A while ago I posted words to the effect of how I keep reading headlines, notices, billboard ads - any text of any kind - wrongly, especially if it's just in passing.
Well since that post, it hasn't really happened, and I wondered if my having written about it may have somehow served to stop it happening.
No, since it happened today as I was on the train to London, and saw a little litter notice just under the window: which, according to my eyes at least, read
Please help keep your brain tidy
If only I could...if only I could.
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and of course clean.... nothing worse than a dirty .....
xx
Well Fire Byrd has a point, Trousers. We must all fight the good fight. But really, I wouldn't worry - the Signs are everywhere and very often hidden. Just as well really.
http://tinyurl.com/d9no7o
Well, trews there is a wee bit of poster psyops/conditioning going on at the moment.
So, you are not alone in noticing things.
PS your captcha reads 'farti'.
that will certainly be thought for the day! and i can't quite believe it myself, word veri is esubtel - how apt!
I misread stuff all the time including emails, infact I once nearly sent one that started with 'I'm just sending you a genital reminder'..... Can I be in your club?!
Well, of course fire byrd, it just wouldn't do, now would it! x
Signs, the signs are indeed everywhere, and often quite loaded.
Bloody hell merk, that's a bit...well I'm not sure I have the words, I just grimaced. Not good though, is it, the way they go about things? I may go back and read the comments at some point. Nice captcha too :)
mei, your comment made me wonder - if anyone did have an untidy brain, how would they know what their thought for the day was? Another word ver that made me smile too..
Janette, , 'course you can be in my club! Just as well you checked that email before you sent it out :)
i wanna be in the club too - i rarely do this with signs, but when i'm reading books it happens all the time. and i stick letters in words that don't belong there in my mind. for years i thought the name 'Alicia' as found in Enid Blyton's Mallory Towers books was actually 'Aladica'. I don't know where I got the 'd' from.
b, you're more than welcome to join the club!
I must admit I set the bar high some years ago, after a bad night working in a residential unit - fire alarms going off at unearthly hours, and all the attendant chaos. Anyway, in a very addled state when I was making myself breakfast, I picked up a tin of baked beans, which I read as naked babes - a perfect anagram.
Should I really be sharing this?
i'm glad you did - hilarious! :)
I have the opposite problem. I take things too literally. I don't misread, I just misunderstand. Its great when people think I'm actually really witty and dead pan, they laugh and it gives me time to work it out.
I think I probably do that as well sometimes, ejenne :)
Which reminds me of this.
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