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20 Jul 06 - 09:03 AM (#1788151) Subject: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Have you seen, heard, or read about any witty, funny, thoughtful, or downright raunchy billboard signs? In addition to advertising billboards, churche marquees often have thoughtful, and witty signs that make use of play on words. Share your finds here, if you have a mind to! ;o) |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:04 AM (#1788156) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Btw, before starting this thead I did a Mudcat Supersearch using the key words "billboard signs', funny billboard signs, witty billboard signs, and marquee messages". The first key words resulted in this link only: Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=1404167 All the other Mudcat searches resulted in no messages. I'm sure there must be other Mudcat messages on this topic, and perhaps there's previous threads. If so, I'd love to read them. If you know of any Mudcat threads or examples from other websites, and if the spirit moves you, please posts links to them here. Thanks! |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:06 AM (#1788157) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi A sign from a Pentacostal church marquee: "An open enemy is better than a false friend". |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:11 AM (#1788159) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Wesley S There was a church here in town that said "We preach from the King James translation of the bible - the one that God uses". |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:26 AM (#1788170) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: wysiwyg There's a whole website devoted to these, both genuine ones and people's photo-shopped creations. ~S~ |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:32 AM (#1788176) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Sorry about that hyperlink mess up in my 20 Jul 06 - 09:04 AM post. |
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20 Jul 06 - 10:06 AM (#1788200) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: wysiwyg Here's the current Help Forum thread for requesting links fixes: http://help.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=3067 ~Susan |
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20 Jul 06 - 10:23 AM (#1788217) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: katlaughing A lot of them got posted in the myriad of bumper stickers threads. |
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20 Jul 06 - 10:28 AM (#1788225) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: GUEST This thread is pretty funny Road signs |
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20 Jul 06 - 10:29 AM (#1788226) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: JohnInKansas I may have posted it elsewhere, but the butcher shop in South Haven Kansas, about 8 or 9 miles from the OK border on US81, has a marquee sign on the front of the shop with the ever popular: "NOBODY BEATS OUR MEAT" I've been meaning to get a "proof of" photo for years, but never seem to go through there in daylight. John |
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20 Jul 06 - 10:42 AM (#1788233) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Thank you, Guest, for posting that link. |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:13 AM (#1788264) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Jim Dixon There's a bar in northeast Minneapolis called Mayslack's that is famous for its roast-beef sandwiches. For years they have used the slogan "Nobody beats Mayslack's meat." (See the crawling message on the web site.) |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:16 AM (#1788271) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Jim Dixon Mayslack's also has T-shirts with the slogan. |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:45 AM (#1788289) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Wesley S There is a BBQ place across from the Alamo that uses it too. |
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20 Jul 06 - 12:00 PM (#1788299) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: catspaw49 Personally, I like travelling down I-75 between Cincy and Lexington where a huge sign invites you to Big Bone Lick State Park. The county to the north of us is Licking County and the Masonic Lodge there chose the unfortunate name of Licking Lodge. Probably some real interesting meetings there............... Spaw |
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20 Jul 06 - 12:37 PM (#1788335) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Bill D somewhere, I have a slide I personally took while heading south from Kansas City on the highway parallelling the Missouri border. There was a simple local business with the simple billboard above it..."69 Motel" |
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20 Jul 06 - 05:17 PM (#1788575) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Liz the Squeak There's one near us in east London over a dry cleaners, dating from the 1930's... 'Don't beat your wife, let us do it'... LTS |
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20 Jul 06 - 08:05 PM (#1788723) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Kaleea Bill, that's not the only 69 Motel. There's one in Oklahoma where I spent my honeymoon, many many moons ago. It was, of course, on Highway 69. Back then, one would occasionally come across some old Burma Shave signs. Some of them were funny. |
