This sign, on the roof over a shop a few miles from where I live, caught my eye because I couldn't figure out what "Exotic Paint and Layout" meant, then I realized it was particularly humorous because, presumably, anyone advertising his ability to do good layout -- exotic layout, even -- should be able to come up with a better sign than this. This sign is also funny because it brags on exoticism, yet it's singularly dull (except for the lower-case "y" in "LAyOUT," which I suspect results more from ignorance of what an upper-case "Y" looks like than from any exotically creative typographical choice). But if it has something to do with layout, I find it amusing that it's laid out so poorly, what with the words "paint" and "and" being too close together and the word "layout" being separated into two words. I suspect this sign was painted in a left half and a right half and then put together wrong. I still have no idea what this sign means or what services or merchandise it advertises, which is the funniest thing of all. This is, for me, a classic Fun Pix sign. |