Posted on 09/21/2010 9:36:46 AM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
SOUTH BEND — If you ever wondered how much difference just one letter can make when it comes to a message, ask the thousands of people who drove by a digital billboard near the intersection of Ironwood and State Road 23 between Thursday and Monday morning.
The ad urged people to go to the "southbendon.com" website for a look at the "15 best things about our pubic schools." That's right, the billboard said "pubic" instead of "public" schools. The letter "L" had been left out of the word public.
Lee MacMillan of South Bend said his wife spotted the error on Saturday while sitting in traffic.
"She got home and said, ‘I can't believe it said what I think it said,’" MacMillan recalls.
"So we were out driving around yesterday and sure enough, it had that typo in it. So we took a picture and the rest is history, as they say," MacMillan adds.
MacMillan posted the picture he took on Facebook. He also emailed it to his neighbor, South Bend School Superintendent Jim Kapsa.
Responsibility for the spelling error has been claimed by the Blue Waters Group. The company does work for the city of South Bend's redevelopment commission to promote the city.
"I feel terrible. It's a mistake we made and we're guilty of it, and responsible for it. and we take full responsibility for the error," said Patrick Strickler, president of the Blue Waters Group.
"Four people looked at it, eyeballed it and didn't see the mistake, and those people all work for me,” Strickler explained. “We take responsibility for it. We simply blew it. We did not see the missing "L."
He says he became aware of the problem Monday morning.
"We jumped on it and immediately had it taken down by Burkhart. They took it out of rotation and began to repair it," Strickler said.
"We're the ones who made the mistake, not the city or the school," Strickler emphasized.
As of late afternoon on Monday, a representative from the Blue Waters Group indicated the content of the billboard had been fixed and the digital message was up and running again.
Thrown away?
Donate them to 3rd world charities, they wont notice the spelling. . .
“Re-lutors” That is how a lot of people pronounce it....one of my pet peeves.
it’s a Christmas mesaage! No L!
That would describe Lohan, Britney Spears, and a whole bunch of others................
The sign makers must have gone to pubic schools and never learnt how to axe questions or spell rite.
And “FebUary”........it's mispronounced so often during the entire month of February that I can't listen to radio or TV much....drives me crazy.
I still enjoy my Grundig Yaghtboy shortwave(same one Tom Hank's had in that movie he had "brainfog" in Joe Vs. The Volcano).
tard ping
An ironic, but fitting testament of the quality of our pubic schools.
Don’t you mean “Pubic School Ping” :P
no doubt a sly Notre Dame entrance exam (if you didn’t catch it on your ride into town, your application is rejected)
Funny picture, but what I liked was the guy admitted that he and his 4 employees all completely blew it, it was his fault and no one else and he was ashamed and correcting it.
Seems these days the first thing anyone does is try and come up with a face saving excuse or point to someone else.
BWAHAHAHA!!!
Who’d want to send their kids to public schools is beyond me.
I suppose the billboard isn’t so far from the truth anyway.
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Your spot on!
While proofreading a Jewish prayerbook, I came across this:
“Torah Reading for a Pubic Fast Day.”
What we fast from, I don’t know.
That sign is about a mile from my Company ................. FRegards
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