Thursday, March 13, 2008

Top 10 Favorite Signs In My Neighborhood

1) Served in a hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant: Homlet. If you retranslated it back to French, would it mean "little man?" 2) Coming onto my son's school campus: Drive slow. I wonder if the class on adjectives and adverbs is next semester? 3) Painted on the Amtrak platform: Stand in back of the line. What happened to the perfectly good word "behind?" Was it considered too rude? 4) The name of an Armenian coffee shop: Ancient Grounds. How appetizing! 5) The name of a Cambodian bar: Little Joy. A place to cry in your beer. 6) Elvis dress shop. Elvi really should punctuate or she'll perpetuate the myth he's still alive. 7) Outside La Parrilla restaurant: A real Mexican kitchen. That has many scratching their head, but it's the literal translation of the French word "cuisine." 8) On the left rear bumper of a laborer's truck: Passing side. On the right: Suiside. 9) Legal Bookstore. What would the illegal one sell? 10) Outside the library: Literacy class ->

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