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I thought it might be interesting to see what kind of funny signs or other stuff you have in your shops.
Some funnies in shops I have worked in were:
Signs; "We may be Slow, but our work is Poor". "We are not responsible". On the easel in the shop....."Work Fast, lately your Work has been Half Fast". "If you're going to wait for it, bring your own cot".
-------------------- Rove Gratz Gratz Signs 342 Walden Station Drive Macon, GA 31216 rovegratz@aol.com Home Page: http://rove-342.tripod.com Posts: 861 | From: Macon, GA 31216 | Registered: Jan 2004
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Well...my shop is in my uncle's auto repair shop - he is a hunter and on the walls are deer heads, a boar head, fish skeletons, etc... I'm surprised it doesn't scare people off!!!!!!!!
-------------------- signs Posts: 535 | From: pa | Registered: Dec 1998
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. . .I have several things, including the original 'printing practice sheet' someone gave me years ago which became my personal motto shown below in my signature.
Here's a coupl'a others . . . .
(I saw this one in the office of one of my general contractor clients who does very high-end work, so it was that much funnier, and just had to have a copy. It has a cute cartoon on it . . .)
We do 3 types of jobs here: GOOD...FAST... & CHEAP You may choose any two . . .
~If it's good & cheap, it will not be fast
~If it's good & fast, it will not be cheap
~If it's cheap and fast, it will not be good
Probably my favorite:
We the willing led by the unknowing, and doing the impossible for the ungrateful, have done so much for so long with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
-------------------- 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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I guess you could say my Shop Hours sign is kinda funny.
SHOP HOURS
Most times im here, sometimes i'm not Please bear with me, It's a one man shop. If i'm not here, and you're in a fix. Please try my cell phone 724 813 2206.
-------------------- Ryan Ursta Ursta Graphics 116 B North Mercer Avenue Sharpsville Pa. 16150 Call: 724•962•2206 "We make YOU look good"
Known as "Ugraph" on mirc Posts: 558 | From: Sharpsville Pa. USA | Registered: Sep 2000
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Pssshhht.... *I'm* the "funniest" thing in my "shop"! and I will not be outdone by anything hanging on the walls.
Well, I do have a piece of paper stuck to the wall with a stickerpimp.com t-shirt concept design on it. It reads "I bought a bitchin' stickerpimp.com graphics kit but I NEVER asked for this ugly t-shirt!"
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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All these are up on our walls... "Would you like to speak to the man in charge or the woman who knows what's going on?" (MY personal favorite. )
"I've come before you to stand behind you to tell you everything I know nothing about." (Bill's favorite)
"Excellence is an attitude that says good can be much better."
"Perseverence- The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength, not lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
"There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. - Will Rogers"
and one I embroidered by hand years ago..."Plan ahead...it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark."
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Let's see... there's the deer head named Bill wearing a ski mask... a 1970's French racing bicycle... a mannequin smoking a cigarette... a couple dozen Letterhead meet panels, old signs, posters, etc....a vaguely van Gogh-ish looking portrait made from metal shavings...
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Above my computer desk: "Warning...High Stress Area"
Sign sample in my showroom: "Rick Havick's...movers" with a Viking standing on a beach with his ship in the background. (get it...wreak havoc?)
Also designed for the showroom: "Sam 'n' Patty's Fishouse restaurant"
Beside the sales counter: "WANTED...Deadbeat Jack...$1000 reward (with an outlaw's mug and a list of our payment policies)
Also by the sales counter: "no fowl language" with a graphic of a cockeyed rooster...cussin'.
Closed sign on my door says "Danger...ARGON...be back later"
Just finished a design for a 4x8. It just says "T-Shirts" but has a big 'ol goofy looking chimpanzee sitting in top wearing some cool looking sunglasses and ..what else..a t-shirt. It will go on the highway next to the shop.
I'd like to see some more ideas.
-------------------- Wayne Webb Webb Signworks Chipley, FL 850.638.9329 wayne@webbsignworks.com Posts: 7403 | From: Chipley,Florida,United States | Registered: Oct 1999
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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When I go down to the track they have a warehouse type area I set up a shop in twice a year,..nuthin fancy ,...a wall easel and just a stack of new racing slicks with old racing sponsor signs for a 16' table top for my laptop and plotter/premask/weeding table,.......
