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It's a shame when a man creates a nice sign, shows you how he did it, and still can't even enter it in the SOTM. Maybe if we can get enough people to vote for it we can FORCE Mr. Fair to award himself the first SOTM of 2002.
Your vote counts (unless maybe if your in Florida ... haha)
(vote 1) - yay
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Straddling the GA/FL line. . .. we say YEPPERS !!!
-------------------- John Smith Kings Bay Signs (Retired) Kissimmee, Florida Posts: 817 | From: Central Florida - The Sunshine State | Registered: Jan 2000
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Oh, this is a hard one.. YEP! Dats a pretty sign, Mark.. and you more than qualify, with all of the stuff I have seen that you've done.. Give it to yourself this time. You deserve it
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Without a doubt...this one deserves that award. Sorry, Katie & Sally, but this one time, your usual impeccable judgement has to be overruled.
-------------------- Ken Henry Henry & Henry Signs London, Ontario Canada (519) 439-1881 e-mail: kjmlhenry@rogers.com
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Huh? It's impeccable this time. It's great. I voted yes!!! He greatly deserves it, he does brilliant work.. and If I'm allowed to vote, I'm going with the rest. He should get SOTM.
Ken: I think you may have misread
Love Katie!
PS, keep up the good work MARK!!! When I visit you, I want you to teach me all dat wonderful stuff you do, ok?
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Ok, so I'm not old enough to vote.. that's beside the point. So far, it is unanamous anyway.
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2 more votes from our house! We all win here. In addition to seeing a well designed sign, we've learned the how and why of it's creation. It don't get much better than that. Thanks for all you do for Letterville Mark.
-------------------- Steve Shortreed 144 Hill St., E. Fergus, Ontario Canada N1M 1G9 519-787-2673
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hey, thanks folks for the honor!!! (but it ain't gonna work.) heeheeheehee
one rule i set for myself back when i started SOTM in 1996 was that i would never award myself this award, but you guys have just given me an idea!
how about this... each month a different Letterhead (whom i will select)will decide SOTM(send entry photos to me and in turn i will send 3 photos to that month's "judge". the judge selects one, then i will notify the winner by mail asking for more details on the design and production.(the photos i send to the judge will have no name attached to it so the said judge will be impartial and vote for the one that has the most "eye appeal"
what do you think? if you would like to be a judge, e-mail me and let me know.
hey thanks mark matyjakowski, after seeing your work and others who have posted above, i find your compliments very flattering.
and katie, your vote counts too, because you are a letterhead!
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Mark, ya get my vote too I appreciate your talent & letterhead spirit, but you just happen to have excellent taste in music too...I call that a well rounded guy
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Well I was going to say yes to another vote for Mark, but looks like he answered. Anyhow I think it is a Dynamite sign! As far as the idea about selecting another judge, I think that would be great!
-------------------- 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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I'm voting for Mark's sign no matter what the 'rules' are. Besides, I know too many people from Letterville that aren't usually that concerned with rules and laws and all that nonsense.
And, I think we should let the Floridians vote, just don't let them count the votes.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa
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As usual I was listening to you WISE MASTER BUBBA. And now I'm confused. A coup is a coup no matter how you slice it.
I vote for the fearless and awesome Mark Fair for January 2002.
-Your faithful pupil.
-dan
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It would with me CJ. Enemas! Whewwww.... Look at it this way Mark. You aint putting yourself in as sign of the month. We are. No better deserving work of signage than that which you did for the step by step. Great work by a great person. Consider yourself bestowed upon bubba!
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-------------------- Jeff Vrstal Main Street Signs 157 E. Main Street Evansville, WI 53536 1-608-882-0322 Posts: 670 | From: Evansville, Wisconsin | Registered: Sep 2001
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You could put a disclaimer on the page and say we made you do it - that this was a special award awarded by your friends and admirers.
A good and deserving sign is a good and deserving sign.
Go for it!
-dan
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Mark, I understand why you don't want to accept this award. It's the prize money ain't it. You think it would look bad if ya kept that fat check, doncha? I'm here to help ya out, Bubba. You can send it up here to the northern edge of Dixie and I'll take care of it for ya!
I'm gonna walk on over to the mail box now and wait a spell.
Take the award Bubba, we all want ya to. Your work is deserving You've earned it Ya got it!
-------------------- Bill Dirkes Cornhole Art LLC Bellevue, Ky. Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
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OK, how'z about if we get someone else to do the write up and create the page. Seems it might not be fair (no pun intended) to take it over (just the once) and make Mark do the work. Kinda like stealing someones car then charging them for any maintenance.
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So lets steal his car, and send him a bill, I'm up fer that....!!
My personal opinion is, I'm NOT voting for this sign because Mark is a friend (which he is, or because of any "How-To' he wrote, or any other number of "Bubbly" reasons we can all name here....
I AM voting for this sign because,.... It stands on it's own merit, that of good layout, design, composition/continuity, color combination, and most of all........
It Does What A Sign is supposed to do..... Communicate in a Very Ledgable, Clear, and Eye Pleasing manner....!! I would know what this sign was selling from a block away, and if I were looking for this particular type of business, I wouldn't be driving down the street rubber-necking and creating a hazard trying to find it
I would vote for this sign, no matter who painted it !!
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since mark started this post, he is going to be one of the first judges for the new SOTM(starting april 2002, i already have a coupla winner's for feb. and march.) do your thing on a webpage for this mark, if you have the time.
hell, if my buddy CJ likes it, then by Gawd, I like it(CJ doesn't bullsh*t nobody! LOL)
hey Captain Neve, your chad is dangling!
seriously folks, thanks again for the honor, it means a lot coming from some of the best in the biz!
after the holidays i will let all know how i intend to handle SOTM from now on(hopefully with the help from you guys and gals as judges)
Merry Christmas friends,
just another letterhead,
mark
(SOTM would be nothing without letterville, thanks steve and barb.)
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Good to hear you've accepted! Great work Mark!!!
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