Everything Doesn't Taste Like Chicken

Maybe the stand owners were trying to tell Jewish people that they could eat smoked turkey legs as a kosher alternative to ham. Then again, if they never had ham in the past, how would they know if this slogan was correct? I've had smoked turkey legs a few times in the past, and I have never caught myself saying it tasted like anything else, and if I were to own a stand like this, I don't know if this would be the great tag-line I was looking for. Of course it could have been a better alternative to any of these slogans:

• Smoked Turkey Legs: "You know beef? Chicken? Yeah, this tastes nothing like them."
• Smoked Turkey Legs: "Pink poultry that won't make you sick."
  
• Smoked Turkey Legs: "It's like Thanksgiving meets Marlboro."

Having a great tag-line or slogan on your banners or signs is always a good idea. Just make sure it is sending the right, and most important message. To see some great messages we have sent using signs and banners, check out our website!

EMERGENCY Bread & Milk!!!

Thanks to local Tweep & Facebooker, Ryan for snapping this pic just before 2009's first snow storm hits. How was it ever decided, that the 2 most essential items you need in preparation for a snow storm was bread and milk? I can think of plenty of things we could grab to eat in the house before chomping on some bread and washing it down with a big glass of moo-moo juice. It just kind of strikes me as being an odd selection of priorities. In fact, here are 10 things I think should come before you really need bread and milk:

10) Hot Cocoa/Tea/Coffee
9) Blankets
8) Snow Shovel/Snow Blower
7) A Bunch of Movies
6) Sleds
5) Gloves
4) Snow Boots
3) Video Camera to record vehicles stuck outside as you laugh inside in the warmth
2) iPod with Earphones, so you can drown out the sound of the kids fighting, as cabin fever sets in.

AND THE #1 THING YOU MUST BE STOCKED UP ON BEFORE A SNOW STORM........TOILET PAPER! Because face it, what would we do if we ran out of that? (Don't answer that).

To see some hot EMERGENCY vehicles we've lettered, or to check out the ways we have helped business owners pay for their bread & milk, check out our website!

Can I Buy a Gift Certificate for My Neighbor's Dog that Craps on My Lawn?

One of the great things about being in business for yourself, is having the power to make all the decisions, yourself. In big companies you have to run everything through committees and focus groups. In partnerships, you have to hope your partner doesn't reject every creative idea you come up with. Poor Nina here, would have benefited from having another opinion on her company tag line. Of course, she could have done worse. She could have come up with one of these instead:

• "If someone's going to shoot your loved ones, why not me?"
• "Will shoot your dog in my studio, or at your home."

To see some vehicle lettering with great slogans, check out our website!

Unauthorized Parking Pays Off

Sweet! Fifty bucks! Well...at least that would cover the towing bill, perhaps. I wonder how hard it would be to find the $50? Do you think it's just laying in the parking spot? Or maybe the tow truck driver carries around a wad of fifties with him, and will peel one off when he picks up your car.

Spell check isn't the only tool you should use when making signs. We've all done this with emails, etc. "Find" is, after all, a word spelled correctly. Sometimes it just takes a second look, a second opinion, or a second grade education.

To see some of the beautiful, and correctly spelled signs we have done, check out our website!

Here Kitty, Kitty...

Well, leave it up to another pic from my Los Angeles trip, to make an appearance in Stickit Notes. We were strolling through a local Ralph's Grocery Store, when I spotted this... Cat Sand? I checked on Wikipedia to see if there is a common usage of this term, but could only find that the words cat and sand, more often refer to a Sand Cat, a small wild feline. I am assuming that what we on the east coast, call "Kitty Litter", is indeed "Cat Sand" on the West Coast. Either that, or people build sandboxes for their cats to build castles in their back yards? Perhaps cats enjoy the beach as well, but require a specific variety of sand?

When I snapped this pic, of the "Sand", I didn't even notice the other item right above it, "Premium Pet". I wonder what defines a pet as being "Premium". Is that an anti-dog slur? Are they insinuating that all other pets are basic, but cats are more prestigious? How rude! It was probably those kitties themselves that posted these signs. Those cats think they are so cool.

To see what some of the coolest cats I know have said about us, check out our website.

Bathroom Sinks Make Great Souvenirs

This morning, my wife noticed this puzzling sign at BWI Airport. I can see why it prompted her to send me the pic with the caption, "Huh? The water? The faucet? The mirror? The counter?" I mean, what exactly is going on here? Wherever you find signs like these, there has most likely been an offense that warranted the posting of such sign. This begs the questions, did someone try to remove the counter top? Did some would-be terrorist try to assault someone with a motion-sensing faucet? Or are you allowed to take any of these items, but simply just not allowed to take the little sign? Hmmm.......?????

If you want to see some signs that actually make sense, check out our website.

Attention: Clumsy Smokers Only Have $540 in their Bank Account

Truly puzzling isn't it? One would hope there was some reason or logic behind the specific amount of a fine for starting a fire at this lookout point in Los Angeles, CA., where I visited the other week. Maybe they did a study among arsonists and clumsy smokers and determined that their attention threshold was reached at $541? Maybe they mounted a hidden camera by this sign, and no one looked at the sign until it reached $541? Sometimes when you want to drive a simple point home, you need to create some confusion. Whatever the reason, I found it amusing.

To see some of the ways we drive some points home, check out some of our work on our website.