My Okie friend wanted to name his son "Hard Wood", but his wife finally talked him into "Harrison".
We took care of a little girl years ago who had a knack for twisting words around. Two that I remember very well were "Sporic. Try it!" which she came up with for Trisporic, a topical antibiotic, and "You're not suppoed to say Cheezits!", which I think explains itself.
I don't live in Puyallup
My IP address says so and my mail says so but that is not true
i love strange signs
in north west toronto about 25 years ago i passed a small store front, the establishment supplied linens, the company name S & M Bedding, i'm guessing that english might not have been a native language
one cold night walking by Maple Leaf Gardens, we noticed a tired looking janitor leaning on a broom, near a hand written sign, that was attached to a glass door, the sign read "Out of Orders"
i lived for a while at Bloor and Bathurst, south of Bloor on Bathurst was a small law firm, Faust, Raven and Hacker, really what other job could you get with names like that
when my sister lived in Kingston i loved to drive to the small town of Bath, and see the Bath Water Filtration Plant
in the town of Leamington, the sign i loved best is no more, in a little alley between two buildings was posted a piece of sage advice "Beware of Children"
The Bath Water Filtration Plant was one of my favourite signs as a kid.
(still makes me giggle to think of it)
The production company for Car Talk with Click and Clack on NPR is called "Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe" (say it aloud), which was the old vaudeville, maybe Marx Brothers, name for the prototypical firm of shyster lawyers.
In a similar vein, there's a character in David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System named Judith Prietht--also needs to be spoken aloud for full effect.
Speaking of signs - there is one on I-5 that says "air museum"
Can you have a museum for air
This is in a C-17 aircraft
uh air & ground use only
Albuquerque's version of the NYPD.
Okay, I may be dumb but not dumb enough to go swimming with alligators. I can imagine someone swimming and seeing an alligator then yelling - stop alligator don't attack me - HELP PARK RANGER before this thing attacks me
Yeah, TTH, but maybe the sign is a warning for the alligators...
ossobuco wrote:Gypsy Boots liked roots and shoots, but gypsum flutes make terrible toots.
Eats, roots, shoots and leaves.
A wild animal or an Australian surfer?
North and West streets intersect in one of the suburbs so directions could read take West south to North and go east.
We just bought a new sideboard, which has promptly been renamed the "cyborg"
"ok, this side of the cyborg is yours, you can use all the drawer space there, this half of the cyborg is mine."
