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Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 03-21-2016, 07:43 PM:
 
This article/survey made me laugh:



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We were at the Cobb Downtown at the Gardens movie theater this weekend when we noticed that a burned-out letter in the neon “Box Office” sign turned it into “Box of Ice.” Ha! But it got us thinking about how movie theaters seem to really be boxes of ice to some patrons and just fine to others.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-21-2016, 10:06 PM:
 
There was an infamous photo doing the rounds of the net a few years back (it may have appeared here) of a theater marquee on a main street 3-plex, which read:

ERIN BROCKOVICH
SCREWED
MY DOG SKIP
 

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Posted by Alan Plester (Member # 852) on 03-22-2016, 07:22 AM:
 
I remember some students played with the letters on a cinema in Oxford when Star Wars first came out..........Arse Warts
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 03-22-2016, 11:57 AM:
 
A long time ago there was a guy named Martinson who had an apartment building in between my day job and a local restaurant. He was creating a new sign on the front of the building out of wooden letters. The painter had painted the letters and was letting them dry on a table before installing them. My friends and I walked by on the way to coffee break and we saw nobody around, so we rearranged the letters on the table to say "EAT ME MARTINSON." Then we went in for coffee.

When we came out, Mr. Martinson was out there yelling at the contractor about "some asshole" coming by and rearranging the letters. We just said hi and kept walking by.

That's the kind of prank I like -- harmless, no damage to anything, but still funny.

Probably our funniest marquee mistake was when we played the movie FRESH HORSES and our marquee kid left out the middle S in HORSES. I didn't catch it till the next day.
 

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 03-22-2016, 03:34 PM:
 

quote: Alan Plester

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I remember some students played with the letters on a cinema in Oxford when Star Wars first came out..........Arse Warts

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