Way Too Easy

Radley Balko | 9.21.2010 4:32 PM

No, it isn't Photoshopped. Here's the story.

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Enough About Plain 14 years ago

Priceless.
Almanian 14 years ago

It's almost not even fun when it's this easy.

Almost.
1. Scrote 14 years ago
  
  The real fun comes from taking into consideration the possibility that this sign is not in error.
  
  I think we always kind of knew our schools were run by a bunch of pubes.
DG 14 years ago

Whoever is responsible for that sign could find themselves in a hairy situation.
1. Almanian 14 years ago
  
  As someone noted in the orig article, "they just missed getting it right by a....hair"
DADIODADDY 14 years ago

clearly a product of our PUBLIC schools.
1. Extended Warren T 14 years ago
  
  In South Bendover..
Mo 14 years ago

Interestingly, it was the private firm* the city hired to do it. Which shows that government contractors are just as bad as the government.

* Or they're taking the fall for a big customer
1. libertymike 14 years ago
  
  They are rent seekers; hence, ipso fatso, they are not free enterprisers.
  1. - 14 years ago
    
    "We're the ones who made the mistake, not the city or the school," Strickler emphasized.
    
    The mistake was in failing to have someone at the school or city sign off on a proof. Print fail 101.
    1. Aresen 14 years ago
      
      Or hiring a "pubic" school graduate to make the sign.
that_guy 14 years ago

after having lived in South Bend, this does not surprise me at all
Abdul 14 years ago

If you can read the sign at all, you should thank a pube.

I mean teacher.
Pube 14 years ago

I HAVE A RIGHT TO A QUALITY EDUCATION!
1. Extended Warren T 14 years ago
  
  And with a pubic school education you can qualify for a job at your local Wank-Mart.
VikingMoose 14 years ago

yup. since they're convinced that ND football has some sort of place (outside of the media-generated circus) in the national scene, it's not surprising that they'd do this.

let's send em lobster girl to combat those crabs in education!
1. Pro Libertate 14 years ago
  
  Isn't ND 0-2? Which means that they're just one win from being in the top 25?
  1. VikingMoose 14 years ago
    
    a win against a DIII opponent, or someone on ESPN saying they should be a BCS contender...
    1. libertymike 14 years ago
      
      Pro Lib-
      
      ND is 1-2. They beat Purdue in the first game of the season.
      1. Pro Libertate 14 years ago
        
        They wuz robbed!
      2. VM 14 years ago
        
        oh yeah. all over the chicago media.
        
        surprised they're not ranked top ten now.
        
        who at NBC is catholic, so they get the honey TV deal?
        
        Pro Libertate 14 years ago
        
        The team has sucked for how long? And they won't join a conference and help the country move towards the promised land of a 1-A playoff? Screw them.
        
        VM 14 years ago
        
        exactly!
        
        Pro Libertate 14 years ago
        
        I'm glad my ancestors broke away from Catholicism if it's responsible for inflicting Notre Dame on us. Also, the name is Latin for "Our Mother." Our Mother? What kind of football name is that?
        
        Saddam's Rotting Corpse 14 years ago
        
        It is The Mother of All Football names
        
        Pro Libertate 14 years ago
        
        Gee, they're terrorists, too?
        
        DADIODADDY 14 years ago
        
        short for our mother fucking football team...
Extended Warren T 14 years ago

Loose lips teach kids.
Irresponsible Hater 14 years ago

I'm not sure it would have been much better without the typo.

WTF does "15 best things about our public schools" mean?
1. cynical 14 years ago
  
  Unfamiliarity either with definite articles or superlatives. Possibly due to pubic school education.
2. ev 14 years ago
  
  I didn't notice the missing 'L' at first. I thought it was just the fact that it isn't a sentence. To me that's more embarrassing. I didn't notice the L until later either.
Almanian 14 years ago

Oh, BTW, Radley - THANK YOU for posting something besides a SWATzi dog-killing, innocent-shooting, rage-inducing eyegougefest!

My groinal region thanks you, too!
1. Extended Warren T 14 years ago
  
  Four dogs were killed in the making of that sign.
  
  Just thought you would like to know.
  1. Drax the Destroyer 14 years ago
    
    They also lit a black girl on fire then shot her because she wouldn't stop screaming. What? They had hangover headaches, and she was not helping their recovery.
JW 14 years ago

It would actually be an awesome Brazillian wax salon ad.
? 14 years ago

I don't see the problem.

Only the sickest of minds would turn that "15" upside down and see it as a minimalist symbol of coprophagia.

YOU PEOPLE
Ty Coliins 14 years ago

In 1996 I was the starting quarterback for the South Bend High Short-N-Curlies...
1. libertymike 14 years ago
  
  Did you play a home game on Friday night, September 27, 1996? I was in South Bend that weekend for Ohio State and ND and went to a high school game the night before.
  1. heller 14 years ago
    
    You like to watch the kiddies, eh libertymike?
2. DADIODADDY 14 years ago
  
  missed the playoffs by a cunt hair...
Lance Thrustwell 14 years ago

I am currently casting "Pubic School."
Am I the only one? 14 years ago

I had to read it three times before I noticed the missing letter. 🙁
1. Kristen 14 years ago
  
  No, I did too. But I'm a product of the pubic school system.
  1. wayne 14 years ago
    
    Me too.
    
    Of course, one could argue there is no missing letter, pubic is a word, and in my experience there are many (15, at least) great things about pubic regions.
    1. Drax the Destroyer 14 years ago
      
      Yeah I was having trouble thinking of 15 great things about public schools (I'm assuming "We babysit your brats 'for free' so you can watch daytime soaps in solitude all day" is one that wins over the housewives) but pubic schools are a completely different story.
      
      Slighty OT, but when one of our resident trolls pings on grammatical errors, mispellings, or my profundant use of swears, I cite my public schooling as a factor. And then I call him/her a fuck face.
2. mr simple 14 years ago
  
  At first I thought we were all laughing at how they were trying to pass of a sentence fragment as a sentence.
Fatty Bolger 14 years ago

Save are pubic schools.
Taktix? 14 years ago

Sadly, people won't look at this and think "there's something fundamentally wrong with our public schools."

If anything, people will think, "our public schools need more funding." Why? Because the pols programmed them to...
Dick Fitzwell 14 years ago

If you go to medical school to study medicine and you go to law school to study law......does that mean you go to pubic school to study pubes? Just asking.
Xenocles 14 years ago

Is this a sex ed issue?
Mr. FIFY 14 years ago

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q.....pg&t=1

Hah!
Tony 14 years ago

My least shining moment in my days as a book editor was when I allowed the phrase "pubic speaking" go to print. No joke.
Johnny Longtorso 14 years ago

Tony, your every comment is "pubic speaking".
Ron L 14 years ago

Unless there was a real rush (and billboard graphics hardly *ever* are rushed; trade show GFX are), the final layout goes to the client via PDF or similar for sign-off.
*No* graphics shop does otherwise and lasts for long.
So, who signed off?
Robert 14 years ago

Never mind that, what about that "SOUTHBENDONCOM"? That was the first thing I caught.
Aresen 14 years ago

Can't beat the classic (but probably apocryphal:

This Erection Paid For By Pubic Solicitation.
1. Robert 14 years ago
  
  A job solicitation I got today from a foreign outfit included:
  
  Qualified, fun and highly forced work environment
Public School Teacher 14 years ago

Save Are Schools!
Anomalous 14 years ago

Bush's fault!
Barely Suppressed Rage 14 years ago

Nice freakin' sign, ya moran!
????? ?????? 13 years ago

Thanks

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