I've pointed out before (here and here) how quotations can be misused with tragic results.
I say again: quotation marks do NOT add emphasis (that's what italics, boldface, underlining, and capital letters are for). Quotes are used to quote someone (is that so hard?), or to make a sarcastic joke, which is what this unfortunately punctuated sign ends up looking like.
Too bad they don't teach that kind of thing anymore in this nation's public "schools".
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I also like that the light changes the p at the end of keep to an r, resulting in Keef Middletown "Clean". I like to imagine it as a warning to Keith Richards that his dangerous habits have no purchase with the citizens of Middletown.
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