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Old 01-05-2022, 05:46 PM   #1
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Old 01-05-2022, 05:54 PM   #2
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Hey, they must be stealing some of our customers!
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Old 01-05-2022, 10:15 PM   #5
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Old 01-06-2022, 01:42 AM   #6
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And I thought that was a local law firm.


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Old 01-06-2022, 12:22 PM   #9
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I first saw this sign in a snowmobile repair shop 40 years ago :


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This one was in a front yard outside Franklin IN. Private sign! Do not read!
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We have been doing so much with so little for so long, we now can do anything with nothing.
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Old 01-06-2022, 03:24 PM   #14
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This one was in a front yard outside Franklin IN. Private sign! Do not read!
I have seen that sign on US 31 south of Franklin. It always makes me smile.
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Engraved on a buddy's Zipo in a different world "We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, to do the unnecessary, for the ungrateful".


And from a sign in an outboard repair shop at the old site 6 now Lake Havasu,
"We don't care what they charge back in LA"
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On the wall behind the cash register in the filling station where I worked as a teenager: " In God we trust-all others pay cash".
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Engraved on a buddy's Zippo in a different world "We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, to do the unnecessary, for the ungrateful".
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