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*Others Well Be Toed
Better?
... it literally took me reading it three times to realize...
Ropes!?
You kind of have to wonder
"What, in God's name, are those employees doing in private?"
It's worse if Door Fucker works there.
Went? Even the show itself never tried to pretend she was sane.
<involuntary eye twitch>
"There is no P on our roperty. Feel free to add yours."
I guess if somebody wanted to take revenge on Twilight, rather than going full "I will rip the world in half!!!" villain, he would just need to start to modify signs around Ponyville, then Canterlot, then the rest of Equestria to drive Twilight into a raving spelling madness fulled quest to find the felon and correct those signs
Yakkety Sax
Spike runs by with the Official Smiting Paperwork, pursued by screeching purple
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I didn't fare much better.
While I got it the first time, I scrolled up and down the page about five times looking for the first chapter of the story.
I thought we were in for some classic Twilight neurosis.
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Or possibly tilt every painting in the castle or mis-shelve random books throughout the library.
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No, see, one of the employees is a roper.
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His name is Ty, and he doesn't like to talk about his personal life at work. He's also very particular about who uses the company lot and will personally tow any vehicle that shouldn't be there out of it. And he does so very well.
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Surely for a powerful mage, "Others will be Toad"?
It's just missing two commas:
Others, well, be towed
(It's also missing the "Please do the honorable thing and call the towtruck yourself, we don't have the budget to contract one", but that one's best left implicit
)
PD: Or it's just wishing you happy trails onboard the towtruck
At the bottom it says others "well" be towed.
...And the owner/operator of The Niece und & Acccureat Sign Cropratity wondered why business was so slow.
(And very few cars well towed.)
If you took the P of of Private as well it would sound like Scooby Doo.
The more I read it, the worse it gets.
You had one job
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Either way, somebody's gonna croak.
"I left my wagon right there!" fumed Trixie. "It wasn't bothering anypony, I had the brakes on, and I only went into the cafe for a few minutes! It was that menace, Twilight! I know it!"
"Now calm down there, sugarcube." Applejack patted the Great And Tantruming Trixie on a shoulder. "You can't say that for certain. Heck, maybe somepony just moved it."
"It wasn't moved! Twilight's responsible!" Trixie jabbed a hoof at the nearby crystal castle. "Go yell at her for me."
"Me?" Applejack held a hoof across her chest. "Now don't get me wrong, but Ah ain't gonna go yell at my friend just on account of you can't find your gosh durned wagon after spending three hours in the cafe, eatin' on mah bits. Just a'cause Ah was pickin' up the check, ain't no reason to stuff yourself like a chipmunk afore winter, and it ain't no reason to accuse mah friend of stealin' your durned wagon!"
"She didn't steal it!" huffed Trixie, pointing down in the grass where an amphibian quietly gazed back at the two of them. "It was toad."
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Write it.
I dare you.
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So just to explain...
* This exists.
* I did not alter the sign in any way.
* The specimen can be found at one of the car washes I mentioned yesterday: the one with the oil change center attached. It's been there for a while. I just happened to be up early enough today to get into their parking lot before they opened, which saved me the trouble of dealing with "WHY YOU POINTING THING AT SIGN?"
* I know there's a forward lean in the image. It was breezy this morning and the sign is mounted on springs.
* Yes, I recognize that there is now a very small chance that someone will be able to identify my approximate living area. All you have to do is visit every car wash in the States and once you spot this thing...
* Of course it could take a while. That's your problem.
I look forward to being accused of cruelty towards sign-makers.
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Genius. Let's add that to the list.
He could also subscribe Twilight to obnoxious publications that her researcher soul won't be able to ignore pointing the mistakes.
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Since this is Equestria and Luna is in charge of immigration and integration into pony society, I could see this happen.
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I may have an idea. It involves the Prop Guild of Applewood, which is now apparently a thing. (Hey, if we already have ropers, might as well throw in mimics as well.)
Well, there's no excuse for the bottom line, but from the word positioning it looks like "roperty" was originally spelled correctly and center-justified. After that, it is simply someone taking the P.
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You monster. Their just trying they're best.
reminds me of an anecdote in an old school textbook:
a sign said:
private no swimming allowed
but a prankster cleverly added punctuation to make it say:
private? no! swimming allowed.
an amusing example of how important proper punctuation can be.
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Never, ever give up Winston Church Hill.
Someone may have moved the P from Property to in front of arking. One must be careful when looking for a suitable arking lot. Noah spent ages trying to find one. Rumor has it that he finally found one on a mountain somewhere.
I made this sign and I demand you get off my roperty
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Or what? I'll suffer the enalty of low?
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What an intriguing title. I'd bet you could do amazing things with either Luna or Rarity using "the enalty of low".
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Stop laughing at me, yes, the penalty of plow.
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Take your upvote and get out
Twilght is struck by a terrible curse. In every single sentence she reads she hallucnates a mispelling or grammatical error! Its terrible! And she knows it’s all in her head but it’s thriving her completely mental!
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“If you really hate someone, teach them to recognize poor kerning.”
-xkcd
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That gets funnier every time I look at it.
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I don't know why she's so certain it was Twilight. The toad wasn't part orange, was it? By dint of a perfect transfiguration, I'd think Starlight was a more likely suspect. A tad jealous of AJ rustling in on her Trixie time, perhaps?
I winced a little. Bad spelling is one of the things that annoys me the most (I'm good at self-proofreading due to this), which can make it tricky finding fanfics on this site to read that don't have my finger getting twitchy towards the downvote arrow.
(But two misspellings on the same sign? Come on now! All my faith in humanity has been lost to the billows of the sea of cynicism.)
Yeah, don't dig for water around there, or they'll tow your well away.
Hole included.
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I wonder, in-verse, if Mayor Mare has yet had to dedicate an entire filing cabinet to Twilight Sparkle attempting to report misspelled signage as a crime.
...and how many filing cabinets are filled with complaints from the owners of the misspelled signage about a slender purple nuisance demanding that she be allowed to fix said signage.
It looks like someone...
*puts on sunglasses*
took a P on this sign.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Super-old meme engaged.
Pun hell is getting awfully crowded these days.
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Come to Japan, Twi, and despair.
Hello Engrish, my old friend.