# Why does my Neighbor have an orange sign with 8.15.10 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 28, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384 "2010-07-28T23:15:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![llazzllo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@llazzllo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llazzllo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/21 "2010-07-29T01:51:13Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > What’s a church revival? It’s where they bring churches back from the dead. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/22 "2010-07-29T01:53:11Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > > [@Cunctator](#): > > > > What’s a church revival? > > It’s when fundies really get down with their bad selves. There’s often a lot of crying, altar-calling, and repenting going on, maybe even some faith healing thrown in for good measure. And if it’s really good, they have rattlesnakes. ---
**Author:** ![Cinebar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Cinebar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinebar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/23 "2010-07-29T01:56:36Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > > [@Cinebar](#): > > > > > [@Cunctator](#): > > > > > > What’s a church revival? > > > > Something Neil Diamond wrote a song about called “Hot August Night.” > > It’s actually [“Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmP43qsAXvk). It’s a way for people to renew their faith, to revive the Christian spirit in themselves (I’ve only heard of Christian revivals). It’s also a way for churches and/or traveling preachers to make gobs of money, and for evangelical Christians to show their faith. As others said, they’re frequently held in August, in tents. Remember, some sects consider or considered going to just about any entertainments such as movies or concerts to be sinful, so this was a way of having a sanctioned event with some socializing. You’re right. The song was “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show;” the album it was on was called “Hot August Night” and I believe that was what his concert tour to promote the album was called as well. (One of the three times I saw him in concert.) I used to have the album, too. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/24 "2010-07-29T02:08:52Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > > [@Renee](#): > > > > Can you spoiler the answer, please? I’m dying to know. I voted for the block party thing. > > Check your Private Messages. Anyone else want to know, let me know I will PM you. or you can wait until I post the spoiler this weekend. If it’s in a spoiler box, why do you need to wait to post it? People can choose to read it or not read it. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/25 "2010-07-29T02:13:16Z")
Hel_lo_, people. This many posts and nobody got it? Fluiddruid’s Birthday Eve, ya’ll! I’m the moderator so nice, you celebrate my fucking. birthday. **twice**. or else You can send my gifts to the Chicago Reader. No flowers or musical tributes this year, please - keep it to cash, credit cards, stock, and precious metals. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/26 "2010-07-29T03:06:37Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > > [@notfrommensa](#): > > > > > [@Renee](#): > > > > > > Can you spoiler the answer, please? I’m dying to know. I voted for the block party thing. > > > > Check your Private Messages. Anyone else want to know, let me know I will PM you. or you can wait until I post the spoiler this weekend. > > If it’s in a spoiler box, why do you need to wait to post it? People can choose to read it or not read it. Because some of us Dopers have poor impulse control? I don’t know what it is, but I’ve never seen a spoiler tag and successfully avoided it, even when I wanted to be surprised. I’m not that way with everything else, but something about spoilers–whether you have to click them or highlight them–is too hard to resist. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/27 "2010-07-29T04:03:53Z")
> [@Cinebar](#): > > …You’re right. The song was “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show;” the album it was on was called “Hot August Night” and I believe that was what his concert tour to promote the album was called as well. (One of the three times I saw him in concert.) I used to have the album, too. God help me, I still do. My parents played it over and over and over again when I was growing up, and those songs got so lodged in my cerebral cortex that I just had to get a copy of the album for myself when I struck out on my own. Which explains a lot about me, I guess… ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/28 "2010-07-29T04:14:00Z")
I have control over BigT! Muahahahaha! Here’s another one! You can’t resist! I can make you do this all day! I am drunk - drunk with POWER, I tell you! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/29 "2010-07-29T04:46:35Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > Hel_lo_, people. This many posts and nobody got it? Fluiddruid’s Birthday Eve, ya’ll! I’m the moderator so nice, you celebrate my fucking. birthday. **twice**. or else > > You can send my gifts to the Chicago Reader. No flowers or musical tributes this year, please - keep it to cash, credit cards, stock, and precious metals. What, we get birthday presents from the members? Nobody’s told me about this yet, but it sounds quite delightful. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/30 "2010-07-29T08:02:05Z")
Definitely the wedding day. Also that’s the only poll option that wasn’t mentioned in the other thread. I hope bright orange and blue aren’t her wedding colours. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/31 "2010-07-29T09:57:11Z")
India’s independence day. The orange colour practically gives the answer away. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/32 "2010-07-29T10:37:01Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > > [@fluiddruid](#): > > > > Hel_lo_, people. This many posts and nobody got it? Fluiddruid’s Birthday Eve, ya’ll! I’m the moderator so nice, you celebrate my fucking. birthday. **twice**. or else > > > > You can send my gifts to the Chicago Reader. No flowers or musical tributes this year, please - keep it to cash, credit cards, stock, and precious metals. > > What, we get birthday presents from the members? Nobody’s told me about this yet, but it sounds quite delightful. 😃 Um…well, let’s say that some of our members are very creative. You read **Mangetout’s** post on how he couldn’t finish that durian cake? He’s saving the rest of it for the next mod birthday. Those white elephant/shot glass swaps…well, many times the recipients are Not Pleased with what they got. So they pass them on to US. Where did you think we got that goat? (And it was already trained to do THAT when we first got it.) “Delightful” is not the word that I’d use. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/33 "2010-07-29T12:16:20Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > > [@Renee](#): > > > > Can you spoiler the answer, please? I’m dying to know. I voted for the block party thing. > > Check your Private Messages. Anyone else want to know, let me know I will PM you. or you can wait until I post the spoiler this weekend. i wanna know. i guessed yard sale. . . . err garage sale. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/34 "2010-07-29T12:42:37Z")
PM me please! ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/35 "2010-07-29T12:50:12Z")
Is the answer actually among those in the poll? I don’t think I’m falling for any of them. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/36 "2010-07-29T12:52:29Z")
PM me please! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/37 "2010-07-29T12:58:07Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > Hel_lo_, people. This many posts and nobody got it? Fluiddruid’s Birthday Eve, ya’ll! I’m the moderator so nice, you celebrate my fucking. birthday. **twice**. or else Why, congratulations! That means your birthday is a national holiday in Spain this year 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/38 "2010-07-29T13:12:05Z")
I wanna know as well! ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/39 "2010-07-29T13:21:06Z")
Ok. For those who can’t wait for the spoiler on the weekend, **I’LL** tell you all what that great big orange sign is letting everybody know. It’s **Procrustus** ’ wedding AND my birthday. (Nobody cares about ‘birthday eves’ **fluiddruid** …so stop trying to muscle in on my action.) ---
**Author:** ![Cinebar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Cinebar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinebar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384/40 "2010-07-29T13:33:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Cinebar](#): > > > > …You’re right. The song was “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show;” the album it was on was called “Hot August Night” and I believe that was what his concert tour to promote the album was called as well. (One of the three times I saw him in concert.) I used to have the album, too. > > God help me, I still do. My parents played it over and over and over again when I was growing up, and those songs got so lodged in my cerebral cortex that I just had to get a copy of the album for myself when I struck out on my own. Which explains a lot about me, I guess… I was a _huge_ Neil Diamond fan. He really did some good stuff (the later stuff was kind of cheesy) - “Sweet Caroline,” “Solitary Man,” “Brooklyn Roads”…and “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show.” I even named my second son - Neil (no, his middle name is not Diamond). 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-my-neighbor-have-an-orange-sign-with-8-15-10/548384.md?page=3)