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Moo
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The truck of a company that cleans out septic tanks had a sign on it, SHIT HAPPENS.
Moo
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tessaB
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We had a lovely one from a builders company called Patel
You've had the cowboys, now try the Indians
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eating chocolate to the glory of God
Holiday cottage near Rye
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Piglet
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There was a barber's shop near where we used to live in Belfast whose sign read:
ED'S HEADS
Distressing Locksmiths
which I thought was much cleverer than the usual hairdressers' puns like "Curl Up And Dye" (there may have been one of them in Belfast too - I'm sure I've seen it somewhere).
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Pigwidgeon
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A plumber advertised in the local newspaper where I lived many years ago: "The best place in town to take a leak."
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~Tortuf
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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my ex husband used to be in the US Army Corps of Engineers. the plumbers he worked with had the unofficial motto: "Your Shit Is Our Bread And Butter"
One Alaskan coffee roastery names it's various brews after locations in the state, among other things. Their Dead Man's Reach blend has the slogan, "Served In Bed, Wakes The Dead". Their company motto is "Alaska's Last Legal High"
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Latchkey Kid
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A dry cleaners.
If your clothes aren't becoming to you, then they should be coming to us.
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Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
my ex husband used to be in the US Army Corps of Engineers. the plumbers he worked with had the unofficial motto: "Your Shit Is Our Bread And Butter"
Our school kitchens had a similar motto. Just swap a couple of possessive pronouns around...
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St. Stephen the Stoned
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A skip hire firm in Bristol has a slogan:
All Our Efforts Go To Waste.
And there used to be a shop in Rotherham which had a sign reading:
We know your children are a joy to behold. Please be holding onto them in our store.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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My favourite whiskey shop has a notice:
Unattended children will be sold into slavery.
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Wm Dewy
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A convenience store / gas station / diner a little north of Indianapolis has a sign:
Eat here and get gas.
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Sandemaniac
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There's a scaffolding firm round here whose van reads
Make sure your next erection is in good hands
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St. Stephen the Stoned
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There was a take-away in Bristol called Gobble-and-Go. Until somebody told them...
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St. Gwladys
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Originally posted by Moo: The truck of a company that cleans out septic tanks had a sign on it, SHIT HAPPENS. Moo
A local company had lorries proclaiming "the motion is carried" and "the way to suck cess".
I also heard of a university archaeology department whose motto was "seek and destroy" and whose mascot was a mole with very large thick glasses and a pick and shovel over its shoulder. (By it's very nature, archaeology will destroy some levels of artifacts in order to uncover deeper levels, if that makes sense!)
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"Careful what you say sir, we're on board ship here"
From "New York Girls", Steeleye Span, Commoners Crown (Voiced by Peter Sellers)
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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I think the feeblest I've ever seen was painted up in a shopping arcade in Stirling 40 years ago (and probably dated from an earlier period still -
You may get it at Menzies.
Or, there again, you might not.
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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If you drink and drive, you're bloody idiot.
-accompanied by picture of an accident, put out by an auto insurance company.
Our aim is to keep this place clean, your aim would help.
-above the urinals in a men's pissoir.
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Carex
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Or,
We aim to please. You aim too, please.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Bishop's Move, better across the board (removals firm) is getting good publicity at the moment, expecially as they were the firm asked to move Justin Welby to his new home.
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Jigsaw
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A dry-cleaning shop (now closed) on Green Street near West Ham United's football ground had a sign "Don't Kill Your Wife - Let Us Do It".
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Gee D
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At a building site near the local shops - Viagra Scaffolding.
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cliffdweller
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While in Salt Lake City visiting our LDS kids, we visited a local brewery to sample Polygamy Porter, which bears the slogan, "why have just one?"
[ 02. February 2013, 01:27: Message edited by: cliffdweller ]
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Mamacita
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I saw a guy wearing a t-shirt advertising Maccabee Beer, brewed in Israel, and bearing the slogan "The Beer the Chosen People Choose."
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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This is more serious than the other posts on this thread.
After the Virginia Tech shootings, Nikki Giovanni wrote a poem which repeated the line, "We will prevail". Those words immediately appeared on signs all over town. At the same time, our church was plastered with signs saying, "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it".
I had never before experienced slogans as helpful, but these two were invaluable to me. It was good to have these in my mind while I handled life by putting one foot in front of the other.
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Huia
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Local Real Estate parnership - "He sells, she sells, by the sea-shore.
Huia
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Piglet
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Huia, that's brilliant. ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
The estate agent who sold us our house is in partnership with her husband, and their slogan is "Spouses who sell houses" - quite good, but not really in the same league.
![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
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Originally posted by Carex:
Or,
We aim to please. You aim too, please.
I've also seen the sign,
"If you sprinkle
when you tinkle,
be a sweetie -
wipe the seatie."
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ChaliceGirl
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Not a slogan really, but a local proctologist has the web address fannydoctor.com
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"Welcome home." ++Katharine Jefferts Schori to me on 29Mar2009.
My KJS fansite & chicksinpointyhats
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Antisocial Alto
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Originally posted by cliffdweller:
While in Salt Lake City visiting our LDS kids, we visited a local brewery to sample Polygamy Porter, which bears the slogan, "why have just one?"
Oh yes - we visited Utah about 10 years ago and Polygamy Porter had the slogan "Take a few home for the wives" at that time :-)
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Chorister
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Seen yesterday on a maintenance van: 'We repair what your husband fixed'.
Bet most of their customers are women....
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Huia
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I just caught sight of a national builing contractor's slogan "Mainzeal -building certainty" in a local paper dated the same day as the company went into liquidation.
Some slogans aren't worth the paper they're wriiten on.
Huia
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Chorister
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On holiday in Cornwall, I saw a flooring specialist van painted with the rather excruciating slogan:
'Luke Floorwalker - May the Floors be with you'.
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Aravis
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Welsh National Opera's slogan used to be "Refreshes the ears other arts cannot reach"
(strictly for those who remember the old Heineken ads)
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Piglet
Islander
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Or, to quote from Graffiti by Nigel Rees:
quote:
Hook Norton refreshes the parts Heineken daren't mention.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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