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    Fancy Sign Dismantled Due to Canadian Terror Threat

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    Image of E. H. Cotton E. H. Cotton
    07/29/09

    In reply to Fancy Sign Dismantled Due to Canadian Terror Threat
    Actually, that's a good point. The Freedom Tower? Speaking of targets, it is going to look and sound like George W. Bush's middle finger. I think if my company decided to move into that building, I would start looking for another job.
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    Image of wundersmack wundersmack
    07/29/09

    In reply to Fancy Sign Dismantled Due to Canadian Terror Threat
    As a 21-year resident of Montana, let me say to you far-northeastern New York staters: you don't know from godforsaken.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    07/29/09

    In reply to Fancy Sign Dismantled Due to Canadian Terror Threat
    It's being replaced by a sign that says '50 Beautiful Girls & Three Ugly Ones'.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    07/29/09

    In reply to Fancy Sign Dismantled Due to Canadian Terror Threat
    "Shhh...maybe if we don't make any noise, they won't know we're here."
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    07/29/09

    In reply to Fancy Sign Dismantled Due to Canadian Terror Threat
    The real danger would be if evil-doers rearranged the letters into something patently unAmerican.
    TASTEE NUDIST might be a little too welcoming.
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    Edited by naugahydeinplainsight at 07/29/09 11:27 AM naugahydeinplainsight was starred naugahydeinplainsight was unstarred
    Image of nozer nozer
    07/29/09

    In reply to Fancy Sign Dismantled Due to Canadian Terror Threat
    OK, I understood (that people are greedy) when Arkansas and many other states needed homeland security funds to protect their alligator farms and whatnot, but either there is some money involved here that I don't see (demolition crews getting a sweet contract?), or these people are idiots.

    If we can't have giant, shiny, yellow letters spelling out things, then the terrorists have really won.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/29/09

    In reply to Fancy Sign Dismantled Due to Canadian Terror Threat
    We should just fight back by playing a certain Tesla song really loudly over a buncha speakers.
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    Image of ninety_nine ninety_nine
    07/29/09

    In reply to Fancy Sign Dismantled Due to Canadian Terror Threat
    A friend works for the GSA. The DHS requirements for the border crossings are no doubt absurd (truck scanners for all the crossings), and there are something like 14 crossings in Maine alone. But the per square foot costs are rather low (under $125, if I recall), and the competition for these jobs was pretty heated. You don't get to ball park your fee or simply throw on an absurd percentage. You have to submit to an audit of your internal costs and are awarded a multiplier. The projects include an art component, which this sign might have been, but that comes from 'Percent for Art' legislation. Getting of these jobs is good for cash flow, but it's not like designing the Prada boutique.
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    Edited by ninety_nine at 07/29/09 11:08 AM ninety_nine was starred ninety_nine was unstarred
    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/29/09

    @ninety_nine: $125 seems really low. Maybe it includes the approach pavement?
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    Image of Galactica Galactica
    07/28/09

    In reply to 'Hispanics Keep Out' Guy Loves Nachos, Friendship
    This "news" organization had no intention of being professional. Their intention was to merely make this guy look like an idiot (not hard to do).
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    Image of yourfriendandneighbor yourfriendandneighbor
    07/28/09

    @Galactica: Actually, the intention was to ask him why he did it and he told the camera.
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    Edited by yourfriendandneighbor at 07/28/09 6:10 PM yourfriendandneighbor was starred yourfriendandneighbor was unstarred
    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    07/28/09

    In reply to 'Hispanics Keep Out' Guy Loves Nachos, Friendship
    My brother is the only registered Democrat in his neighborhood there on Lake Worth, in Azle, TX, where they have "more horses per square mile than Kentucky." They're also thick with bigots, but not so much as Biloxi, because they're spread out over the acreage. I suppose that counts for something ...
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    Image of Queen of the Passive Aggressives Queen of the Passive Aggressives
    07/28/09

    In reply to 'Hispanics Keep Out' Guy Loves Nachos, Friendship
    I need further clarification on his statement about being in the military with his hispanic best buddie. This "taking pix of each other in the urinal, that although his hispanice friend was married they still partied together" sounds very broke back mountain to me. I wonder if there's an old urinal picture under this guy's car visor. He may be forever bitter due to this long lost latin love.
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    eleusiswalks promoted this comment Edited by Queen of the Passive Aggressives at 07/28/09 2:02 PM Queen of the Passive Aggressives was starred Queen of the Passive Aggressives was unstarred
    Image of goetz goetz
    07/28/09

    In reply to 'Hispanics Keep Out' Guy Loves Nachos, Friendship
    He says he's "Indian," so I'm assuming he doesn't want to be filmed because he thinks the camera will steal his soul. Unless of course he means dot Indian.
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    Image of yourfriendandneighbor yourfriendandneighbor
    07/28/09

    @goetz: Actually, that's a she.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    07/28/09

    In reply to 'Hispanics Keep Out' Guy Loves Nachos, Friendship
    C'mon, Guanabee, Charo is from Spain... Shouldda gone with Ricardo Montalbán...
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    07/28/09

    In reply to 'Hispanics Keep Out' Guy Loves Nachos, Friendship
    Well he's a charmer isn't he. He cuts such a dashing figure with his inane chatter and his stubby fingers covered in goo. Ladies, one at a time!
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    Image of Rhymenocerous Rhymenocerous
    07/28/09

    In reply to 'Hispanics Keep Out' Guy Loves Nachos, Friendship
    "My best friend was Hispanic" is SUCH a cliche. If I had a nickel for every time I heard it...
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