This sign has irked me for the past few years when­ever I drive past it. Finally I snapped a quick photo with my phone. (Click to enlarge, sorry about the poor image qual­ity, etc.) You may not know from the sign, but it’s a used car dealer. Of course. You expect a used car dealer to use an aster­isk, don’t you? It’s a cliché. This one uses a brack­eted “o.a.c.” for the same pur­pose. Here’s what we say (oh, but here’s what we actu­ally mean).