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Re: psychoceramics: THEY ARE DANGEROUS NAZIS



[Steve Lamont]
> > Reason #412 to walk by your local courthouse...last week not only was
> > there the man with the sign saying "4000 DEAD DAIRY COWS = 4000 DEAD
> > LAWYERS", ...
> 
> I'm curious: what did this guy look like?  Did he have light sandy
> colored hair, fairly closely cut, perhaps a bit curly?  Sort of a
> roundish, cherubic looking face?  How big was the sign?  Maybe four
> feet by two feet, neatly lettered?
> 
> This fellow, or at least the sign, sounds an awful lot like the "Sign
> Guy" I've mentioned on this list once or twice before.  He shows up on
> street corners down here with his large poster sized signs with often
> quite cryptic messages.  He has a different one each day (though he
> does seem to recycle some of them).  The messages are sometimes but
> not always vaguely religious in tone, though often they seem to
> actually be questioning belief rather than promoting it.  They
> certainly aren't the run of the mill "Jesus Saves" sort.
> 
> He'll stake out a heavily travelled intersection and he seems to camp
> there with his signs for several weeks, then he suddenly disappears,
> usually leaving one of the signs posted until the city workers come
> and remove them.  He's been here at the entrance to the medical school
> a couple of times and I've seen him elsewhere in the area.

Is there any list of the Sign Guy's slogans?  The ones I've heard of so
far ("THERE IS NO 'X' IN CHRISTMAS", "THE TRUTH HURTS ONLY IF YOU THINK
ABOUT IT", &c.) are intriguing.  I for one would be interested in seeing
more of them.

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