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shcmucks
Posted by: ligirl | January 24, 2012 at 12:54 PM
You can't spell shcool without cool.
Posted by: Mazar Larry | January 24, 2012 at 12:56 PM
Shcools out for summer...
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | January 24, 2012 at 12:58 PM
what is a x-ng shcool?
"We don't need no educasion" --the Pink Floyd song "Another Brick in the Wall"
Posted by: funny man | January 24, 2012 at 01:02 PM
WFT?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 24, 2012 at 01:03 PM
'if i can Make it their...'
Posted by: ligirl | January 24, 2012 at 01:04 PM
I figured it out!! It's "shcool, baby!"
Imagine someone from Brooklyn saying this:
"Like, wow that breeze is sure shcool!"
or'
"That clown-red nose sure makes you look shcool!"
Posted by: funny man | January 24, 2012 at 01:06 PM
But one city worker, who didn’t want to be identified, put the blame on nearby school officials.
“Regardless of who painted it, someone from the school should have been outside supervising, or noticed it by now,” the city worker said.
Admittedly I am not a certified painter or maintenance worker (ahem), but I would think that they would have a work order that says something along the lines of,
"Paint street with #1 Reflective White in block letters 4 feet tall with this word: SCHOOL"
.. right? I agree that a non-dyslexic supervisor should have signed off on the job once it was completed, but to say that a "school official" needed to stand out there while the City's maintenance worker was applying the paint .. no way.
Posted by: MOTW | January 24, 2012 at 01:20 PM
X-NG is the same as F**KING -- the streets in NYC won't let you post actual obscenities. (I've tried.)
Posted by: Omniskeptic | January 24, 2012 at 01:21 PM
...& when dave's play opens we're gonna Paint the Town Read!
Posted by: ligirl | January 24, 2012 at 01:29 PM
Dave wrote a play?
Posted by: wiredog | January 24, 2012 at 01:40 PM
Google "shcool" and click on images. Apparently this has happened in multiple cities.
Posted by: Corey Smith | January 24, 2012 at 01:54 PM
ligirl, that is actually an idea that should become a reality.
What say you , bloglits?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 24, 2012 at 01:56 PM
That'd be shcool, MBt ...
& I think the person travelin' from most remotest region (not necessarily "furtherest away" -- thinkin' Nodak is perty remote, hint, hint) shcould be awarded free ayr-fair & get comped on rumor/bored ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 24, 2012 at 02:12 PM
Can I please borrow someone's OUthe-to-English dictionary?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 24, 2012 at 02:17 PM
English? Whut English?
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 24, 2012 at 02:26 PM
Merely havin' fun with dylexicalness, Meanie ... and, yeah, I know there's an entire horde of folks who are eagerly anticipatin' the day when I go back to werk ...
Mebbe as soon as April ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 24, 2012 at 02:28 PM
I can misravel the dyslexitude and the colloquialinocity, O, but I've learned the hard way that when the subject boils down to matters of remunerativeliness, I want the factually unobfuscated matter and nothing but the factually unobfuscated matter.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 24, 2012 at 02:42 PM
Can I borrow some one's Meanie the Blue to English dictionary?
Posted by: nursecindy | January 24, 2012 at 02:53 PM
I can disenfranchise Meanie's loquacial versimilitude for you, cindy, I just have to dislocate my thesaural annalicity.
Posted by: padraig | January 24, 2012 at 03:17 PM
OK, now y'all are bein' RIDICULOUS!
I like that in a blog ...
(Y'all have learnt well, Grasshoppers ...)
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 24, 2012 at 03:41 PM
That's funny. Sh + cool. I really think their brain was stuck on something cool and it just came out that way.
Posted by: Theresa | January 24, 2012 at 04:28 PM
I smell a rat.
Well, I smell more than that but Stewie is sitting next to me.
Did anyone notice the the paint job seems less than perfect? Like someone wasn't even using a stencil?
Maybe this was a totally amateur job?
Posted by: Steve | January 24, 2012 at 04:53 PM
Amateur? Steve, Steve, Steve ... y'all're speakin' of New York's Finest ... um ... City Employees ... um ... like ... street cleaners ... garbage persons ... um ...
Nevermind ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 24, 2012 at 04:55 PM
Padraig, you may want to take some Tylenol and lay down after you do that.
Posted by: nursecindy | January 24, 2012 at 05:08 PM
MOTW & others: I saw this on the local news tonight. It was not city workers, maintenance or others, who did this, but a privately contracted group paid for by Con Ed who f&*ked it up.
Whether the school administrators, teachers & student should have noticed...the short answer is, they did, but since this is New York they probably just shrugged and laughed and moved on to the next thing, like opossums on the subway.
Anyway, after a year and a half or so, getting the story on the news finally got it repainted correctly.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 24, 2012 at 08:42 PM
This is waht i epxect form a uonin gevormnet wroker.
Posted by: caveman | January 24, 2012 at 11:58 PM
The infamous NYC Blackout ... workers who can't spell ...
Con Ed is, at the very least, consistent in their unreliability ... merely sayin' ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 25, 2012 at 10:18 AM
...picturing opossums laughing and shrugging their shoulders on the subway...
Posted by: Gary | January 25, 2012 at 10:40 AM
It was a beautiful summer day, and Flopsy and Tippin set off to pick strawbwrries, happy as opossums on a subway.
Posted by: omniskeptic | January 25, 2012 at 11:42 AM
During my senior year at a public high school, someone creatively vandalized the sign of the catholic high school in my hometown. So
SAINT FRANCIS
HIGH SCHOOL
became
_AINT FRANCIS
HIGH _C_OOL
The new sign says St. Francis High School.
Posted by: oneblankspace | January 25, 2012 at 12:38 PM
I'm X-ing
Sh....(it's) cool.
Posted by: PhilB | January 25, 2012 at 01:12 PM