Stupid Signs: Go back into your hole

Today’s submission comes from a person who wishes to remain anonymous.  The person who wrote the top portion of this sign should also go into hiding.
(In case you can’t read it: FOR SALE BEECOLNYS)
*Supra (in bee terminology): Above, beyond or over.

Evolution or devolution?

John Shomby writes about the Little League World Series and ESPN’s coverage of it on his blog today:
Here I was watching 10, 11 and 12-year old children….CHILDREN!!……being analyzed with respect to their hitting with runners on base (or lack thereof); there repertoire of pitches and their hitting statistics for the year and the tournament. I’ll [...]

Stupid Signs: Put on your best dress and go back to school

I don’t know what’s worse — the sign, itself, or the blatant misuse of the word “formally.”
For the record, I’ve never understood how a mistake on a sign or an awning or the side of a truck — something that takes serious effort to produce — could make it all the way through the process [...]

Stupid Signs: Sock this person

“Micofiber,” eh?
(Hat tip to my girl Kelly, who just went back-to-back jack on the sign submissions.)

Look at us!

Went to see my buddy J in the hospital yesterday.
(Good news: He’s not dying.  Bad news: They failed to fix his snap hook.)
With the television off and our cell phones ignored, we — imagine this — had an actual conversation for over an hour.  Like, a real conversation.  Face-to-face.  Voice-to-voice.  Eye contact.  Listening.  Thoughts that [...]

HHL update: Koller’s five goals spark conversation about his priorities

By Rick Shanley|AP Wire
OSHTEMO — Concerned that Horan Hockey League Vice President of Operations and General Manager of Get Shit Done, Joe Koller, might be losing focus of his priorities, not to mention his age, HHL chief Jimmy Horan voiced concern for his second-in-command Monday evening after finding out [...]

Writer’s block

Pro golfers get the yips.
Bank tellers have bad weeks on the drawer.
Writers — the best, the worst, the mediocre — get writer’s block.
I have it.
It sucks.
Now, this.

Stupid Signs: The mother of them all

My friend Kelly met this guy at a networking event Friday.
Look closely…
Yep.
I know.
Oy.
Kelly cut him slack in her email: “I mean, it’s JUST the dean.  Come on now.”

Health care: Nobody cares about you

“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.  You don’t.  You have owners.  They own you.  They own everything.”  — George Carlin
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Five years ago, you couldn’t pull me away from CNN.
I was up on everything.  The war.  The latest scandals.  Katrina.  Everything.  I [...]

“I don’t like to do abs”

You don’t say.
“My problem is I’ve been lazy,” Zambrano said. “There are things in life that you don’t like but you have to do. I don’t like to do abs, but I will have to start doing my abs every day and be serious about my abs.”
For $18.75 million this season, Carlos, mix in a [...]