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Thread #15955   Message #145795
Posted By: catspaw49
06-Dec-99 - 10:15 PM
Thread Name: TOTAL BS: Signs of Our Times
Subject: TOTAL BS: Signs of Our Times
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 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. That kind of thing.

I saw a real goody today!!! And don't you know I'm just dying to call them!!! We passed a small plant, probably specializing in sandpaper or carborundum wheels or whatever with a nice sign out front that read:

ABRASIVE TECHNOLOGIES

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 get the foccker to work and its a real pisser....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...........

Got a few of these you've seen???

Spaw