At the entrance to a big church / school complex I saw a banner sign advertising the upcoming performance of Pope - A - Palooza.
What made it amusing was I read it as
Poop-a-Palooza.
Oops. Which rhymes with … well you know
At the entrance to a big church / school complex I saw a banner sign advertising the upcoming performance of Pope - A - Palooza.
What made it amusing was I read it as
Poop-a-Palooza.
Oops. Which rhymes with … well you know
I admit, I did some immature giggling when I saw the name of the headliner (Mac McAnally).
D’oh! I completely skipped over noticing that.
Despite visiting the website in some detail.
For many years, I would drive by an abandoned building that had the following sign out front:
NOW HIREING
SEWERS
It finally dawned on me that it had been a textile plant and they were looking for people who could sew.
My French teacher said she saw this sign for a chicken stand and about vomited.
CHIC INN
The sign on my local fabric shop attracted my attention because of this. We need a better name for people who sew. How about clothes menders?
I’ve heard that some use the term needleworkers.
As a kid I used to ride my bike through a light industrial area of town, and a tool & die shop perpetually had a sign up saying “BORING WORKERS WANTED”. I always found that mildly amusing. “I certainly don’t qualify, har har”.
Some people who sew call themselves sewists.
If gendered terms are acceptable, “seamstress” has a long and respected history for naming the folks who make, mend, or alter clothes.
Unrelated to the above …
I always liked to find a juxtaposition of the road warning signs
Slow Children Playing
and
Slow Men Working
My standard quip: “At least they’ll be able to find jobs when they grow up.” I slay me.
also “seamster”
Shakespeare also had sewers. From “Macbeth”:
ACT I SCENE VII The same. A room in Macbeth’s castle
Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the stage. Then enter MACBETH.
The annotations indicate that a “sewer” was a “chief butler”.
Not a reader of Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld” novels then?
Seam-stress also qualifies as a generic expression for fat persons
Tailors. Sewing machine operators. Miliners. Haberdashers. Alterations.
Handiworkers.
I wonder how that was pronounced.
I attended a “wedding” last weekend which was very non-traditional. I actually enjoyed it. No religion present, the ceremony was at “Little Giant” an abandoned warehouse venue. Walls literally in various stages of collapse.
Then everyone walked over to “BottleRocket” a 70s themed Pittsburgh bar where I was reminded of a word from my childhood, “Nebby”, which means “nosy, prying, rudely inquisitive” I never realized it was a Pittsburgh-ese word.
As a kid it was common to hear someone call someone else a “nebshit”.