Textual Bloopers make for great Entertainment!

Well, that was funny, wonder what they were thinking when they wrote all that!

It is funny how everyone wants to advertise their businesses in English and what matters for them is to see letters in English painted on their banners, vehicles advertising services, and even labels attached to products being sold in supermarkets. However, a single spelling error or a semantical error is bound to draw attention, although for the wrong reason!  Of course, the viewing of such an error is bound to fill your day with laughter!

Take for examples what is written on the side panel of this truck, taken literally, what it says is that the owner provides customers service related to transportation of freight (in this case misspelt). 

I wonder if anyone would want to hire this fellow's services, not, at least with the word, 'Fright' stencilled on his side panel.

Another of my favourite textual bloopers is in a photograph I took many years ago while returning from the airport. What was written on the back of a truck almost made me split with laughter! It left me wondering why a trucker would want to write such stuff on his truck. In fact, most trucks in India have been turned into mobile information centres, moving billboards and canvasses for varied artwork. In the midst of all that artwork, a discerning person will spot a gem of a blooper and spend the rest of his day either laughing to himself or making others laugh.

While the message is sobering, especially for those who floor the accelerator, the way it is written makes you wonder about the state of mind of the person who painted it. Perhaps it was the fumes from the paint can that made him substitute the word, 'better' for 'water' or it was that he was thirsty and so the feeling transferred itself from the subconscious to the hand painting the said message (I am not even talking about replacing the word 'than' with 'then' as that would mean doing a lesson in grammar!).

But then,  it is not just trucks that have some interesting bloopers on them, in fact, even some of the labels on products being sold in supermarkets have some of the most interesting stuff on them. Take for example this new breed of A GREAD prawns, they must be special, without a doubt!

Now if you have a notice with the word 'trail' on top of the women's trial room then I wonder if you will really have many guests trying the clothes. The word 'trail' suggests something different from what it was supposed to have meant. The fact that this word remained on for quite some time is an indication that the manager was not alert enough!