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p38arover
18th February 2006, 02:49 PM
A spell check program wouldn't see anything wrong with this sign outside the Red Cow Hotel in Penrith. My wife noticed it this morning.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Is it only open for babies or can I have a feed as well? 8O https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Ron

one_iota
18th February 2006, 02:52 PM
Originally posted by p38arover
A spell check program wouldn't see anything wrong with this sign outside the Red Cow Hotel in Penrith. My wife noticed it this morning.

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/thebecketts/images/brassiere%20now%20open.jpg

Is it only open for babies or can I have a feed as well? 8O https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Ron

So it's a topless bar then.

Trust you to spot that Ron...I guess it combines two of your interests :wink: or is that three :?

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Ace
21st February 2006, 03:15 PM
Not good at all, you would thing they would have noticed it when they viewed it before putting it up. Obviously not. I hope you rang them and pointed their error out ron.


What was that add for where the guy was sign writing the Broncos onto the grass at their stadium in QLD and wrote Boncos instead? https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

rick130
21st February 2006, 04:52 PM
Oh dear oh dear..... https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
that will give anyone getting off the train there a chuckle.

Ron, how much of the old 'Cow' is left ??
Used to go to school with one of the (then) publicans daughter many moons ago.....

maggsie
21st February 2006, 05:04 PM
talking about signwriting errors reminds me of the signwriter in a company I worked for in the 80's. Two notable mentions were:

In a hospital his sign read: LAUNDRY SHOOT

The AMPOL sign on the driveway roof was painted: AMOL

p38arover
21st February 2006, 05:15 PM
In 1971 I was working in Carnarvon in WA. The local phone directory had an advert in the (then) Pink Pages for AWA PUBIC Address Systems. I think I've still got the advert.

Ron

DEFENDERZOOK
21st February 2006, 05:17 PM
<span style="color:blue">tyhe....?</span>

p38arover
21st February 2006, 05:31 PM
[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">tyhe....?</span>

Boy, you're quick. I saw it as soon as I pressed Submit and went straight back in to correct it - but you beat me to it. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Ron

p38arover
21st February 2006, 05:35 PM
Originally posted by Ace+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ace)</div><div class='quotemain'>Not good at all, you would thing they would have noticed it when they viewed it before putting it up. Obviously not. I hope you rang them and pointed their error out ron.[/b]

I did - and the bloke didn't believe me. He had to go and check.

<!--QuoteBegin-rick130
Oh dear oh dear..... https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
that will give anyone getting off the train there a chuckle.[/quote]

I doubt many saw it. I showed the pix at work and no one saw the error.


Originally posted by rick130
Ron, how much of the old 'Cow' is left ??
Used to go to school with one of the (then) publicans daughter many moons ago.....

A lot of the later additions have been pulled down and the pub is being restored (as I understand it) - all as part of the new Penrith Plaza expansion which wraps around the back of it.

Ron

drivesafe
21st February 2006, 10:53 PM
One for you Ron.

Many years ago when I was a suburban train drive in Sydney, I was waiting on one of the platforms at Central to do a crew change with a train that was to terminate.

Just as the train was arriving, the station attendant ( of foreign origin ) announces “Thisa train exterminates”

Needless to say, no one got on ( most were to busy laughing ) https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

DEFENDERZOOK
21st February 2006, 11:18 PM
<span style="color:blue">sounds like something hitler may have had.....</span>

p38arover
21st February 2006, 11:19 PM
Originally posted by drivesafe
Just as the train was arriving, the station attendant ( of foreign origin ) announces “Thisa train exterminates”
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Shades of the Daleks, Tim! https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Have a listen to these CityRail announcements - I reckon they've been made by CityRail SPI (Station Passenger Information) operators (I've used the SPI equipment in the past):

http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=11437

Ron

FenianEel
22nd February 2006, 10:11 AM
There used to be a massive sign upstairs on the JetCat to Manly, when I lived there.

NO ALCAHOL ALLOWED ON BOARD

Must've been ****ed when they made the sign https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

gruntfuttock
22nd February 2006, 12:00 PM
If you cannot write French, then don't!