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If you break wind and the term "outgassing" comes to mind...You might be a Letterhead!
If people refer to you as a "colorful" based on the amount of paint on your wardrobe...You might be a Letterhead!
If there's more paint on the floor of your shop than on the outside of it...You might be a Letterhead!
If you enjoy the smell of mineral spirits more than the smell of steak on a barbecue...You might be a Letterhead!
If your trash barrel looks like someone ate a bag of jellybeans and hurled in it...You might be a Letterhead!
If you use your airbrush as a hair dryer...You might be a Letterhead!
If you've never known that the word "weeding" also refered to gardening...You need to get out more often!
If you think being referred to as a "One Shot Wonder" is an honor...You might be a Letterhead!
If you go to a wedding and spend time thinking of how different colored letters would have made the cake look better...You might be a Letterhead!
If there's ten different colors under your fingernails, and it inspires 4 good color schemes you can use on your next design proposal...You might be a Letterhead!
If leaving fingerprints upsets you more than having them taken...You might be a Letterhead!
Apologies to Jeff Foxworthy...but I'm feeling a little "saucy" today... Rapid
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
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If when out and about...you have to feel signs to see if they're vynull...YMBAL If you come back from a meet with paint on your boobs...YMBAL If your Caller ID roster lists only outta state sign shops...YMBAL If you schedule surgery around meets...YMBAL If every pair of shoes you own (including high heels) has paint specks on em...YMBAL When in town, someone hollers "HEY SIGN LADY!"...YMBAL When in traffic, you see vehicles you lettered and their drivers honk & wave at you...YMBAL If your mom drives her golden girlfriends down the main highway pointing out your signs...YMBAL If you get 5 IM Pop-Ups every time ya log onto Letterville, and you like em...YMBAL Well that's it fer me Rabid...my creative juices have gone dry. Love Ya...JILL
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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If you are IN the hospital and you keep asking the nurses "Where can I hook up?" looking for a modem line -YMBAL
If your 14 year old daughter is called "Mini Moon", because it's YOUR online Nickname -YMBAL
If that same 14 year old daughter bugs you monthly/weekly/or daily for info on the Next Meet- YMBAL
If she also prefers hanging out with Si than YOU- YMBAL We all love ya Si!
If you have pictures of old men feeding her Gold Leaf in an "Old Chicken Barn" -YMBAL
If your guest room was created FOR Steve & Barb- YMBAL
The IAAL (I am a Letterhead) side of the Moon
-------------------- The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day! stefenie@comcast.net Posts: 550 | From: Pollock Pines, CA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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If you crash your car into another car looking back at a sign....YMBAL
-------------------- Drane Signs Sunshine Coast Nambour, Qld. dranesigns@bigpond.com Downunder "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer" Posts: 965 | From: Nambour, Qld. Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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If you once lived in a mobile home and replaced damaged siding on the back of it with signs you took down from a jobsite, and left it that way 'cuz it looked cool,
you might be a REDNECK letterhead!!!
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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People stop and ask for directions, and all the landmarks you tell them to follow .. are signs... YMBAL
The top of your ear is preserved with brush oil.. YMBAL
You can differentiate brands of vinyl by odour alone...YMBAL
what smell?....YMBAL
You know what RT is....YMBAL
When petting an animal you wonder how well their fur would work in a sable ...YMBAL
A good lay out is not a sexual reference...YMBAL
Jill, paint on your boobs?
-------------------- "Are we having fun yet?" Peter Schuttinga DZines Sign Studio 1617 Millstream rd Victoria BC V9B-6G4 Posts: 521 | From: Victoria BC | Registered: Mar 2002
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It was just a blotch of Kansas City Teal.... Was wearing my silk zebra skin PJ's at the Jam and was a bit floppier than usual, bent over the paint table & bumped into an open can. Took a week to get it off. (Kissy said "Woman! Ya don't wear a BRA with your Jammies!" so I had removed it.) Love...Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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If you cruise chicks here, you might be a Letterhead.
If one comes home with you, SHE must be a Letterhead.
If you marry that woman, you might a Letterhead... or just plain ol' smart.
I am still thinking of KC teal....
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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I'm blowing Pepsi out my nose laughing at these! Keep 'em going!!!
Jill, Jill, Jill... Kansas-City-Teal-Jill!
If someone says "gimme some Frog Juice" and you DON'T think of sqeezing them green babies into a blender- YMBAL
If you go in to get your nails filled (fake nails guys) and she repremands you for having paint ALL OVER your nails, and under them, and up your fingers... -YMBAL
If ALL your friends LIVE in Letterville- YMBAL
-------------------- The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day! stefenie@comcast.net Posts: 550 | From: Pollock Pines, CA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Oh yeah- and Smooth Words there Bruce. In trouble with Dana, or.... hopes of getting lucky? LOL
-------------------- The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day! stefenie@comcast.net Posts: 550 | From: Pollock Pines, CA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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... or you almost run over a couple of young gals because you're too busy checking out a sign to even notice them (with your letterhead wife in the car laughing at you) - YMBAL!!
