This is a cool thread. Maybe about 25 years ago, in South San Francisco off of the 101 freeway, there was this giant billboard. There no more, and one of my favorites, it was a simple design. Against an all-white background were black letters saying:
KEY PURE ICE UNDER ODE
(Ya gotta say it fast and tie all the words together)
One of my favorite signs is just west of Tuba City AZ. I get a kick out of it, but I think that not many people find it interesting. Nevertheless, I’ll share it here.
This sign is just west of Tuba City AZ. I was on a motorcycle ride from San Francisco to Phoenix.
If you turn left, it’s 70 miles to the South Rim.
If you turn right, it’s 150 miles to the North Rim.
This sign can make one think that the north and south rims are near each other. While as the crow flies they’re only about 10 miles apart, to drive it you’d have to drive 225 miles.
Christ Schmuck is a big German jewelry chain, you’ll see one of their stores in every bigger inner city. “Schmuck” just means “jewelry” in German, and Christ is a common German family name.
For those who (like me) were wondering about the Yiddish word schmuck:
Schmuck, or shmuck, is a pejorative term meaning one who is stupid or foolish, or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person. The word came into the English language from Yiddish (Yiddish: שמאָק, shmok), where it has similar pejorative meanings, but where its literal meaning is a vulgar term for a penis.
In the German language, the word Schmuck means “jewelry, adornment”.[5] It is a nominalization of the German verb schmücken “to decorate” and is unrelated to the word discussed in this article.[2]
I guess in some roundabout, linguistic twist, “penis” might be related to “family jewels.”
30+ years ago (so pre-internet) at one of the lavs backstage where only the union workers had access there was the same sort of dryer. With graffiti reading
Push button for latest Union 800 hotline recording.
So the idea isn’t fresh. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of trump-dryers across the land these days.
There’s a local place in Raleigh called Snoopy’s Hot Dogs. It was converted from an old service station and had a sign out front advertising specials, usually accompanied by a one-liner quip.
Sure enough, that got under the ass of some do-gooders who thought it was in violation of city code, so there ensued a hearing, which drew a lot of local support in favor of leaving Snoopy’s alone.
After the hearing ended, Snoopy’s new sign read something like “Snoopy’s wins lawsuit. Sentences City of Raleigh to reading the First Amendment.”