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Posted: May 26th, 2009 under typography.
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Comment from KAD
Time: May 27, 2009, 10:14 am

OH! that took me forever to see what they really meant.

Comment from sfmike
Time: May 28, 2009, 6:18 pm

That’s the best bad signage around, although you might want to check out this recent addition over at “Rangelife”:

http://rangelife.typepad.com/rangelife/2009/05/perfect-score.html

Comment from Nancy
Time: May 28, 2009, 6:54 pm

ROFLOL! Not that this old lady would be interested in anything like that….at least, not these days.

Comment from Shalom Ormsby
Time: June 1, 2009, 5:33 pm

Good one! Like the previous commenter, it took me a while to figure out what it was supposed to be. Amazing that they didn’t see that coming. Or perhaps they did, like FCUK?

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