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most this or most that - neon or plywood - which one d/you walk past every day and which ones get your goat - my current favorite = eminently semiotic chinese sign-making store w/entrance on delancey whose facade sports enormous light-up word: "SIGN"

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

also search nyc: wall-sized jumbotron on bway (or is it 7th?) between 49th and 50th which often shows cgi-generated SILHOUETTES OF GIANT PEOPLE walking north or south along the 2-d side of the building. c'est tres eerie to catch this out of corner of your eye. "hello giant friends."

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a dry cleaners just by the railway bridge at the top end of mare street called VENUS BIG BOOTS: does this mean anything to anyone, cz i wuv it but i don't get it => the ppl who run it are turkish i think (and very nice)

― mark s, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ananova.com/images/news/dutchforestsign309x500.jpg

― Tom, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there's this place in Old Trafford called HOuse of Fires. Sells mantelpeces, fire surrounds. FOr years it had this faux-fairground thing with flying union jacks and stuff and it said HOUSE OF FIRES: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.

odd.

― misterjones, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that's like the kubrick remake of carry on camping, tom

― mark s, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s in dry-cleaning shockah!!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We drove past one a couple of days ago by a cornfield (it was in/near Mennonite country in Pennsylvania) that said something like "The Lord Clothed Adam and Eve." This was following one that said "Do you hate sin?" Oooh and later there was a big billboard by the road that said "The Virgin Mary Talks to America" and had a phone number underneath, I liked that one.

― Maria, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On Newark Ave in Jersey City: "We activate cellulars phone." In dry cleaner somewhere in Chinatown: "Dry cleaning done on premise."

― Pyth, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I drive past a butchers which has a big sign 'home killed meat', which is an appetising thought. Do they do it in the kitchen or in the living room?

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh god I almost forgot... on Alcoa Highway on the way to the Knoxville airport you pass "Mountain Tattoo" run by a very nice man named Preacher... the sign out front:::: "tattoos while u wait"

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There was one on a stall on Tottenham Court Road which said "Can Drink 50p", which I thought sounded impressive. As an ex-editor I notice the errors: a market stall labelled "Jone's" (I know, it's possible) and a shop in Leicester with a sign saying "Stationary". Well, yes.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

heh. let's not even get into the various apostrophe calamities that routinely befall grocers' discount signage...

the closest HSBC to where i work has a sign on its glass doors that reads "this vestibule not to be used as a thoroughfare"... i have checked it out thoroughly but the only place it leads is right into the bank!!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sign on the outskirts of navan reads "navan - a nice place to shop" navan,for the record,is an extremely dull country town in ireland,fairly grim....

― robin, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A tyre place I passed this morning used to offer "Punctures - £3". I didn't need any at the time.

As for the famous grocers' apostrophe, there is no contest. A North London one had them on every plural, which is normal, but it also offered the unbeatable "ASPARAGU'S".

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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