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U-Haul goes to the dark side

Wharehouse Sale
At least the word “Sale” looks nice, and it’s just some local guy scrawling on a chalkboard so maybe the misspelling’s not too surprising.

U-Haul used to have on the side of their trucks the name of a state with a relevant mural. They were attractive and it was always nice seeing another U-Haul with state art that I hadn’t seen before. They’ve started to get rid of the paintings and replace them with an insipid, unremarkable $19.95 per day message. It’s bad enough they eliminated the creativity, but the spelling error is inexcusable…

U-haul only $19.95 plus milage

February 29th, 2008 9 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Bad Ads

  1. annie posted the following on 29 February 2008 at 5:09 pm.

    be glad he didn’t misspell it with an “o”.

    maybe the u-haul ad guy was chinese and meant to say “mirage”. you know how we are with the “r’s” and the “l’s”.

    that makes no sense. i have food coma.

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  2. Polly posted the following on 1 March 2008 at 6:44 pm.

    Annie and I are thinking on same track. At first glance my dyslexic mind thought it said whorehouse. :-)

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  3. l3rucewayne posted the following on 1 March 2008 at 7:50 pm.

    I didn’t even notice the misspelling in the first photo, but “milage” caught my eye.

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  4. Allen posted the following on 1 March 2008 at 8:33 pm.

    Donnie, this is just as bad as “milleage”

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  5. Tacticus Maximus posted the following on 2 March 2008 at 7:40 pm.

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=milage

    http://dictionary.die.net/milage

    http://www.yourdictionary.com/milage

    http://www.answers.com/topic/mileage

    http://www.seslisozluk.com/?word=milage

    http://www.audioenglish.net/dictionary/milage.htm

    http://www.webster-dictionary.net/definition/Milage

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  6. The Mascot posted the following on 3 March 2008 at 1:39 pm.

    Wahahaha! Thanks Tacticus for pointing out, once again, that I work for a complete fool.

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  7. Donnie posted the following on 3 March 2008 at 11:36 pm.

    Thanks Tacticus for pointing out, once again, that I look like a complete fool.

    Although if this was the price for not going 0-9, I’ll gladly take it.

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  8. annie posted the following on 4 March 2008 at 12:38 am.

    Poo Websters. Type in “milage” in Word and you get the red squiggly underline. Therefore “milage” is at best a mistake in spelling and at worst an imaginary word. Like misunderestimate.

    HA! Vindicated! Put that in your shell and beat it, Mascot. (and Tacticus, but to a lesser extent). hahaha

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  9. Donnie posted the following on 5 March 2008 at 10:09 pm.

    Or Microsoft is wrong and those other people are right.

    Factoid: Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client considers Thunderbird a misspelling.

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