-------------------- Dana Ferry St Cloud, MN Posts: 1556 | From: St Cloud, MN | Registered: May 1999
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If you complain that "there's to many pictures of people in this roll of film..."
you rate garages on how well they would make a "cool studio"
talk to young people...hoping to convince them that being a signperson would "help their lives!??"(that was a long time ago)
keep a running mental(?) list of "old wall signs that I GOTTA get a photo of...
count the sleeps 'til The Black Hills Gold Rush...
John Lennig / SignRider
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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If you spray paint your shoes before going on a sales call, YMBAL
If You use a black China marker in stead of eye liner for make up, YMBAL
If you sharpen your pencil with a snap blade knife, YMBAL
If you scrape your furnace flu to get charcoal for pounce, YMBAL
If you can't find the ONLY PENCIL in your entire shop, YMBAL
If you still use scotch tape to make straight edges for the top and bottom of letters, YMBA really old Letterhead
If you take your wife out to a nice Aniversary dinner, and your fingernails will not come clean, even after hours of scrubbing, YMBAL
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If you use PLAYBOY magazine to pallet your brush on, painting swimsuits on the nude pictures, YMBAL! ( That was very true of old time sign painters in this area)
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One posted by a female on a similar post from ages ago...
You hear "PMS" used in general conversation and you wait to hear which number.
For me: You have to give your boots a fresh coat of black to attend a match, hatch or dispatch. You clean the BBQ plate with the angle grinder/wire brush and realise you just spattered your best T Shirt with black grunge, and it was a meet shirt. (that one really sucks) You can answer the phone & eat a sandwich while holding a paint pot, mahl stick and brush without noticing anything unusual.
A new addition!: You get pulled over by the cops for answering your mobile phone while drive and the best excuse why your passenger couldn't take the call is because he is from another country and has a really thick accent (damn shame - the cop didn't accept it, seemed reasonable to me)
David
-------------------- David Fisher D.A. & P.M. Fisher Services Brisbane Australia da_pmf@yahoo.com Trying out a new tag: "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth Peter Ustinov Posts: 1450 | From: Brisbane Queensland Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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Note to Frank Manning: 1-Shot color #157-L shall be now and forever more known as Kansas City Teat.
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If while trying to hang a "Time to Spring for a New Sign" banner on yer front porch, in your pajamas during heavy morning traffic on the 4-lane highway that runs past your house (while your pug is leaving a steaming morning offering) and the grommet breaks the bungee snaps you in the head...YMBAL
love...silly jilly
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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YMBAL ...if you drive through town in your truck and when you get home, while you are sitting in your driveway, cops pull up behind you. They found you by the trail you left through town, via the can of paint that fell open in the back of truck bed.
-------------------- The Moon aka: Stefenie Harris Moonlight Designs Pollock Pines, CA learnin' somethin' new every day! stefenie@comcast.net Posts: 550 | From: Pollock Pines, CA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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~You feel compelled to enlighten people about the size of the round letters . . . . . .
~Your child's friends come runnin' up to you "tellin'": "She said you painted that big sign downtown!!! . . . "
~You freak-out people and even yourself, with an uncanny ability of being able to tell if something is even 1/8 inch off . . . tape measures & levels break out and your always right.
~You think nothing of straightening pictures, posters, or small signs hanging in any establishment.
~Your grown, moved-out, married, kid, NOW thinks you're cool and brags about you , tho' they used to HATE bein' seen with you, 'specially in THAT truck or your work clothes. (PS: This also overlaps with ALL parents in "You might be the parent of a teen if . . ." )
~You owe panels . . . . (this is a new one I'm experiencing . . . God, how the guilt hangs on 'til it compels me to action . . . .)
-------------------- Signs Sweet Home Alabama
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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...you check the line spacing & margins before (or instead of) reading bumper stickers in traffic... not to mention seeing all the improved composition options for laying out all the stickers on a given bumper/tailgate.
...as a subconscious matter of course, bad looking signs usually don't seem to be worth reading the copy (even when the consequences are detrimental)
...business names, product descriptions, & marketing ideas automatically set in motion a flood of graphic imagry parading across the minds eye.
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If you're still readin' this stuff, you're a Letterhead, with TOO MUCH TIME, COME ON, GET BUSY!!!
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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If you've ever received a package of Tim tams or Cherry Ripes from Australia, and said shipping container was made of coroplast (or corflute in Aussie), and you sent a panel in return using the previously mentioned coroplast as packing material.. YMBAL. BTW Jon, I'm ready for more Cherry Ripes.
If you have phone conversations that start off like "Hey Kissy, it's Sticky... ".. YMBAL
If you come home from running errands and there's a message on the answering machine from a crazy New Yawkah pinstriper disguising his voice as a dolphin.. YMBAL
-------------------- "If I share all my wisdom I won't have any left for myself."
Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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you spend more time here than anywhere else on the 'net, YMBAL
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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...when you watch a beautiful sunset and immediately wonder if you have enough One Shot colors in stock to do it on a wall.
...when being referred to as a "Pinhead" or "Airhead" is a compliment.
...when you spend $50 bucks on a racing video game so you can paint the cars.
...when you reach into your pocket to pay for something in the store, you spend 10 minutes moving around your tape measure, retractable blade, squeegees, pencils and the tiny bits of application tape to access your loose change.
...you buy lottery tickets to use as clip art.
Rapid
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
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