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20 Jul 06 - 08:37 PM (#1788743) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Give Us Back/Our Burma Shave "Remember the one that went, HENRY THE EIGHTH / SURE HAD / TROUBLE / SHORT TERM WIVES / LONG TERM STUBBLE? And who could forget this one? CAUTIOUS RIDER / TO HER/RECKLESS DEAR / LET'S HAVE LESS BULL / AND LOST MORE STEER. If you were born before 1955, you grew up with Burma-Shave signs. Perhaps you never actually shaved with the stuff, but chances are good you cracked a smile as the red-and-white signs whizzed past on your family's vacation to the mountains or along your route to the nearest town... Whiskers, safe driving, and romantic humor continued as the hallmarks of the Burma-Shave ad campaigns, with road safety edging out as a favorite theme by the early 1940's. PAST / SCHOOLHOUSES / TAKE IT SLOW / LET THE LITTLE SHAVERS GROW / BURMA-SHAVE succinctly managed to deliver a public service message, delight carloads, and advertise simultaneously.... One study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania claimed that the Burma-Shave signs were a singularly successful means of slowing speeders. This 1955 series captures the unique ability of the ads to both gently admonish drivers and pitch their product in the final sign: SLOW DOWN, PA / SAKES ALIVE / MA MISSED SIGNS FOUR/ AND FIVE / BURMA SHAVE." |
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20 Jul 06 - 08:39 PM (#1788744) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi So...I'm not the only one who makes typos. Isn't that sentence supposed to read "LET'S HAVE LESS BULL / AND LOTS MORE STEER." ? |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:16 PM (#1788760) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Bill D PEDRO WALKED/HOME, BY GOLLY/HIS BRISTLY CHIN/WAS HOT-TO-MOLLY |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:21 PM (#1788762) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: freightdawg Around the curve the car was whizzn the fault was hers the funeral hizzn Burma Shave In this world of toil and sin men's head grows bald but not their chin Burma Shave (My dad loved those old signs. I have a complete book of the Burma Shave story and all the road signs somewhere) Freightdawg |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:22 PM (#1788763) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: wysiwyg Definitive Burma Shave Burma Shave! ~S~ |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:54 PM (#1788786) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Susan, thanks for those links. |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:55 PM (#1788788) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace Religion. |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:57 PM (#1788790) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace Religion. |
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20 Jul 06 - 10:02 PM (#1788793) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Janie Amusing mispelling on a restaurant marquee in in Fairmont, WV "Now Excepting Reservations" It stayed that way for months. |
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20 Jul 06 - 10:06 PM (#1788795) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Janie Errrr *blush* make that misspelling--and thanks friend for catching it before I 'catch it.' Janie |
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20 Jul 06 - 10:15 PM (#1788797) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi THANKS to all who have and those who will post links to Mudcat threads and links to other online examples of this topic. Let the fun continue! And please don't forget to share any serious cleverly worded marquee messages that you have seen or read or heard of. Best wishes, Azizi |
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20 Jul 06 - 10:28 PM (#1788803) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace More religion . . . . |
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20 Jul 06 - 10:37 PM (#1788809) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: JohnInKansas As they're all phony, these might be called thread drift; but one never knows when one of these Scary Signs might pop up in front of you. [Note that there appear to be about 5 separate "series" at the site if you click the "related" button. Some of them seem to disappear if traffic gets heavy.] John |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:01 PM (#1788823) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Bruce, when I clicked that last link you provided, the heading said "access prohibited" and there's a message from www.beautifulbritain.co.uk Am I the only one who has gotten that "access denied" message? **** JohninKansas, those signs were a hoot! What? They're phony? Naw, say it aint so. :o) |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:03 PM (#1788824) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace It says, "If you are reading this sign, the pub is behind you." |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:19 PM (#1788831) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Well, obviously we have two different computers. That's strange. I don't get that message at all from that link. And as for "If you are reading this sign, the pub is behind you.", I don't get it. I guess you have to have been there, or seen the visuals. What's the punch line? |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:21 PM (#1788832) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace I would take that to mean that if one is drunk enough to be reading the sign, one is likely too drunk to know where the pub is. |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:26 PM (#1788834) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Okay. I liked your