# A sign I saw at the dry cleaners: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336 "2000-08-22T17:41:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/1 "2000-08-22T17:41:01Z")
Drop your pants here. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/2 "2000-08-22T17:55:04Z")
Ha! I was shopping at a clothing store once and saw a sign by the cash register that said, “All merchandise must be returned within 30 days.” “Well, why even bother buying it, then?” I thought, and left. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/3 "2000-08-22T19:28:11Z")
In the hot dog stand business, many vendors buy their hot dog buns from a bakery called MaryAnne’s. The stand I worked at used to have a sign that said, “Mary Ann has nice buns” ::giggle giggle:: ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/4 "2000-08-22T20:52:43Z")
Once I was at Macy’s and saw a sign that said “Boot Sale! Buy one get one free!” and I thought…“Isn’t that how they’re usually sold?” ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/5 "2000-08-22T21:14:42Z")
In Murray, Utah there is a dry cleaning place right next to a Conoco on State Street, anyway on one of their signs outside, listing the items they can clean is marked in large foot-and-a-half high letters “Wedding Dresse” Now this is a painted sign so no letters fell off, and there is no damage to the sign, i am assuming that they just ran out of space and figured “they can deduce it from that” ---
**Author:** ![Shaky\_Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@Shaky\_Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shaky_Jake)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/6 "2000-08-22T21:27:34Z")
Sign at a local mall when I was a kid: “Ears pierced while you wait” Shaky Jake ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/7 "2000-08-23T02:48:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lucky \* > \*\*In the hot dog stand business, many vendors buy their hot dog buns from a bakery called MaryAnne’s. The stand I worked at used to have a sign that said, “Mary Ann has nice buns” ::giggle giggle:: \*\* _blush_ ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/8 "2000-08-23T02:53:29Z")
Sign at the cash register at a 7-11 near my house: Express lane, 187 items or less. I always wanted to ask where do you go if you have 188 items (there is only one cash register in the store) ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/9 "2000-08-23T03:16:36Z")
“No shirt, no shoes, no service” Um, ok so technically speaking we can enter wearing no pants or underwear! LOL ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/10 "2000-08-23T03:28:43Z")
There’s a sign making place by my house. And their sign says something that makes me giggle (even though, at 22, I should be too old for this) Signs. Service. Erection. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/11 "2000-08-23T03:30:00Z")
The Llama and I had a hard laugh at the names of a couple of restaurants in China Town: **Ocean Seafood** Oooh, my that’s my _favorite_ kind of seafood! **OK Seafood Restaurant** “So, how’s the food here?” “Ehh, it’s okay.” Meanwhile, I’ve started taking pictures of these kinds of silly signs. _ **Shameless Plug** _They’re at my photo album website, [http://www.picturetrail.com/laurarae](http://www.picturetrail.com/laurarae) I also have a book of sign gaffs…my favorite is actually misspelled graffiti: “I LOVE YOU SWEATHEART!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/12 "2000-08-23T03:36:33Z")
Ample Paking from your site. Is that in Boston, by any chance? Horse racing…is that where your username comes from? And “Ocean Seafood” brings up a question. What is freshwater rainbow trout, or catfish called? Riverfood? Nice photos. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/13 "2000-08-23T04:29:15Z")
Why so much trouble trying to stop people from copying the photos to their hard disks? I guess it might stop a few but most people would know to find them in the temporary internet files folder or directly on the server. [http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL3/73667/117157/675086.jpg](http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL3/73667/117157/675086.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/14 "2000-08-23T04:39:10Z")
At Bertha’s seafood restaurant in Fells Point, Baltimore: “Eat Bertha’s Mussels” At a marina restaurant in Virginia: “You can beat our prices but you can’t beat our meat” ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/15 "2000-08-23T20:58:00Z")
Outside a kebab shop in London: CHICKEN DONOR, £2.00 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/16 "2000-08-23T22:15:33Z")
In San Francisco I once saw (and photographed!) this sign: EMBARCADERO CONSTRUCTION PLEASE ADHERE TO SIGNS AND FLAGMAN Can’t I just obey the signs and flagman without being stuck to them? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/17 "2000-08-23T22:24:50Z")
And this sign (for a movie that never clicked) on a local marquee: JAMES GARNER IN TANK What was he doing _there?_ 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/18 "2000-08-23T22:39:55Z")
First a little background. Back when I lived in Oklahoma, Automobile Tag Agencies and Drivers License places were privately owned businesses. In my hometown in Shattuck, Ok, (Pop. 1100) the guy that owned the local tag agency also owned a liquor store. He ran both businesses out of the same building. It always cracked me up that one side of the sign advertised for license renewals and the otherside advertised for booze. One stop shopping for the drunk driver with an expired tag. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/19 "2000-08-23T22:47:40Z")
Movie Theater Marquee: 101 DALMATIANS THE HOWLING Now **there’s** a double feature! ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336/20 "2000-08-23T22:57:43Z")
Movie marquee: 101 DALMATIANS DYING YOUNG And my favorite, from the sign book I mentioned previously: THE FLY GODS MUST BE CRAZY ALIENS You know, you never can trust those fly gods. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sign-i-saw-at-the-dry-cleaners/30336.md?page=2)