Then there is this working jet engine,......with the cover painted like a soda can,....track dryer,.....every time somebody asks I tell them it is for keeping the floor clean and heating the shop,........
-------------------- fly low...timi/NC is, Tim Barrow Barrow Art Signs Winston-Salem,NC Posts: 2224 | From: Winston-Salem,NC,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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i had a sign in my shop, still have it...after all the "ball busters" lookin for bargin prices i made this sign.....and the one who had to ask "whats them big words mean?" i would just ignore!! as it reads: THIS IS NOT A FLEA MARKET! _______________________________________________ I AM HERE TO MAKE MONEY TO SUPPORT MY HEDONISTIC & OPULENT LIFESTYLE......THE PRICE I QUOTE, IS THE PRICE I WANT FOR THE WORK REQUESTED. _______________________________________________ THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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1: (posted outside) If you are not a friend, family, or client, why are you here? (for solicitors/lobbyists etc.) 2: Haggling will not be tolerated! 3: Persons taking longer than 30 minutes for discussion will be charged a consultation fee. (this after an old lady took 2 hours to talk about a mailbox and never ordered anything!) I also have leopard-skin wallpaper & rugs, black sheer lingerie curtains, a velvet Elvis, a Bettie Page pin-up, Canadian, British, and Scottish flags, a HUGEpanel collection and also an obnoxious parrot and a smelly pug.
-------------------- 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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above the shop clock there's a bumper sticker that says "S**T Happens, ask a screenprinter" and the "T" is upsidedown ... which makes no sense to me, I mean how could printing screw up the T ..oh well
In my office right above my monitor I have a Bob Timmerman panel "Wasted Time Enterprises". On my monitor is a pin that says "It's not my job sh**head". The one in my office that usually grabs peoples attention is my "LenapNikuFecin" panel (I made 2),always a big smile when I tell them to read it backwards.
The lockers in the back of the shop where the other guys put their jackets and stuff are covered in all kinds of weird pictures clipped from papers, magazines. A while back we had a few pigs made out of weeded away vinyl hanging around ... but they were more creepy than funny.
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Now I just need some purple crushed velvet for the walls and white leopard shag carpet, gold plated furniture maybe some golden curtains and I'd really deserve the "pimp" name...
-------------------- "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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I have one of those leg-hold animal traps open and mounted on a piece of board with the center circle painted red, and underneath it it says, "for the complaint department, please push red button."
-------------------- Kristie Byrnes Paintbrush Graphics 6126 Big Cut Rd. Mt. Carroll, IL 61053 rugbyrnes@hotmail.com (563) 357-7614 Posts: 90 | From: Thomson,IL | Registered: Dec 2002
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I have a cartoon of a manic looking disheveled guy that my daughter colored haphazardly when she was four. The caption reads: "I woke up with one nerve, and now you're getting on it". It's been in the same spot for twelve years!
-------------------- Tim Whitcher Adrian, MI Posts: 1546 | From: Adrian, MI | Registered: Mar 1999
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Mine reads " You don't have to go home, but, you can't stay here" !!!
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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The other day one of our smoke detectors started doing that every two minute chirp they do when the battery gets low. I have several of these scattered around the shop, not mounted to walls in visible places. Well Roy, a senior employee, looks up in the direction of the sound and I approach it from another direction. We're trying to find this device, but can't just stand there waiting for the next chirp. This goes on for maybe ten minutes, until I find it while Roy is in the can. I wrap it in a rag and hide it on the table by the sign Roy is working on. Soon he's back in position and this thing starts its song. Roy looks abruptly toward the ceiling. Soon this repaets. Again and again, with Roy looking around trying to find it. When he goes to work on another project in the wood shop, I sneak it in there. Musta been half an hour till he came out with a childish grin and the smoke detector in hand.
-------------------- The SignShop Mendocino, California
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6713 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3484 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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Years ago I did a sign which read " Russell Roberts - Blacksmith" and beneath it in small print I put " Teeth pulled, reputations straightened & spoons bent for failed psychics"
It was pretty popular!
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