oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (06/10/85)
In article <1429@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP writes: >Which brings up an interesting puzzle: What other famous signs can be >amusingly corrupted by selective darkening of individual letters? >-- Somewhere on a highway between here and San Antonio is a "HELL" service station. (Should have been SHELL.) Needless to say, I didn't stop. -- - joel "vo" plutchak {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster "Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion."
dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) (06/12/85)
> Somewhere on a highway between here and San Antonio is a "HELL" service > station. > - joel "vo" plutchak In his memoirs ("Diplomat") Ambassador Thayer recalls that shortly after VE day in Finnland he was informed that he was about to be visited by a delegation from Hel. Thayer said it was nice of them to come all the way up. "Oh, no," he was told. "Hel is uphill from here." -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary