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State warns Expressway motorists

By adamg on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 11:48am
Wicked big stawm

UPDATE: Ye olde ed. got caught by a meme. The message isn't real.

The State Police's Dustin Fitch shows us the sign flashing a warning on the Southeast Expressway into town this morning.

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Comments

By anon on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 11:50am.

Looks kind of fake.

By Mark Ardvant on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 11:56am.

...that's not a real sign. That's an internet joke that Dustin shared. Come on...

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2015/01/26/wicked-big-stawm-sign-isnt...

By Kinopio on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 12:06pm.

I don't have a lot of hard and fast rules in life but I will never purchase a product(Wachusett Green Monsta IPA comes to mind) that spells out broken words in the dumb "Boston accent".

By merlinmurph on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 12:18pm.

...I wouldn't sell it to you

By anon on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 2:28pm.

If you sound that sign out, it's more like a Maine accent.

By scott on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 12:16pm.

stop

By roadman on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 12:23pm.

The cheesy phrasing of the message or the hideously large lettering. Almost looks like a photoshop job.

By Bugs Bunny on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 12:50pm.

I saw the same sign on Twitter before this, I thought it was photoshopped, i couldn't believe a government entity would actually put that nonsense on a public sign.

By Fenwickian on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 12:46pm.

It was funny for five minutes the first time they did it.

By ZachAndTired on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 1:04pm.

IMAGE(https://i.giphy.com/media/l0MYEmThdeq9xSRPi/giphy.webp)

By Rob on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 1:33pm.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that's photoshopped. There is one of those electronic boards there, but that text is larger and more yellow than what's usually out there (unless DOT upgraded more recently than the google views)

By SuperChingon on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 1:34pm.

Its just a joke you guys, have some fun, jeeze.

By anon on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 1:44pm.

If you weren't a native speaker familiar with messing around with the language, you might miss something important.

The joke is done. Put a fork in it.

By anon on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 6:29pm.

It's dumb, and it's overdone by this point.

I wonder also how often people who don't speak fluent English have trouble with nonsense like this ("stawm"?).

By adamg on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 7:08pm.

Thanks to the folks who pointed it out.