Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Redundancy Award for Redundancy

On the way to the beach (again) on Saturday, my friends and I were baffled by a generic ATM that said "ATMS CASH."


The machine doesn't feature a punctuation error; it's just generally bizarre. I guess the problem is that the "S" in "ATM" shouldn't be there. I wanted to take a picture of it without the random guy in it (sorry, random guy!), but he was standing at the ATM for about five minutes, and I just couldn't wait any longer. He must have been confused by the sign, too.

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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 29, 2008 at 12:37 PM

    The extra S is indeed odd, but perhaps the use of both ATM and CASH were to assist those that don't know what ATM means.

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  2. BeckyJuly 29, 2008 at 12:51 PM

    That is certainly possible. It would be fine if it said, "Get cash here" or something.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2008 at 2:11 AM

    Maybe the signmaker was trying to indicate that the cash belongs to the ATM, but they left out an apostrophe? I know it's unlikely, but that's the only way this sign makes sense to me.

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