Did you ever read a sign or other such lettered media and realize without a doubt that what you read isn’t actually what the sign said? I give you the following example: this morning I found myself at a stoplight behind a Keebler truck. I glanced at the pictures of giant cookies and the big tree where Ernie and the other elves conjure up yummy cookie goodness. I read the slogan in huge letters across the truck’s rear door: A Little Elfin Magic Goes a Long Way. Except I read…
…you’re there, aren’t you?
…can you see it?
…are you laughing as hard as I was?
…thats’ right: A Little Effin’ Magic Goes a Long Way.
Indeed.











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August 30, 2007 at 7:49 am
Calliope
oh I want a truck of effing magic in my town!
ok, really what I want now is a cookie. a fudge stripe please.
xo
August 30, 2007 at 9:33 am
holly
That is funny! An effin’ truck of magic!
September 1, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Mo
This is hilarious! Oh, the things we do to entertain ourselves in traffic. My mind changes words like that all the time.
September 6, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Mike
While in Boone during graduate school, I saw a white tanker truck with the name “Freeman Gas” and the bright blue flame logo for natural gas on its side. With the placement of the flame — its tip between the second “e” and the “m” — my mind read it “Free Man Gas.” I actually thought, “Ew…who would want that?”