That sucks. I hate getting lost on the way to Coontcock.

You just go SOUHT to that little town where the UTES are in jail...

fickle floridian: /obvious

niiice!

The sign was probably made in China.

fickle floridian: That's what happens when you drop out of scohol.



/obvious


Actually, it's the sound many us make at the thought of driving towards, or heaven forbid, into Massachusetts.

This kind of thing actually really pisses me off. I mean, really? You couldn't read it once or twice over, maybe get your kid to double-check it? Do you really not give a shiat about doing anything properly?

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Who among us hasn't misspelled a word? Let he whose without sin cast the first stoen.

peppersnail: This kind of thing actually really pisses me off. I mean, really? You couldn't read it once or twice over, maybe get your kid to double-check it? Do you really not give a shiat about doing anything properly?

Union employees FTW

There are two misspellings there. It's supposed to read "coontoocock"!

Lately, I have been typing so fast I make these boo-boo's. I don't think it's a huge deal, as obviously it is a typographical error, not an error of intelligence. There is a huge lack of editors these days! Even just headline editors would help. But, no-one will employ anybody to double-check anything.
I fixed about 10 errors as I was typing. Surely at least one got through. (I just corrected 3 errors)

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There used to be a sign along the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles which read "Carpool Lane Ahaed". They fixed it much faster than I expected them to. Got a couple weeks of chuckles out of it, at least.

stirfrybry: peppersnail: This kind of thing actually really pisses me off. I mean, really? You couldn't read it once or twice over, maybe get your kid to double-check it? Do you really not give a shiat about doing anything properly?

Union employees FTW

BS

stirfrybry
Union employees FTW

nope, prison labor i bet

In my town they recently widened a 5 mile section of a major highway. After putting up the new signs I noticed that either way you travel you are heading down Highway 82 East. That's bound to screw up some poor traveler.

Drew built their system. There's no edit button. Once they post they are farked.

Gimme The Busket:

The good thing is they can just take it down and put up one w/ the correct spelling....the bad thing is that those signs cost about $250,000. So its not a cheap mistake....but it would probably make my day to drive down the road and have a good laught it.

OhGoodeee: The good thing is they can just take it down and put up one w/ the correct spelling....the bad thing is that those signs cost about $250,000. So its not a cheap mistake....but it would probably make my day to drive down the road and have a good laught it.

No way a sign cost a 1/4 of a milion dollars. That is teabagger derp. I do understand that there is cost associated with putting the sign sup, and making the sign. These cost should be expected, not written off.

chookbillion: OhGoodeee: The good thing is they can just take it down and put up one w/ the correct spelling....the bad thing is that those signs cost about $250,000. So its not a cheap mistake....but it would probably make my day to drive down the road and have a good laught it.

No way a sign cost a 1/4 of a milion dollars. That is teabagger derp. I do understand that there is cost associated with putting the sign sup, and making the sign. These cost should be expected, not written off.

For a government expense? Oh yeah, I'd believe it. I remember replacing a metal peg you could shiat out of even a mediocre machine shop in about ten minutes for $7,000. Military/Government pays way more for crap than should be allowed by law.

/1 1/4 inch peg, 1/8th inch square

chookbillion: OhGoodeee: The good thing is they can just take it down and put up one w/ the correct spelling....the bad thing is that those signs cost about $250,000. So its not a cheap mistake....but it would probably make my day to drive down the road and have a good laught it.

No way a sign cost a 1/4 of a milion dollars. That is teabagger derp. I do understand that there is cost associated with putting the sign sup, and making the sign. These cost should be expected, not written off.

Knowing government...they would pay a quarter million for a road sign

i kan stay that i don't misspell werds

I happen to live in Souht so shut the fark up.

tereklusec: chookbillion: OhGoodeee: The good thing is they can just take it down and put up one w/ the correct spelling....the bad thing is that those signs cost about $250,000. So its not a cheap mistake....but it would probably make my day to drive down the road and have a good laught it.

No way a sign cost a 1/4 of a milion dollars. That is teabagger derp. I do understand that there is cost associated with putting the sign sup, and making the sign. These cost should be expected, not written off.

For a government expense? Oh yeah, I'd believe it. I remember replacing a metal peg you could shiat out of even a mediocre machine shop in about ten minutes for $7,000. Military/Government pays way more for crap than should be allowed by law.

/1 1/4 inch peg, 1/8th inch square

Listen, the military overpays for weapons systems, not signs. My wife and I were both in the Navy. For a short time she worked in the sign shop over on the Guam Naval Base. They employee enlisted folk to make road signs...and I guarantee it didn't cost any more than the cost of the material (maybe $40K for the metal), and 10 cents for the labor.

/total guesstimate on the cost of a piece of sheet metal.

Live free or dei?

tereklusec:

For a government expense? Oh yeah, I'd believe it. I remember replacing a metal peg you could shiat out of even a mediocre machine shop in about ten minutes for $7,000. Military/Government pays way more for crap than should be allowed by law.

/1 1/4 inch peg, 1/8th inch square

The reason that metal peg costs $7K is because clandestine operations are secretly funded by added those costs to military/government projects.

