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Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
3. Years ago, a friend and I were traveling between Flagstaff and Albuquerque.
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 04:10 PM
Mar 2016

It was pretty late at night and a lot of that country is very open, so you can see blinking signs from a long way off. We noticed a bright (but not very long) red one. Coudsl't tell what it said at first..and were both amused and a bit weirded out that when we got close enough, it turned out to be a "DIESEL" sign for a truck stop, and the second half of the sign was burned out.

So we had big ol' red letters going "DIE...DIE...DIE"

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
4. Supposedly Bobby Darin took the name "Darin" from a burned-out Chinese restaurant sign
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 04:14 PM
Mar 2016

that originally said "Mandarin".

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
5. Some years ago, LynneSin and others stayed at the Milford Plaza Hotel in NYC
Fri Mar 11, 2016, 04:15 PM
Mar 2016

for an NYC meetup.

You have already guessed the rest: The "ord" was burned out.

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