Australians have a strange
sense of humour. In
Sydney, one of the larger suburban
railway stations is named
Eastwood. Every single printed instance of this word around the station (and far, far beyond) has had the letter "
s" scraped off it, leaving the name "Ea twood". And I literally mean
every instance. There are dozens of them, mostly on station
seats and
signs. Most large public
maps of the area have also been
defaced in this manner. If you're on a
train passing through this station (most northbound trains do so), your bound to see this
phenomenon.
Once a year or so, when the annual
budget is allocated, some of the
signs are restored to say "
Eastwood". This usually lasts for about 6 hours, whereupon the station regains it's new name of "Eatwood".
It's so well known, that I've met several people refer to the whole suburb as "Eatwood".
I won't go into the fact in
Brisbane, there's a suburban station named
Virginia. Thankfully, they use
vinyl printing which cannot be scraped off easily.