Man, there are a lot of weird things going on this sign. My post’s title gives away the punchline — the word “holiday” has obviously been misspelled — but the more I look at this note the weirder it becomes. First of all, it’s a handwritten note that uses fourteen different fonts. I mean, seriously. I’ve seen fewer fonts on ransom notes. For example, while the letter “E” in “We” looks relatively normal, you’ve got that “E” in “closed” that’s twice as wide as any other letter, and the “E” in the second “We” is the only letter written in… (read more)

Due to the recent nationwide salmonella outbreak there appears to be a shortage of both tomatoes and the letter “E”. Spotted at a local Sonic restaurant. I think my favorite thing about this one is how it is stressed in all capitals, as if to say, “ATTENTION CUSTOMERS, THIS WORD IS SPELLED WRONG.”

And, obviously, un-spellchecked signs.

Back when I was four-years-old, I remember watching an episode of The Electric Company that explained how apostrophes worked. The short cartoon involved two words, a bulldozer, and a crane. In the cartoon, two words were pushed together, like DO and NOT. Eventually they would get pushed together so tightly that the lettter “O” would disintegrate, leaving DON(pile of rubble)T. A crane would then pick up a piece of the “O” that looked like an apostrophe, and hang it in the air, spelling “DON’T”. The idea, which I was able to comprehend at the age of four, was that the… (read more)

Gift Basket’s ready to go. Complete with an unnecessary apostrophe.