Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nrcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!nrcvax!jt From: jt@nrcvax.UUCP (Jerry Toporek) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.puzzle Subject: Re: words and their opposites Message-ID: <177@nrcvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 21:04:28 EDT Article-I.D.: nrcvax.177 Posted: Sat Jun 22 21:04:28 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 05:12:57 EDT References: <1542@orca.UUCP> <1786@think.ARPA> <3219@dartvax.UUCP> <1429@ecsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jt@nrcvax.UUCP (Jerry Toporek) Followup-To: net.nlang Organization: Network Research Research Corp. Oxnard,CA Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.nlang:3267 net.puzzle:943 Summary: In article <1429@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes: >The "UNTIED AIRLINES" sign on the baggage cart was, I suspect, a >deliberate joke by an employee. Some employees are like that. For >years somebody at the Kroger near Duke has been turning off the K and >the R in the sign and leaving OGER. > >Which brings up an interesting puzzle: What other famous signs can be >amusingly corrupted by selective darkening of individual letters? My favorite has always been at the Ramada Inn by the airport in Rochester, NY. The bar there was a notorious pick-up joint. For some reason they couldn't keep the last "A" lit, so the sign would bekon to folks on their way home on the expressway: "RAMAD INN".