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Slice of Life: Going After the Dungeons and Dragons Market

by Joey deVilla on October 26, 2009

While going out for brunch with our friends Liz and Keith and their kids on Roncesvalles, I saw these signs promoting Kennel Cafe’s services. If you never played Dungeons and Dragons, the jokes are totally meaningless, but if you have, they’re pretty amusing:

Kennel Cafe sign: "Cats add a +5 modifier to all persuasion and intimidation skill checks. Adopt a cat!"

Kennel Cafe sign: "Cats provide 15% base mana cost reduction for all spells -- even Lay on Hands!!!"

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Slice of Life: Happy New Underwear Day!

by Joey deVilla on September 15, 2009

Seen outside Smart Mouth Cafe in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood:

Chalkboard sign outside Smart Mouth Cafe: "Welcome! It's new underwear day! Well, new to us."

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Signs of the Day: “Fatal and Tragic” and “Out of Order”

by Joey deVilla on September 1, 2009

Sign on Golden Gate Bridge: "Crisis Counseling / There is hope, make the call / The consequences of jumping from this bridge are fata and tragic". Below it is the help phone with a piece of paper taped over it: "Temporarily out of service / To call sergeant's office use a cell phone / (415) 923-2220"

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At Last, a “Town Hall” Protest I Can Get Behind

by Joey deVilla on August 14, 2009

Protestor at Town Hall holding sign that reads "Obama: Bring back Arrested Development"

And it’s spelled properly, too!

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Business Hours [Updated]

by Joey deVilla on August 4, 2009

I had a housemate who would never enter a time in the microwave that ended in “0” – she’d always reheat something for 38 seconds or defrost something for 8 minutes, 22 seconds – never 30 seconds or 9 minutes. If she weren’t a lawyer with a prestigious firm here in Accordion City, I’d swear this store – given the hours posted – was hers:

"Business Hours" sign with times that don't end on the hourr, half-hour or even quarter hour, such as "Monday: 12:12 - 7:07".

Update: The eagle-eyed Estelle H. pointed out in a comment that she recognized those store hours – they’re those of the Conspiracy Culture bookstore on Queen West.

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On Second Thought, THIS is the Sign of the Day

August 3, 2009

Found via Certified Bullshit Technician.

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Sign of the Day

August 3, 2009

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Sign of the Day

July 27, 2009

 Photo courtesy of Fukung.net.

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The Job Opportunity You Can’t Refuse

July 26, 2009

Allen Stern blogs about a sign that’s outside Rice to Riches, a rice pudding place in New York City’s East Village:

The sign reads:
Help Wanted
Start a career in the fascinating, fast-paced lucrative pudding business

Long hard hours
Very low pay
Lots of heavy lifting
Work for a ball-busting asshole
Dead-end job
No benefits
No advancement
Must be college grad

Start immediately

It’s attention getting; Allen [...]

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The “No Accordions” Sign

July 24, 2009

I don’t normally vandalize signs, but I’d make an exception for this special case:

Stefan Arentz, a co-member of HacklabTO, sent me the photo. He says that it was put up by a Dutch cafe owner to ban accordion-playing gypsies.

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Type Nesting

April 28, 2009

Type Nesting is a site that’s focused on a single topic: photos of birds nesting in the letters of signs. They really seem to like uppercase As and Rs.
[Found via Waxy.org]

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This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (or: Bar Sign of the Day)

January 26, 2009

Perhaps if they’d given the night another name, it might have turned out differently:

I have no idea what bar this sign is for. I just ran across this picture here and thought it was too good not to share.
(I hear every Monday is Shitfaced Monday over at David Crow’s house.)

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