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From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Corrupted Signs
Message-ID: <422@ptsfc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 18:28:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 18 18:28:42 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 01:21:11 EDT
Reply-To: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams)
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> Which brings up an interesting puzzle:  What other famous signs can be
> amusingly corrupted by selective darkening of individual letters?

  This doesn't answer the above question, but was the first
  thing that popped into my addled brain after reading it:

  In the hilarious, blasphemous, symbol-stuffed Dutch movie
  "The Fourth Man," a beautiful, but sinister, woman leads
  the eponymous protagonist to her apartment above her
  beauty salon. The sign out front can be read in daylight
  as "SPHINX," but at night all one can see is "SP IN " - the
  Dutch word for "spider" :-).
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