Someone Crossed Out One Word (8 Photos)

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A yellow marquee sign says people write congrats because they cannot spell congrajlashins.

Messages Worth Stopping For

Eight public messages, from a spelling joke and free flowers to a mural about asking for help. Words and familiar signs do the work.


White letters spelling “Teach” and “Peace” interlock across a rainbow-painted wooden fence, half hidden behind shrubs.

🕊️ “Teach Peace”

The letters overlap, but the instruction is hard to miss.

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On a pale brick wall in Bristol, a stencil of a child holding a teddy bear reaches up with red paint, crossing out “with” so the black text reads “Be someone that makes you happy.”

😊 “Be Someone That Makes You Happy” — Bristol, UK 🇬🇧

One red line crosses out “with,” and the advice changes.

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Yellow dahlias in glass jars on a small folding table by the road, with a handwritten sign: “Free, take one! A little bit of sunshine to brighten your day! (Please leave the table).”

🌼 Take a Little Sunshine

Yellow flowers in jars, a handwritten sign, and a simple offer: take one.

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A pickup truck on a highway with a hand-painted tailgate reading “Poverty exists not because we can’t feed the poor, but because we can’t satisfy the rich.”

🚚 “Poverty Exists…”

Painted on a tailgate, the message goes wherever the truck goes.

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HERA’s mural at Teufelsberg in Berlin shows two women wearing owl and fox headdresses, beside the words “Asking for help is never a weakness,” the German line “Du bist nie schwach, wenn Du Dir Hilfe suchst” and the helpline number 116 016.

🦉 “You Are Never Weak When You Seek Help” — By HERA in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

HERA (Jasmin Siddiqui) painted the mural in May 2025 on a wall more than 17 meters high at Teufelsberg in Berlin for the Hilfetelefon “Gewalt gegen Frauen,” the German helpline for women affected by violence. Two figures in owl and fox headdresses stand beside the words “Asking for help is never a weakness” and the same message in German. Photo by Onuschka.

💡 Place Fact: Teufelsberg is a man-made hill: after World War II, trucks dumped rubble from the bombed city there until 1972. From the 1950s, U.S. forces used antennas and radomes on its summit to intercept Eastern Bloc radio signals until the end of the Cold War.

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Blue handwriting along the bottom of a blank white roadside billboard reads “I wish I was a little bit taller,” with a stadium floodlight tower behind it.

📏 A Billboard With One Small Wish

A huge blank billboard. One small wish at the bottom.

💡 Music Fact: The line echoes Skee-Lo’s 1995 single “I Wish,” which peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for the Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, losing to Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise.”

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A yellow marquee sign reads “People write congrats because they cant spell congrajlashins.”

🔤 “Congrajlashins”

The punch line is the last word.

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AxZstreetart’s The Last STOP in Warsaw: a miniature Last Supper scene sits along the top of the white bar on a red no-entry traffic sign.

🛑 “The Last STOP” — By AxZstreetart in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱

AxZstreetart turns a no-entry sign into a tiny stage for the Last Supper, as shared on the artist’s Instagram.

💡 History Fact: Leonardo painted The Last Supper in Milan between 1494 and 1498, not as a true fresco but with tempera laid on dry plaster, and the painting began to deteriorate just a few years after completion. A restoration that took more than 20 years was finished in 1999.

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