-------------------- Richard Bustamante Signs in the Pines www.signsinthepines.com Posts: 781 | From: Nevada City, California | Registered: Nov 1998
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You've been to your first meet. Learned lots of new stuff, and have sooo many vinyl jobs already lined up, that ya can't practice what ya just learned (%$#^&*#@$^)!!
Signed: Frustrated
-------------------- Mark Neurohr "Ernest" Paintin' Place 141 Sunnyside Road Kittanning, PA 16201
Reminds me of when I was growing up and my father's studio was in the back of our house. I remember people coming over, taking a sniff of the paint smell and saying - how do you live with that smell? All I could think was - what smell? Probably explains a lot!
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3723 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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You might be a letterhead if... you,ve always secretly wanted to put a flame job on your lawnmower..... you go camping for a week, and decide to take some brushes along "just in case"..... your wife wants to know how her good dish towel got in your paint rag bin.... you ever wondered what kind of paint they use in Singapore.....
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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You always 'eyeball' all your measurments first just to see how 'good' you are.
You never take the time to change out of your new jeans when painting~ (thinking you won't spill) therefore you never have any jeans without paint on them.
When your sandals get paint splattered on them you just spray paint them black to try to make them look good again.
You check out the lettering on the vehicle before you check out the dude who is driving. (this is soooooo bad!)
Posts: 3729 | From: Seattle | Registered: Sep 1999
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You know you're a Letterhead when: you use vinyl screening ink to paint a new vinyl top on you car.
You know you're a Letterhead when: you can mix paint better than the guy at Home Depot.
You know you're a Letterhead when: you notice the "A" needs to be kerned into the "R".
You know you're a Letterhead when: you find the silkscreen elmulsion in the refrigerator.
You've maight have guessed this post is along the theme of Jeff Foxworthy's "You know your a redneck when..." I find by your responses that the overwelming similarities is what keeps us coming to this site. Family; so to say.
Mike>>> Thank you. I would very much like to see "Mark Fair's "Sign of the Month"" again. I always looked foward to them. To see what others have created is welcomed, and feeds the imagination.
Kimberly>>> The snipits of family life with Dad is refreshing. Thank you for sharing.
Richard
-------------------- Richard Bustamante Signs in the Pines www.signsinthepines.com Posts: 781 | From: Nevada City, California | Registered: Nov 1998
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... while your house is burning down you're checking the edges of the flames to see if they really ARE purple...
... you grill the guy at the paint store about the MEK content of their spraipaint...
... you plan your summer around opportunities to travel to out of the way towns in economically depressed areas just so you can paint signs at a Meet...
... you try to rub out the bubbles on a badly applied graphic, on a truck you're walking past...
... you shoot some bullet holes in your door panel just so you can try to match them with the airbrush...
... you're proud that you have friends who are pinheads...
... your refrigerator has more stripes and flames than a dragster...
... you take the kids to the doctor and ask to keep the tongue depressors...
... you can see the difference between 1-Shot Bulletin black and Chromatic black...
... you can tell the difference between Fire Red and Vermillion... by taste...
... you only clear the dishes from the sink when you have brushes to wash out, and you only vacuum the floors when you have a banner to lay out.
-------------------- :: Scooter Marriner :: :: Coyote Signs :: :: Oakland, CA :: :: still a beginner :: :: Posts: 1356 | From: Oakland (and San Francisco) | Registered: Mar 2001
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Most of your conversations start with "you know what's wrong with that sign?"
When someone mentions a different state, town, country from yours you immediately think of which letterhead lives there.
All of the clothes you own fall into 1 of 2 categories. Painted and Not-yet-painted.
In any given month, you spend more in the tools aisle at Lowes than you do on groceries and utilities combined.
You haven't seen a newspaper in weeks, but a new sign magazine comes in the mail and stand at the mailbox reading it.
You yell at your husband for driving too fast.. cause you want to study the signs.
You can't find a pen to take a phone message but there are 7 stabilos in your dining room.
You don't know the name of the restaurant you had supper in during vacation, but you know it's the one "with the nice carved and gilded sign that needed a little more burgundy to tie it to the building better".
This website is your homepage.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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You go into the bank to cash a clients check and find you have every color under the rainbow of pencil/crayon/stabilo in your pocket but no pen to endorse the check,...I just tellem they let me use my crayons today,but won't allow me to use pens,....
-------------------- 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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...Your phone messages are writen with a quill.
...Every time you put your glasses on you knock a pencil off your ear. Or two.
...You back into the street to take a picture of a sign and cause a traffic problem.
...You get a ransom note in the mail, and correct the spelling.
...You back up to admire your work and fall off the catwalk.
...At your 40 year high school reunion you meet a guy that you don't remember 'til he says "I had a lowered car with 'Miassam Dragon' painted on the side." Then you go "Oh, sure! Richard - Condensed Roman on the green '53 Merc! Hi."
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My whole childhood, my father drove me NUTS when we were on vacation because all he wanted to do was take pictures of signs. I thought my mother and I were going to kill him when we went to DisneyWorld.
