It was more like 15 years ago, biqu – reason I know, I was living near VA (in Maryland), and dating a woman whose divorce was being finalized.
She had researched the laws, and claimed that Virginia had laws on the books that would have made us criminals if we’d stopped for the night – we thought about printing up bumper stickers correcting the slogan: Virginia is for some lovers.
There’s a Native territory in southern Ontario inhabited by the Wahta people. A store was recently built. Now, when you drive through the reservation the sign gleams like a beacon in the night -
“A Dry Crack is a Happy Crack” is on a lot of our public buses in St. Louis. I think they’re advertising that they’ll fix cracks in your house’s foundation, but the first time I read that, I lost it.
There’s a local lawyer who advertises on the radio. The first line of the spiel says, “When you’re looking for an attorney, you want someone who will work on your case for you.”
I had a coworker that had a bumper sticker on the back of his car advertising a muffler shop. Dave’s? Bob’s? Anyway it read:
Dave’s Mufflers
No muff to tough
We dive till 5
There was a BBQ joint here called Southern Yankee. Their motto was “Eat here, or we’ll both starve.” The business went belly-up, and it’s now called Baby Bear’s.
Three doors down the street, Fox Radiator Service has, since 1967, been “The best place in town to take a leak.”
Albea Plumbing sponsors a bowling team. The shirts say, on the back, “Your sh_t is our bread and butter.”
A couple of times during my commute I’ve seen a delivery truck for a coffin manufacturer. Emblazoned in large letters on the back of the truck is “Drive carefully - we’ll wait!”.
In downtown Atlanta there used to be (may still be, for all I know) a bakery called “God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and Our Bakery”. Absolutely the best cakes and cookies in town. The only problem was that you never knew in advance when they would be open or what they would have. The owners said “We open when God tells us to, we close when God tells us to, and we bake what God tells us to.” I wonder if my boss would go for that?