Thanks! We’re lucky we can grow anything. I like that cacti/succulents are easy (i.e. no care), but I also love how they look. I’ve noticed some of my neighbors using them, too, after I’d had mine for a while.
That’s a camelia behind/next to the sign. It’s part of the condo plantings. Too bad it’s slightly too late for it to be in bloom, they’re really pretty – although the squirrels love to eat the hips.
carrps, I’ve located that sign online, on t-shirts AND sweatshirts. I’ll be ordering soon, since anything with a dachshund draws me in.
30+ years ago, a movie theatre was showing “Kiss of the Spider Woman”, “White Knights” (with Baryshnikov and Hines), and “Plenty” (with Meryl Streep).
The way they set up the sign was:
Kiss of the Baryshnikov
Spider Woman Hines
Meryl Streep White Knights
Plenty In Stereo
with a lot less space between the two vertical sections, than I show here.
We decided that Mr. Hines’ first name was Spider Woman, and that “Kiss of the Baryshnikov” would be an excellent title for a horror movie (about dancing?).
We got a bumper sticker with an order from Penzey’s Spices. It reads
Love People
Cook Them Tasty Food
We put this in the front cover of our recipe binder. I’m really tempted to cut off the last two words. “To Serve Mankind” indeed…
I saw this on a theater marquee a couple years ago:
“Lego Batman I am Not Your Negro”
Going further back, a confluence of a new sci-fi movie and and employee shortage led to this at a local cinema:
Mission to Mars
Now Hiring!
We just added a comma to ours. Right after “them.”
Max loves you, too!
Even if he’s too tired to show it.
Years ago, when driving thru Flemington, NJ, I drove past a strip mall, their marquee was advertising the pizza joint in the mall, also named after the town.
Flem Pizza
Snot a place I want to eat at.
Max could be a twin of Mauser!!! Same color and pale face. Also the laid back look to him.
One large pepperoni, no string cheese. Please.
Scenario for guard duty during USAF basic training:
Guard - "Halt, who goes there "
No answer
Guard - "Who goes there "
No answer
Guard - “Are you gonna tell me who you is or am I gonna find out who you was”
Although Max is only, as we say, “mostly dachshund.” We got him from a dachshund rescue, but when we first saw him, we knew he was mixed with something. Still call him a doxie.
And he’s only laid back if there’s no one to bark at or squirrels or crows to chase.
I think they do it on purpose. Our local theater a few years ago had this:
How to Train your Dragon 2
Deliver Us From Evil
Jersey Boys
A few months back was eastbound and down through west Texas and saw this one. I don’t seem to be allowed to imbed media items, so here’s an Imgur link.
if that’s hard to read for anyone, it’s a semi trailer with an arrow to the left marked “El Paso”, to the right “El Smasho”.
Note: if you put the imgur link on a line by itself, the picture will magically appear, thusly. Click to see the whole thing.
If you want the whole image to appear, right click on the imgur image (on the imgur site) and choose “open image in new tab,” the paste the link from the URL bar.
While waiting in the George Washington Bridge toll queue one day I was behind a semi that had G.O.D. in huge letters on the rear doors. Only when I pulled beside it did I see “Guaranteed Overnight Delivery”.
Oh, and The Commonwealth of Virginia has or had a vanity plate option that had Kids First across the bottom edge of the plate. One wag chose the message to go above that, Eat The.
This actually happened.
Dang it, now I need to find our stash of Sharpies.
Cinema marquee for a double feature back in the '70s:
VANNIE | CARRESSA
(Instead of Carrie and Vanessa. I don’t remember where the extra N came from.)
I’ve seen these trucks lots of times.
Jack Chalker, science fiction and fantasy author, wrote a trilogy about a supernatural company named G.O.D. Incorporated, unaware that a real company named G.O.D. existed. (I don’t recall what “G.O.D.” stood for in Chalker’s books, but they were responsible for a lot of the cheap stuff advertised on late night TV, and which was imported from another dimension).
I was at a convention attending a lecture by Chalker, in which he told us that he was waiting at a traffic light when a truck with “G.O.D.” pulled up behind him and stopped. He said he freaked out.
