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New Tue 29 Jun 10 19:15 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - VxFan
Particularly during English lessons.

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New Tue 29 Jun 10 19:22 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - Chris S
If he could spell he wouldn't be painting roads for a living.

At least he's working and not scrounging of the DSS.
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New Tue 29 Jun 10 19:28 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - Avant
How do you know it's a he? SOTP = Spinster Of This Parish.
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New Tue 29 Jun 10 19:47 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - mikeyb
Happened here to.

www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Road-markings-spell-importance-education/article-2318093-detail/article.html

People who know Bristol will know what a lovely area this is......
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New Wed 30 Jun 10 07:18 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - L'escargot
"However, earlier this year, councils across England admitted paying hundreds of pounds to correct street signs with spelling and punctuation mistakes .............."

I thought that spelling and punctuation mistakes weren't seen as being important nowadays. What percentage of people could write a correctly spelt and punctuated letter complaining about street sign errors?
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New Wed 30 Jun 10 07:23 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - smokie
" What percentage of people could write a correctly spelt and punctuated letter complaining about street sign errors"

No idea. can't do percentages :-)
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New Wed 30 Jun 10 08:53 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - henry k
They are lucky they only have paint to change.

South African road names.
knowledgeoflondon.com/images/store%20street%20name.jpg
need to be correct or ......

An interesting road marking.
www.keithlane.com/userimages/Mauritius-7-26310046a.JPG
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New Wed 30 Jun 10 09:34 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - J Bonington Jagworth
This may be apocryphal, but I liked the tale of the English council on the Welsh border that was asked to make one of its signs bi-lingual. No-one in the highways dept spoke Welsh, so they emailed a colleague across the border for a translation and acted on the reply.

Only when the sign had been up for a while did they learn that the Welsh bit read “I am out of the office at present”...
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New Wed 30 Jun 10 10:23 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - Focusless
>> This may be apocryphal

Apparently not: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm
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New Wed 30 Jun 10 10:24 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - VxFan
>> Only when the sign had been up for a while did they learn that the
>> Welsh bit read “I am out of the office at present”...

This one I believe

www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/dW_i18n/resource/welsh_gaffe.jpg

edit - beaten to it.
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New Wed 30 Jun 10 11:16 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - Mike Hannon
I thought road sign painting was one of the jobs that used to be contracted to HM Prisons, like mailbag sewing.
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New Wed 30 Jun 10 11:31 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - J Bonington Jagworth
I'd assumed it was an English council, too! Not much excuse for Swansea...
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New Wed 30 Jun 10 12:21 
 Bungling workman didn't pay attention at skhool - Ted

Love it.......adds a frisson of interest and madness to mundane activities.

I sometimes used to put ' FOR SLAE ' on a car for sale.......brought a few people in to tell me !

Ted
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