As I have mentioned several times … I’m a ‘words’ person not a ‘numbers’ person.
So whenever I am out and about I can’t help but notice the them … signs, numberplates & adverts ….words are everywhere, and where they’re not there I make them up (sounding a bit like a Rainman now eh?) .
But I often wonder how many other people read what they THINK they see rather than what’s really there….you know like seeing ‘shopfitters’ …. but reading ‘shoplifters’ ???.. go on admit it, you know you do…(I hope).
These days though, there is the added challenge of working out cryptic business names…. you know the ones that someone (often when they were drunk) thought were really ‘funny’ or clever names and they turn out to be completely obscure or lame in the light of day.
My favourites are the ones that run the words together into one long nonsensical word. Not like a portmanteaus which can be clever (think ‘labradoodle’ or ‘californication’) ….but more like a wordsaladorjumblewordstryingtopull them apart at the right spot to see what is actually there.
Today I followed billthewindowman.. and had myself convinced that it was something to do with a blind woman… mmm I wonder how much business you get if people can’t figure what your name is?
Wonder Years 
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