Well Bobertz, since you asked...........Everytime this subject comes up I think first of the old Steve Allan Show. I've always loved wacky signs. I used to love the "National Lampoon's" sign pages. Some are done to be cutesy or gross such as a butcher friend of mine who did actually have a slogan on his price board that said, "You Can't Beat My Meat." But those aren't all that humorous. The really funny ones are the unintentional things that you may need to be a bit "whacked" to appreciate. Like "Big A Cleaners"--Steve Allan called them from his TV show and asked how much it would cost to clean his big A.

We have a few around here of course and they may be where you are too, like the chain of art supply stores, Dick Blick. Or another artsy supply place, AB Dick. I know I have a juvenile mind, but I swear to you I would change my name if it were Richard. (And I hate to mention the DT's very own Dick Greenhaus......can you imagine what that would look like? Boggles the mind;long tables with little pots and dicks growing out of them.......Sorry Dick)

We passed a small plant, probably specializing in sandpaper or carborundum wheels or whatever with a nice sign out front that read:

ABRASIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Now don't you know I just am dying to call these people? Uh,huh. Phone call:
"Hello, I want to talk to you about this damn (insert computer thing, ie. scanner). The directions really suck and I can't get the focker to work and its a real pisser. I can't think of anything so abrasive as this piece of crap!......Not a gawddamn bit user friendly. I figure you must have made it, so tell me what the hell I gotta' do to get it working."

Can you see the poor slob on the other end? And you could play it for awhile too. Anyway...........

Then there's this roadhouse outside of Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, just north of Chattanooga on 27. Someone new came along in the early eighties and reopened this dive with a fresh coat of paint and a huge new professional looking sign out front. They called the place "Celebrate".......Sadly, the sign painter must have been paid ahead in trade, because one side was missing the "R".......still spelled wrong (Celebate)....... but somehow you just KNEW you weren't going to get any action in that dive!

I think there is but one gas station in Mousie, Kentucky, but it has a big sign that says, Mousie Gas.......can you imagine what that smells like?

Spaw