BlACK MINT

Ozzie's coffeehouse is shutting down on 7th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, most likely due to the confusion caused by random lowercase L's that appeared throughout the join, like this pot of BlACK MINT.  It's not about anything else you may have read.

AMBUlETTE

As we hunker down in Brooklyn in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene, emergency teams are gearing up, preparing for the worst.  LOOK OUT! The wind is so strong tonight that it blew the uppercase right off the L in AMBUlETTE.

Try ANGlE

I'm so not handy, I had to look up what an ANGlE GRINDER is.  Apparently it is a tool that is used to grind off the angles of uppercase letters, like an L, to make it into a lowercase L, which has no sharp angles, and looks remarkably like an uppercase i.  Either that or this toolbox belongs to Angie Grinder, and she left it behind on the sidewalk here in Park Slope..

Walking on BROKEN GlASS

Friend and journalist Paul Berger cracked a new case ... as in a box of BROKEN GlASS.

He also just wrote this article about Leon and Brian Dewan of Dewanatron and their new musical invention, the Hymnotron.

Everything in its write PlATES

I agree with Laura B, this PlATES notification found at the Fountain of Juice in Macon, GA is confusing. It could be in reference to Pilates, or a pirate, minus the AARRRRGH.  And now it's impossible to make any corrections to the message, because, in a moment of overconfidence, it has been laminated.  PlATES ARE NOT trash, but this sign is.

PlEASE BUY

On the lowercase L beat in Hartland, MI, George Fox discovered "some sort of vegetable stand. They made a valiant effort in trying to fit in SYSTEM". I'm betting this poor farmer went out of business, because, PlEASE, there is no honor, only shame, in using a lowercase L in that way.

And They Were All YEllOW

stephanni sewell, who spells her name entirely in lowercase letters because she lOVES lower case (and not just the L's!), discovered these 40 NEW YEllOW BOX FLIP FLOPS in, appropriately, the YEllOW ROSE state.  The author of this sign apparently flip flops on the use of proper case with L's, as is evident with the perfect alignment of the first lowercase L in YEllOW above the uppercase i in FLIP.  It hurts my i's to look at it.

APPlE Dips

Happening upon this sign at a Walmart in Georgia, Laura B. commented, "Ah, fall. The season when I think of eating APPlES. And what's an appie without APPlE DIPS?"

Interestingly, the text "APPlE Dips" itself dips, from left to right.

Obviously the Dips does not refer to the price of APPlE COMPUTER stock, which recently reached an all time high of $400 a share, far from dipping.

COlD Case

Found in a secondhand store in Phoenix, Arizona, Leif Swanson proclaimed, "I would gladly forgive this store owner for the lower-case L in exchange for a COlD drink. It was 118 degrees that day in Phoenix."

COOl Down

Hot enough for ya'?

Here in NYC we've been having record-breaking summer scorchers exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit.  Our brothers in the City of Brotherly Love are no better off.  Cameron reports from the streets:

"The heat must've sapped the scribe's desire to write out the full letter. It's a hot day, but I'm not sure if to COOl DOWN with COlD H2O is what I'm after."

As an added bit of irony, besides the lowercase L in COOl looking like an i, even the O's are eyes!