earlier links in this thread better. And I still don't understand why my access is denied. |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:27 PM (#1788839) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi But it's not the end of the world if I don't get it or not. Hmmmm. I hasten to say that "it" doesn't mean "it". |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:28 PM (#1788841) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/images/OutAndAbout/sign_language/turn_round.jpg Try a google of that, Azizi. |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:35 PM (#1788845) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi That worked. Finally. Not that this is a contest or anything, but I still say I liked the other links you posted better particularly the first one. |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:38 PM (#1788849) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace More religion. |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:40 PM (#1788851) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace Yep, you guessed it. |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:45 PM (#1788854) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Amos Or Click here. A |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:48 PM (#1788855) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Um, Bruce. Those last two links you provided didn't have anything to do with religion. Not that the last one said it did [have something to do with religion] but you sort of implied it by that caption. And while it's true that people's view of what religion can differ, I think you might want to change the captions on your links. Just a thought. Not a directive. |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:52 PM (#1788857) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Amos. Thanks, I got it. But I have to say that I wasn't that impressed with it. "It" being that link. [Less anyone think that my mind is on anything else but these billboard or marquee signs]. |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:52 PM (#1788858) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace Oh . . . . |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:54 PM (#1788861) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi say can you see... |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:55 PM (#1788863) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:57 PM (#1788864) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi by the dawn's early light... |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:58 PM (#1788865) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Peace Dang. OK. It's like this: Some folks say God made it all. Therefore, everything's religion. Anyway. I didn't know how to spell aethist, aethiest, etheist--well, anyway . . . . |
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20 Jul 06 - 11:59 PM (#1788866) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Btw-those last couple of posts were called "Thread Drift" aka "going off topic". |
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21 Jul 06 - 12:01 AM (#1788868) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Yeah. What you said. |
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21 Jul 06 - 12:05 AM (#1788871) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Azizi Now, back to our regularly scheduled program: http://www.butlerwebs.com/jokes/bloopers.htm Outside a muffler shop: "No appointment necessary. We hear you coming." At An Auto Body Shop: "May we have the next dents?" Sign in 'George's Service Station' Glen Ellen, CA: If your car sounds like: "ping-click-ping" - $10.00 "click-whine-click" - $25.00 "clunk-whine-clunk" - $50.00 "thud-clunk-thud" - $100.00 "clang-thudc-clang" - $300.00 "Can't describe it" - $500.00 At An Auto Repair Service Station: Free pick-up and delivery. Try us once, you'll never go anywhere again. At A Tire Shop In Milwaukee: "Invite us to your next blowout." At a Towing Company: "We don't want an arm and a leg. We want your tows." Sign at a Chicago radiator shop: "Best place in town to take a leak." |
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21 Jul 06 - 01:07 AM (#1788902) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: Bert I know that I've posted these before, but seiing as you can't find the thread here goes again. Outside a church in Alabama "Pornography awareness week" - I bet they packed thenm in the aisles that week. On highway 85 "Live Dancers" |
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09 Nov 06 - 09:58 PM (#1880838) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: bobad Bizarre signs along the road of life |
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10 Nov 06 - 04:27 PM (#1882503) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: SharonA There's a local carpet store whose owner likes to put punny definitions on his sign. For instance, some recent ones are... Royal Flush = The queen's hot flash Insane = Bridge jumpers in Paris Physiology = the study of carbonation ("Fizzy-ology"... get it?) |
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10 Nov 06 - 10:33 PM (#1882824) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: The Fooles Troupe Seen in Toowoomba - MR STOOL Stools made to order. I'm not making this up you know... |
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11 Nov 06 - 04:00 AM (#1882929) Subject: RE: BS: Billboard signs & marqee messages From: eddie1 On a long ago trip to Edinburgh Zoo, I photographed a post with two signs on it. 1. "Gents Toilet" 2. "Exhibition Area Under Development" I carried that pic around in my wallet till it fell to pieces! Eddie |
