Amusing Signs

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 :wink:

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. :man_facepalming:

Despite visiting the website in some detail.

:rage:

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. :grin:

also “seamster”

Among other things.

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.

Cortez CO

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”.