured you’d be one to appreciate Andy Kaufman style hooliganism.
hip anal rid e ?
Am I clever enough for sign alteration?
taxpayer cost to repair?
Let’s all head to Black Angus and shoot out the “g” in the big neon sign!
Barebacking?
They coulda gone for Pubic Ball ranch.
I once worked for a government agency that had “Public” in the title. I swear someone should have removed “pubic” from the spellchecker dictionary so that it would get caught as a misspelling. There were some letters and memos with truly unfortunate phrasing.
It was a Beastie Boys fan.
I took a transportation economics class a few years back and the professor had a few powerpoint slides about pubic transit. The entire class snickered and not one of us said a word.
I don’t mean to give vandals any ideas but there’s a huge lit orange PUBLIC STORAGE sign near my home and I’ve always had a fantasy of, just once, somehow taking out the L and the STO.
I saw a lighted Black Angus sign with the wrong letter burned out and my disappointment lasts to this day.
I’m surprised the hooligans could get in there since the vagrants occupy that spot 24-7. Unless….
Ha! I was just in Seattle last weekend and walked by that sign and had this exact same thought. Why the b? Why not the l? Oh, to know the minds of these hooligans….
@15…ah yes…spent many a year working for/with pubic health. The typos were frequently hysterical and often apt (especially memos dealing with STDs…after all isn’t syphilis prevention a form of pubic health?).
I steal the H’s in the Krispy Kreme Doughnuts signs.
Back in Saint Paul there’s a huge sign for Schmidt Beer downtown. Apparently it wasn’t that hard to take out every other letter with a bb gun or a .22.
Classic move is to hang a wig over the “L”
When you’re out of Schmidt, you’re out of beer.