Illegal in Tasmania
Indulge me for a second here, and read the sign on this barrier quickly:
I’ve been walking past these roadworks in Mercer St for a month now, and I’ve always thought it read “Morepork Frenching”, which I believe is illegal in Tasmania. It took someone smarter to me to point out this mistake, but as Gestalt psychologists and Paris Hilton’s paparazzi know, once something has been seen, it cannot be unseen.
June 26, 2009 at 8:26 am
I saw these dudes from a bus the other day. Because the bus was sitting at the traffic lights at that corner, I had a good chance to observe them, and it didn’t look like they were doing anything remotely related to trenches. Unless laying paving stones from the outside edge in, and then finding they don’t fit when you get to the line of existing paving stones, is a widely accepted way of covering up a former trench.
June 26, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I thought exactly the same thing as well, about ‘morepork frenching’. Once I realised my error I began to wonder what kind of typographical genius assigned that font to a trenching company. It’s like seeing Comic Sans on the side of a plane or something.
Comic Sans. Hah. When will you learn your proper place, Comic Sans?
June 29, 2009 at 8:50 am
In good ole Palmy we have a company called Total Truck Spray that use a serif font on their sign that almost merges the T and the r. I’m sure that was deliberate on their part.
June 29, 2009 at 12:52 pm
See, if it’s done intentionally, it’s funny! Apart from that, it’s bad kerning.