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* Novelis, an industrial aluminium manufacturer, was once prone to deliberately extinguishing some letters on its signage during the holiday season, leaving the name as "No_el". |
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* For most of the 1990s, a self-storage business on Route 1 in North Brunswick, NJ had a sign on the side of the building facing the highway made of large plastic letters which originally read "PUBLIC SELF-STORAGE", but which had lost enough characters to read "PUBIC ELF RAGE". |
* For most of the 1990s, a self-storage business on Route 1 in North Brunswick, NJ had a sign on the side of the building facing the highway made of large plastic letters which originally read "PUBLIC SELF-STORAGE", but which had lost enough characters to read "PUBIC ELF RAGE". |
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* The [[National Lampoon]] print magazine used to run a "true facts issue" which encouraged readers to send photos, like the "_IFFY RESTAURANT" sign on a Jiffy Grill, which were inadvertently humorous. |
* The [[National Lampoon]] print magazine used to run a "true facts issue" which encouraged readers to send photos, like the "_IFFY RESTAURANT" sign on a Jiffy Grill, which were inadvertently humorous. |