Double-Take at Sign

Along a local highway, there is a store that sells sex stuff - vibrators, movies, etc. It’s like an Adam & Eve store. Today as I drove by, there on their electronic, neon colored sign in a running loop was: Anal August Sale! All Anal Products 20% OFF!

Now that’s something you don’t see every day.

:face_with_spiral_eyes:

That is a surprise! Usually they have that sale in April to coincide with tax day :wink:

My first thought was that a few letters dropped out and it spelled something unintended. Their “Annual August Sale” became “An…al August Sale”. But, looks like that’s not the case.

It would seem that the choice of August isn’t accident or coincidence. The following link is spoilered for obvious reasons. Not safe for work:

In brief, in the same way that November is celebrated as Movember - grow a mustache and raise awareness of men’s health issues - Anal August is also a celebration, and has been for about a decade.

No idea how widespread (no pun intended) or well known this is.

j

I assume they must be having a sale on products designed to aid in the careful and exacting organization and categorization of large collections of things. Sounds useful!

I thought maybe the same thing. A sale for people that are persnickety about cleanliness and order. :grinning:

I mean, it is a sex toy shop. How else do you expect them to advertise their wares?

The bottom line is…

“Mommy, what are ‘anal products’?”

Wouldn’t Anal April make more sense than Anal August, since the first phoneme is the same instead of just the first letter?

I would assume that they chose August because they figure that anal is, well, august.

I remember the days when they weren’t so upfront about those products and you could only get to that section through the back door.

I am not a lawyer, but I assume the sign is legal.
:wink:

There’s an auto glass shop near me with a backlit sign on their roof comprised of individual letters. For the longest time, several years at least, the “G” and the “L” didn’t light up, so at night it read “AUTO ASS”

The sex shop probably has a product to facilitate that. And it might even be on sale.

Well, when I went to pick up the dog yesterday the sign was no longer advertising the big Anal August Sale. Someone said something.

Party poopers. :slightly_frowning_face:

Bravo!

j

I thought better of you, Beck.

Reminds me of this…

Wreked 'em? Damn near killed him!