The Eugene Quits effect

[GwydionM]

Paul was working on the song She Came in through the Bathroom Window at the time, but still needed a final verse. He looked at the police identification panel mounted on the dashboard of the cab. There was a mug shot of the driver and his name, stencilled in large black letters: ‘Eugene Quits’; beneath that was written ‘New York Police Dept.’ Paul: ‘So I got “So I quit the police department”, which are part of the randomness of it all. If I hadn’t been in this guy’s cab, or if it had been someone else driving, the song would have been different”
(Many Years From Now, by Barry Miles.)

This sort of accidental meaning happens quite a lot. The British magazine Private Eye recently showed a sign saying

ANTIQUE
SHEEP
SHOW-JUMPING
LORRIES

Any more cases that people know of?

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A view from the UK

 

[ESquared]

At drugstores or grocery stores, if I'm bored, I enjoy combining various words from the signs that show what's down each aisle, looking for something amusing.

Dental Incontinence
Pet Hair Dyes

I won't ruin it for you by giving more!

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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)