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#1 2004-04-28 08:53:44
- Palomar
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Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
*For me, it'd have to be the peach/pink colored billboard along a main road in Albuquerque, NM for a rock and roll radio station.
It sported the likeness of Mick Jagger with a milk moustache, and this caption beneath: "Got Mick?"
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A takeoff, of course, on the milk industry's popular "Got Milk?" campaign with celebs and etc "wearing" milk moustaches.
I'm sure Mick'd be flattered. :-\
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#2 2004-04-28 11:23:34
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Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
One with Macheal jakson that says bring your childern to never neverland where they will have fun!
Larry brid given the brid to ever one that drove by.
Go on sin we dont care, we dont want you in heaven any ways. church of apathy.
Las vegas NM where every one goes when they dont want to have a great time. las vegas NV chamber of commerce
I love plants!
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#3 2004-04-28 11:31:05
- Mark Friedenbach
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Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
Free — Free
A Trip
To Mars
For 900
Empty Jars
Burma-Shave
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#4 2004-04-28 11:39:11
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Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
Free — Free
A Trip
To Mars
For 900
Empty Jars
Burma-Shave
*Lol! That's a great anecdote (Mr. Arliss French), in the article. 
"Send Frenchy to Mars!" :laugh:
--When French presented himself at Burma-Shave's head office, he was dressed for his trip — he arrived sporting a bubble on his head and clad in a silvery space suit with a big red owl on the front. His 900 jars arrived in a Brink's armored truck emblazoned with a "Send Frenchy To Mars!" sign.--
I have never heard of this story before, thanks for sharing it.
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#5 2004-04-28 12:50:51
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Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
Great story... Beginning of the roadside-adverts... Modern history, gives you a real feeling of the times, then.
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#6 2004-04-28 23:20:52
Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
My favorite bumper sticker I saw on a car parked at a coal mine in Pennsylvania:
Environmentalists: Let the bastards freeze in the dark.
I don't agree with the sentiment, but was not surprised to see it on a coal miner's car!
-- RobS
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#7 2004-04-28 23:48:47
- GraemeSkinner
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Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
This one was in my inbox a couple of days ago...
Sign on the grounds of a private school:
NO TRESPASSING WITHOUT PERMISSION.
Graeme
There was a young lady named Bright.
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
in a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
--Arthur Buller--
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#8 2004-04-29 00:15:42
- Mark Friedenbach
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Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
Yeah, I got sent that link in the mail a while back, thought everyone here would enjoy it. Wish I had a couple of those signs for the wall of my room...
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#9 2004-05-04 10:26:01
- SBird
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Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
Personally, I'm partial to the old 'will the last person leaving please turn off the lights' sign we had in Seattle back in the late 70's.
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#10 2004-05-04 23:14:36
- Alt2War
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Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
On the side of a storage facility:
A picture of a mounted moose head with the caption
"My new girlfriend is a member of PETA"
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#11 2004-05-05 08:11:39
- Shaun Barrett
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Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
I once saw a stand-up comedy routine by old comic stalwart Red Skelton. He said he and his wife were lost out in the middle of nowhere in Texas (I don't know if it was a true story or not).
With nothing in any direction except the road they were on and the flat horizon all around, they encountered a series of billboards as they drove along. As near as I can remember, the first one said 'Gas Station and Diner Ahead'. The second said 'Don't ask for Directions'. The third said 'If we knew anything, we wouldn't be here.'
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Yeah, well, maybe it was just the way he told it. But it tickled me, anyhow.
The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping Up and Down. - Rita Rudner
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#12 2004-05-05 09:47:26
Re: Goofiest Roadside Billboard - ...you've ever seen
If you ever head down to South Padre Island, Texas, you’ll see a sign that says something like this;
Last gas station and restroom stop for 50 miles. (Or is it 90 miles?)
It is right before you enter the King Ranch.
West Texas is not much better when it comes to rest stops.
"Run for it? Running's not a plan! Running's what you do, once a plan fails!" -Earl Bassett
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