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One Letter Off by Morte

October 8th, 2008 3:58 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Find a sign, poster, advertisement or other publicly-displayed message that would be improved by (physically) changing a single letter. Make the necessary change.

When this task went up I spent several days looking at signage and mentally changing letters to see if I could come up with something that both made sense and was amusing. I came up with a good one for a Dental Office, but I couldn't find a reachable sign to change.

I was on my way to PT one afternoon when I stopped to have a cigarette in the designated smoking area (which is also where the bike racks are) when it hit me, I could change the smoking signs!

I have been a smoker for too long now, but even when I didn't smoke the strident No Smoking signs always annoyed me. Both before and after I started smoking upon observing these signs I would always be seized with a desire to light one up and stand right by the sign whilst blowing smoke at it. Even non-smoker friends of mine have expressed similar sentiments. So what better sign to mess with?

I stopped after one PT appointment long enough to take tracings of the letters so as to get proper font and size. Then I went back and played around with Word until closeness was achieved. I then took my supplies and went to PT. Afterward, I snuck into the area under the cover of broad daylight to change the signs.

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But what to change it to? I was reading an old praxis for Player Kill Zones when it struck me, I should change the signs to designate player kill areas, or even just areas of allowed wrath. According to Websters Dictionary, smoting is defines thusly:

smote (smt)
v.
Past tense and a past participle of smite.

smite
Verb
[smiting, smote; smitten] or smit Archaic biblical
1. to strike with a heavy blow
2. to affect severely: hunger smites him again
3. to burden with an affliction in order to punish: God smote the enemies of the righteous
4. smite on to strike abruptly and with force: the sun smote down on him [Old English smītan]

Ok, so I played a little fast and loose with past participles, but I have seen 'smoting' used in the Bible and other Middle English texts. If it was good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for me.

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As it is always important to be in the proper area for striking down thine enemies with righteous indignation, the arrows are helpful.

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Ah, getting closer to being able to be wrathful.

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And here we are. LET THE KILLING BEGIN!!!!!

Edited note: As of today (10/16/08) all of the signs were unchanged from when I changed them. I guess no one has noticed. Although, there was an elderly couple (mid-late70's) leaning up against one of them making out like they were teenagers. I didn't have the heart to ask them to move.

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Spotlighted Wrath

Spotlighted Wrath

Lighting provided by Nature. I guess the gods approve.


The Props

The Props

Unfortunately my computer refused to give me the proper shade of green.


Original

Original

Here and only here can you smoke. This had to go!


Wrath Location

Wrath Location

Ah, so it's to the south that wrath is allowed. But not right here.


Wrath Thattaway

Wrath Thattaway

At least they set aside an area for righteous wrathfulness.


Wrath Here!

Wrath Here!

Official Player Kill Area maybe?



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posted by Jellybean of Thark on October 8th, 2008 5:56 PM

Oh my...

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posted by Morte on October 8th, 2008 7:41 PM

what? *looks innocent and walks away whistling*

I am smitten. +3
posted by Waldo Cheerio on October 8th, 2008 8:03 PM

Did you put up those posters too? This makes me rue the day the english language becomes smited.

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posted by Morte on October 9th, 2008 7:15 AM

What an interesting article! Thank you for linking it, now I need to send it to a bunch of my English loving friends! I had nothing to do with the posters, but they have enough errors that I always have to suppress the urge to bring a red pen with me to correct it.

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posted by Loki on October 9th, 2008 1:52 AM

Nice.

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posted by Pip Estrelle on October 20th, 2008 9:37 PM


Technically I think the word is "smiting" but that does not change the fact that this is awesome.

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posted by teucer on October 20th, 2008 9:41 PM

Had she written "smiting" she'd have had to change two letters. As is, it's awesome *and* a completion.


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posted by Morte on October 21st, 2008 6:59 AM

See, and I think that's my problem with a lot of the completions for this one. Almost everyone changed more than one letter, or added a letter instead of changing it. I was trying really hard to follow the basics of the task, if not the laws of grammar.

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posted by Eidhnean entwines on May 22nd, 2009 10:25 PM

Pluperfect grammar be damned, as a person with a respiratory system, I approve.
As a person with a healthy sense of "sometimes, someone just needs smiting", I also approve.

Unfortunately, I cannot vote twice.