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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
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Posted: Sat Jun 22 21:04:28 1985
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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".