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Comment by drakeandrews | Hacker News Reader

There was a sign in front of a lake saying:

    PRIVATE PROPERTY
    NO SWIMMING ALLOWED

But by adding a few punctuation marks:

    PRIVATE PROPERTY?
    NO, SWIMMING ALLOWED.

The meaning of the sign was reversed.

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I get a chuckle out of the

    SLOW
  CHILDREN

signs. Should you read that as:

  Slow Children

  Slow, Children?

When you see a

  DEAF
  CHILD

sign nearby, the inappropriate interpretation is reinforced.

We learned something pretty useful at the bird sanctuary: "Quiet birds have ears".

Or that episode of the Simpons where Marge saw "SUGAR FREE DONUTS" until Apu added a comma between "sugar" and "free", and explained that it was actually sugar with free donuts.

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