Misread Marvels

What a bargain!

Was walking past a shop full of those ugly tourist sweaters (ever been to Sydney? You know the ones I'm talking about). One of them had a sign on it. Just seemed silly.

WHAT I THOUGHT IT SAID at first glance:
Was 100.00 -- Now 99.95

This is too funny to be true, thought I. It was.

WHAT IT ACTUALLY SAID:
Wool 100% -- Now 99.95

There's a sign on I-80 in Pa for SCOTT RUN . Everytime I see I think it says
Scrotum

This one is a *mis-heard* rather than *mis-read*

Hubby's mom was asking one year what he wanted for Christmas. I told her that he had been asking for a 4-slice toaster. Later on in the week, she called him and all I was getting was his end of the conversation. He kept saying , "Mom, I don't know what you're talking about. A floor-size poster? " Then he looked at me, "Sweetie...mom says she doesn't know where to go to look for a floor size poster" It took me a minute...

It was my brother. Off to his first year of college - an achitecture school. Dorm beds are longer than normal. Art students like black, right?

Mom orders appropriate sheets for him -- to be delivered, as it's away from home.

Couple of days later, call from a bewildered son: "Mom, thanks, but what are these? They're made for gorillas."

Now bewildered Mom says, "But they said the beds were extra long."

Son: "What beds?"

Turns out the shop had erred and sent him two extra-long fitted shirts. We still chuckle about it today.

I went through almost an entire of semester of calculus before I figured out that my instructor was saying "least common denominator" not "east comet denominator".

Warning: Puerile Content.

ANNIE said:

There's a sign on I-80 in Pa for SCOTT RUN . Everytime I see I think it says
Scrotum

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That reminds me of a sign along I-75 (?) going south, somewhere around Cincinnati/northern Kentucky... for a place called Big Bone Lick State Park.

Correspondingly, I remember a road sign on Cape Cod (near Dennis?) for a place called the Ram in the Thicket Restaurant.

Ahem.

In Colma, CA* there is a sign advertising long term storage next to a sign at the entrance of one of the local cemetaries.



*known as the City of the dead because there are more graves in Colma than live people

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