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Shosple Colupis! The best accidentally hilarious poorly designed signs

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One of the first inklings I had that my mind doesn’t quite work right, or at least like everyone else’s, was when I believed from the time I was 10 years old that “Popeye’s” was pronounced “POPE-YES.” I went on uncorrected for more than a decade because I never said it out loud, I just thought in my brain, “why is this chicken place named after the Pope?”

Anyway, that accidental juxtaposition is the basis of some of the funniest comedy I have ever seen.

Here are some more pope-yes memes from a thread I found a few years back.

She be so she liev she could ed did!! Very inspiring.

You had meat “hello”!

CAR SPA PAN BGN ON A HET ETO RA TI NE! Sounds Latin.

This one is so nuts I can’t even come up with a reading at all:

Ok let’s keep going:

70,000 can’t be teeth, wrong!! I can’t help but agree.

I don’t know why these make me laugh so much, they just do. Ok, take a deep breath, here we go….

Amazing. Also…

Another one I can’t even try to decipher:

This is simply amazing:

Shosple Colupis!!!

I wonder how long they tried to come up with this one:

“T” for effort I guess.

We’re You’re Not Til… not Happy!!

Oh no.

Definitely… maybe.

One of the greatest extremes from one meaning to the other. I love it for its bi polar nature.

Well that’s awkward.

Incredible.

In Ex HA HA le le!!!

Who injured the burgers?

So you’re a what now?

How the hell is anyone supposed to read this?! LOL!

Right, right.

WHen then?!

Why is there a YALP in there? Yo, work hard, LK, Yalp!

This one barely makes it in, but I like it because it sounds like an insult.

Got incepted by that one.

The COVID edition:

Let’s not beat the children please.

This one comes with the comment, “don’t cross your legs!”

Honk Jesus Honk!!

 

Again, I have no clue what the hell this is:

And finally….

Doesn’t seem right.

Here’s the solution to the meme that started it all:

OK I see now!

There’s a thread on Reddit documenting some of these under a famous one from the Walking Dead called “Don’t Dead Open Inside,” but you really have to dig through it to get to the gems. As far as I know there’s no name for this, it’s not a malapropism exactly, or a spoonerism or a kniferism, it’s *almost* a metathesis, but not quite. Whatever they are, they bring me a lot of joy.