Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/16/things-that-have-been-mildly-v.html
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A local service station had a large white tank near the side of the road with a single word on it: PROPANE. For years, I wanted to slap a little bit of white duct tape on it, turning it into PROFANE.
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I have a compulsion to white-out all Liquid Paper vials I come across to read “Liquid ape.”
Also, used to be with fancy cars with the sticking-up hood ornaments like BMW, Mercedes etc, you could twist the ornament 90 degrees and it would stay that way due to a rubber band inside. I would do this to every car I came across. One time a yuppie owner saw me and got enraged. I told him I was improving the aerodynamics.
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There’s a village near me called Shilbottle and whenever the black tape from that crosses the first l is removed someone invariably puts it back
The best variation on this I’ve seen is changing Hutton Roof, a village in Cumbria, to Button Moon, an 80s kids TV show
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Decades ago, when the yellow “I Found It” bumper stickers were showing up everywhere, someone showed how easy it was to change the “F” to a “P”. First time I saw it I blurted coffee out my nose…
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Makes me think of . . .
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Bastards!
Oh yeah, the Public Radio bumper stickers that say “Go Public” in white text on black? You just have to black out the “l”
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For years some wag in our town defaced this “Colonies” sign to read “Colonics”:
(crummy photo but you get the idea)
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This is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put!
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Carry on! I admire brilliant and subversive public communication.
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I think some posters don’t seem to grasp the intricacies of mild vandalism, but the ones who do…precious.
Sani-Cloth. 
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I have long wanted to change “No Trespassing” signs to “No Traipsing” .
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Heh. I know the very sign. Can confirm. Everyone calls it Shitbottle and always has.
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A local giggle near me in the eighties was a building called One Canal Place that was regularly modified to read One anal ace.
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When I was a kid there was some guy named “Dick Bran” running for supervisor or state assembly or something in Sonoma County. Someone added a strategically placed “i” to all of his campaign signs along highway 101, which 13-year-old me thought was hilarious.
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Push Butt
Rub hand gently under arm
stop auto at ally
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That’s a classic
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