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so there's been this big Clear Channel digital countdown to the world cup billboard in Oakland for the last six months, except the world cup is over, and they haven't found someone new to buy the billboard space, so right now it just says: "-51 days till all eyes are on the Bay Area!"

oh my god

I was

meticulously

cataloguing these

okay but Doesn't "-X days until" mean "+X days after" So the thing's already happened?

Yes. That's precisely why it's funny, because the expectation is that the billboard would get replaced when the thing happened, or that the code would just stop at zero, but instead it just kept ticking into the negative LOL

ohhhhhhh I thought it was someone trying to do "T-18 until launch" or something