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NYC DOT strikes out by misspelling ‘Jakie’ Robinson Parkway sign
NY Post ^ | 02/26/2023 | Carl Campanile, Haley Brown and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 02/27/2023 3:17:07 AM PST by DFG

The city Department of Transportation struck out on this one.

Big Apple DOT officials botched a Queens road sign for the Jackie Robinson Parkway, misspelling the color-barrier-busting baseball Hall of Famer’s name.

The sign at Myrtle Avenue and Forest Park Drive features a likeness of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ great — atop the words “Jakie Robinson Parkway.”

“It’s embarrassing,” Glendale native Kira Incantalupo told The Post on Sunday. “Poor Jackie Robinson.

“That shouldn’t have happened,” said Incantalupo, 37. “I mean, nobody wants to have that. It’s a memorial for somebody. It should be corrected.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: US: New York
KEYWORDS: fail; jakie; nycdot; roadsign; robinson
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To: maddog55

After I posted that, I wondered if you were being funny. I am going with it being funny. Lol.


21 posted on 02/27/2023 4:41:07 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: RoosterRedux
If math and science are racist, can spelling be far behind?;-)

School employee fired for tweet aimed at student’s spelling

https://apnews.com/article/53cb7dddd90b47f08245c8a75aa3cc38

Profs declare correct grammar is racist, no such thing as standard English at symposium

https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17695

22 posted on 02/27/2023 4:42:09 AM PST by grundle
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To: DFG

Thank a (union) teacher.


23 posted on 02/27/2023 4:48:01 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: RoosterRedux
The New York Times wrote:

“The Board of Regents on Monday eliminated a requirement that aspiring teachers in New York State pass a literacy test to become certified after the test proved controversial because black and Hispanic candidates passed it at significantly lower rates than white candidates.”

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20181112191532/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/ny-regents-teacher-exams-alst.html?_r=0"

24 posted on 02/27/2023 4:48:15 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Well, on a positive note, if the new 85,000 IRS agents being hired can’t spell or do math, we don’t have much to worry about.


25 posted on 02/27/2023 4:51:17 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: DFG

TODAY’S students cannot spell STOP


26 posted on 02/27/2023 4:54:02 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: RoosterRedux

The article didn’t say how many misspelled Jackie Robinson signs were in place, or what the cost to replace them all would be. And there will be lawsuits by the offended victims.


27 posted on 02/27/2023 5:22:29 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: DFG

She’s right, of course. But hopefully, there’s never a “Kira Incantalupo” freeway. Imagine the misspelling possibilities with that name...


28 posted on 02/27/2023 5:25:22 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: SaveFerris

I think he played for every major league team. 42 is retired MLB-wide.

Did they ever fix Elvis Aron Presley’s tombstone? (They spelled it Aaron rather than Aron).


29 posted on 02/27/2023 5:29:24 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

“42 is retired MLB-wide”

Yup—pathetic.

In the old days every roadside inn claimed that “George Washington slept here”—modern variation on the scam.


30 posted on 02/27/2023 5:36:17 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: DFG

The sign was designed by a diversity hire, no doubt.


31 posted on 02/27/2023 5:38:43 AM PST by TheElectionWasStolen
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To: DFG

I hold the guy who hung the sign more responsible than the guy who made it.


32 posted on 02/27/2023 5:40:13 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,895,899 Truth | 87,656,930 Twitter)
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To: ridesthemiles

I saw some parking spots with the label “service vehilces only. Spelled out the same way on 6 parking spots.


33 posted on 02/27/2023 5:42:55 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: DFG

Jakay!


34 posted on 02/27/2023 5:51:26 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: DFG

“Great googly moogly!”


35 posted on 02/27/2023 6:04:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DFG

Bttt


36 posted on 02/27/2023 6:06:21 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: SamAdams76

The guy who hung the sign probably knew that a member of America’s Royal Race made the sign—and knew that offending the Royal Family meant they would be fired.


37 posted on 02/27/2023 6:08:16 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

Good point.


38 posted on 02/27/2023 6:20:40 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,895,899 Truth | 87,656,930 Twitter)
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To: DFG

‘Jakie’ was probably is true name, and spelling it ‘Jackie’ was forced on him by his oppressors.


39 posted on 02/27/2023 7:02:21 AM PST by whatexit (Biden is an unmanned drone. )
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To: whatexit

Jakie is Scottish slang from a homeless alcoholic.


40 posted on 02/27/2023 7:02:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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