Well...this summer, my husband and my daughter and I went to this old ghosttown up in the Sierra's here in CA and what am I doing? Walking around taking pictures of all the old signs to post here and show you guys. I looked at my husband and said "Oh ****! I've turned into my father!"
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3723 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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You know you're a letterhead when you simply can't get bored with what you do.
When every person who walks in and wants to be remembered just has to mention what the job was and then the memory is instantaneous, no matter how many years ago it was.
When you are aware that your shop eats exacto knives and they could be lurking anywhere, so you never reach into anything in the dark.
You know you're a letterhead when you can truthfully say - yes! - to just about everything you're reading here, identify, and not find it in the least astonishing, while you take a slug of coffee that has an oily ring in it, again.
You know you're a letterhead when this thread in a "sweet and sour way" provides guffaws, belly laughs, shaking of the head and almost tears, and you know you are understood and not alone.
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
signslimited@triad.rr.com Posts: 1244 | From: Winston-Salem, NC USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Your friends don't tell you "You have gold in your hair..." they just smile when they see it. They know.
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....when you fart, it sounds like vowel sounds. aaaaaaeeeeeeiiiiiioooouuuuu......
-------------------- Maker of fine signs and other creative stuff. Located at 109 N. Cumberland ave. Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-837-0242 Posts: 4172 | From: Ages-Brookside, Ky. Up the Holler... | Registered: Jul 1999
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You know your a Sign geezer, when your last grenade has the name of two or three nasty looking underdeveloped A-Boards (from a car lot, furniture store and a spa outlet ) and you've lettered the grenade in a distasteful Old English just for spite.
You remember those buttheads who wanted their signs done in "Old English" don't you?
-------------------- Wilson Ardmore Sun Signs 164 Team Track Rd. Auburn, Ca hatfield@vfr.net Posts: 100 | From: Bowman,Ca | Registered: Aug 2002
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You know you are a letterhead when the rear window of the canopy on your truck says "When signs are outlawed...only outlaws will have signs"
you know you are a letterhead when your wife doesn't understand why you can talk all day aout signs...and not be able to carry on a simple conversation with her.
you know you are a letterhead when you have more paint on you than the sign.
-------------------- Jackson Smart Jackson's Signs Port Angeles, WA ...."The Straits of Juan De Fuca in my front yard and Olympic National Park in my backyard...
"Living on Earth is expensive...but it does include a free trip around the Sun" Posts: 1002 | From: Port Angeles, Washington | Registered: Jan 1999
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When you smash your car into another car while looking at someone elses sign!!
-------------------- 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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...when you drop into a signshop and "wonder if anything needs lettering...(please!!!)" I've got my brushes right here"
John Lennig
-------------------- 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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When people come over your place and see soup, tomato sauce, or coffee cans in your dish washing drying rack.
when you cut off the top and add some sand of your empty 24 oz can of Bud for storing brushes.
when anyone new comes over and sees Jalapenos painted on your fridge and thinks this guy is crazy to paint a new fridge like that, till you show them it was painted on magnetic material and cut out.
Or when you run around over 1,400 miles in Northern California with a guy name Richard Bustamante painting signs for a storage co and find out in one of them you have to spend the nights in an RV with phone access after 10 pm to connect to mIRC with Letterheads and talk about the latest gossip, or working on a building roof in San Francisco, with the roof unleveled so you have to pull parts of left over roofing material to make the ladders level, to work on ladder jacks.
My favorite Letterhead Classic was working with P-King in Birmingham, AL. 100 feet in the air on a boom lift. The project was painting four sides of a huge tower, it was almost done when the boom starts to break apart and you realize you have "no safety harness on" Yikes!
Or meeting a chick like Cheryl and find out she's just as crazy as I am. But cool as a motor pool. She's a Dynamite lady in my books. Among the others like Nettie, Jackie B, the Moon, Kelli. Damn, I feel bad because I don't want to forget all the fellows also, you all know who you are. You are also great dudes weather I was on the road or in the air. If I went to your place then I'm talking about you!
But for the latest of "when you know your a Letterhead" in my case, check out this...
you know when your a Letterhead when you rather read the BB then watch TV. Thanks Steve and Barb, you too Richard for your post.
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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When you fantasize about the ultimate sign shop every time you pass by garages, old body shops, barns in the country.... or sniff sniff.... wicked cool old fire houses with ya know...... one of those brass poles in the back corner..... a ladder truck converted to a sign instalation rapid response unit #one..... and a dalmation named One Shot!..... a kitchen and sleeping quarters.... perfectly smooth epoxy coated floors just waiting for paint splatters..... oooohhhh...... maannnn!
-------------------- "No excuses!.... No regrets!..."
Your steering wheel always has some color paint on it.
You carry a bottle of baby oil in your truck to remove paint from your hands, and to soak your paint brushes til you can properly clean them.
Your 'tools' are your pride and joy. And eventhough I am a 'chick' thanks Cisco! I have just as many tools as the guys. so there.
How about when the contractor who is making your carport into a garage runs out of 1/2" plywood and you run around to the back and whip out lots of MDO sign scraps. He insists this won't look right...you think it will be COOL having old coldwell commercial signs for your shop wall.
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