/snerk

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You just go SOUHT to that little town where the UTES are in jail...


Excuse me, did you say UTE?

AverageAmericanGuy: Who among us hasn't misspelled a word? Let he whose without sin cast the first stoen.

True, we all misspeel woreds and make typos. But when you are dealing with a sign that large and specialized which costs a ton of money to produce (not sure how much they cost, but I'm sure they must be at least in the higher 3 digits), you'd think that it would be reviewed a few times before production and display.

powhound: tereklusec: chookbillion: OhGoodeee: The good thing is they can just take it down and put up one w/ the correct spelling....the bad thing is that those signs cost about $250,000. So its not a cheap mistake....but it would probably make my day to drive down the road and have a good laught it.

No way a sign cost a 1/4 of a milion dollars. That is teabagger derp. I do understand that there is cost associated with putting the sign sup, and making the sign. These cost should be expected, not written off.

For a government expense? Oh yeah, I'd believe it. I remember replacing a metal peg you could shiat out of even a mediocre machine shop in about ten minutes for $7,000. Military/Government pays way more for crap than should be allowed by law.

/1 1/4 inch peg, 1/8th inch square

Listen, the military overpays for weapons systems, not signs. My wife and I were both in the Navy. For a short time she worked in the sign shop over on the Guam Naval Base. They employee enlisted folk to make road signs...and I guarantee it didn't cost any more than the cost of the material (maybe $40K for the metal), and 10 cents for the labor.

/total guesstimate on the cost of a piece of sheet metal.

Came here to say something along the lines of this, except I work for the Department of Transportation (y'know, the people who actually put up those damn signs). Signs are handled "in-house", that is to say there's a department (several, in fact) devoted to making road signs. The costs are simply the price of the raw material plus labor, and as a state employee let me assure you that there's no chance of them paying a lot for the labor side of things.

Now where they do waste money by the bucket: office supplies. I know of an office that spent $120 in one order. What did they buy? Three-ring binders. Two of them. This is what happens when your purchasing department has an exclusive contract with some online office supply company you've never heard of.

/Note to self: quit job, start online office supply company.

Also, depending on how the sign was made they may be able to re-letter it rather than being forced to remake it. At the very least they can just sandblast off the colored layer and use the metal to make other, less-sturdy signs out of it.

Embarrassing mistake, but not nearly as costly as most people might assume (and especially not as costly as the derp brigade thinks it is).

new_york_monty: There are two misspellings there. It's supposed to read "coontoocock"!

No, they maneged to spell Hopkinton right.

tereklusec: chookbillion: OhGoodeee: The good thing is they can just take it down and put up one w/ the correct spelling....the bad thing is that those signs cost about $250,000. So its not a cheap mistake....but it would probably make my day to drive down the road and have a good laught it.

No way a sign cost a 1/4 of a milion dollars. That is teabagger derp. I do understand that there is cost associated with putting the sign sup, and making the sign. These cost should be expected, not written off.

For a government expense? Oh yeah, I'd believe it. I remember replacing a metal peg you could shiat out of even a mediocre machine shop in about ten minutes for $7,000. Military/Government pays way more for crap than should be allowed by law.

/1 1/4 inch peg, 1/8th inch square

It has been theorized that the military deliberately puts down inflated costs for mundane things to hide the cost of things that need to be kept under wraps, lest our enemies learn of their existence/ development.

yukichigai: Embarrassing mistake, but not nearly as costly as most people might assume (and especially not as costly as the derp brigade thinks it is).

You have to remember, these people need to assume that every part of government is exactly as dysfunctional as it would have to be to justify their position about the uselessness of government.

It's like the anti-vaxxers talking about the conspiracies of Big Pharma, completely missing the totally dickbag things that the pharmaceutical companies actually do.

Am I the only one annoyed that they took quotes from Facebook to fill their article?

Just stoppin' by to say:
All you Yankees who try to spread the mistaken idea that the South is illiterate: nyah nyah. That sign is obviously in the North (hence the need to direct people South). If that sign were in the South do doubt the word on top of it would be "North" and spelled "N-O-R-T-H" not "N-O-R-H-T."

Yes I do understand that it's for some place apparently in New England, but that's not the point.

PS And I stand by my grammar, too. If you think I should have written "someplace" and that "some place" is a mistake, check your grammar guides. Both are correct, with slightly different meanings!

tower of pisa: Just stoppin' by to say:
All you Yankees who try to spread the mistaken idea that the South is illiterate: nyah nyah. That sign is obviously in the North (hence the need to direct people South). If that sign were in the South do doubt the word on top of it would be "North" and spelled "N-O-R-T-H" not "N-O-R-H-T."

Yes I do understand that it's for some place apparently in New England, but that's not the point.

PS And I stand by my grammar, too. If you think I should have written "someplace" and that "some place" is a mistake, check your grammar guides. Both are correct, with slightly different meanings!

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The English is clear enough to lorry drivers - but the Welsh reads "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."

That second one mdae my morning.

/Just re-read that. I think I'll leave it.