Klarinet Archive - Posting 000275.txt from 2000/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Apostrophe
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:56:50 -0500

At 10:30 AM 12/5/2000 EST, LeliaLoban wrote:
>My favorite aspostrophical whimsy appeared on a sign taped to a sand-filled
>pedestal ashtray in the hallway of an apartment building in Oakland,
>California, USA. Kevin and I lived there in 1969, the year before we
>married. We didn't exactly live in the high rent district. We lived in the
>district where, on the way into the walkup building, one stepped over the
>sleeping drunk curled up on the stair landing. Anyhow, the sign said,
>
>THIS. IS. A. ASH. TRAY.
>FOR. CIG. BUT'S.
>NOT. FOR. GAR. BAG'S.
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
Classic! Apparently they hired the drunk on the landing to write the sign.
I just noticed today as I was passing a bar in a town on my route that
they had a new, professionally painted sign hanging on the front of the
building. On one edge, written vertically, it proclaimed:

F
R
I
D
A
Y

F
I
S
H

F
R
Y
'
S

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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