If you break wind and the term "outgassing" comes to mind...You might be a Letterhead!
If people refer to you as a "colorful" based on the amount of paint on your wardrobe...You might be a Letterhead!
If there's more paint on the floor of your shop than on the outside of it...You might be a Letterhead!
If you enjoy the smell of mineral spirits more than the smell of steak on a barbecue...You might be a Letterhead!
If your trash barrel looks like someone ate a bag of jellybeans and hurled in it...You might be a Letterhead!
If you use your airbrush as a hair dryer...You might be a Letterhead!
If you've never known that the word "weeding" also refered to gardening...You need to get out more often!
If you think being referred to as a "One Shot Wonder" is an honor...You might be a Letterhead!
If you go to a wedding and spend time thinking of how different colored letters would have made the cake look better...You might be a Letterhead!
If there's ten different colors under your fingernails, and it inspires 4 good color schemes you can use on your next design proposal...You might be a Letterhead!
If leaving fingerprints upsets you more than having them taken...You might be a Letterhead!
Apologies to Jeff Foxworthy...but I'm feeling a little "saucy" today... Rapid
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
If when out and about...you have to feel signs to see if they're vynull...YMBAL If you come back from a meet with paint on your boobs...YMBAL If your Caller ID roster lists only outta state sign shops...YMBAL If you schedule surgery around meets...YMBAL If every pair of shoes you own (including high heels) has paint specks on em...YMBAL When in town, someone hollers "HEY SIGN LADY!"...YMBAL When in traffic, you see vehicles you lettered and their drivers honk & wave at you...YMBAL If your mom drives her golden girlfriends down the main highway pointing out your signs...YMBAL If you get 5 IM Pop-Ups every time ya log onto Letterville, and you like em...YMBAL Well that's it fer me Rabid...my creative juices have gone dry. Love Ya...JILL Posted by Jeff Spradling (Member # 1615) on :
If your dog walks around with tape snakes stuck to his feet...YMBAL
If you get asked what's that stick for...YMBAL
If you are asked if you do this full time...YMBAL
If you are asked if you went to school to learn how to do that...YMBAL
If you can't wait for the mail to come...YMBAL
If you are asked if stickers are cheaper than paint...YMBAL
If you are asked to sponsor their racecar...YMBAL
If the garbage man gets more respect than you do from the general public...YMBAL
If you take pics of signs when you are on vacation....YMBAL
If your monitor is full of icons for graphics and/or sign programs....YMBAL
If you refer to colors using 1Shot numbers....YMBAL
If you can give lessons on how to sharpen tools and chisels....YMBAL
If you can rebuild an airbrush blindfoled....YMBAL
If you walk around with pieces of vinyl and/or transfer tape stuck on the back of your shoes....YMBAL
If your "Sunday Go to meeting" clothes have paint on them...YMBAL
If your calendar has all the upcomming Meets marked on it....YMBAL
Posted by Linda Schmidt (Member # 2337) on :
If you use red vinyl in place of nail polish... YMBAL Posted by Ron Costa (Member # 3366) on :
If you ever tried to light a cigarette while holding a thinner soaked rag, YMBADLFNH
If you ever sprayed yer spouse while back flushing an airbrush, YMBADLFNH
If you ever painted a race car number to look like vinyl peeling up at the corners, YMBADLFNH
Posted by Jerry Mathel (Member # 526) on :
If your last blood test came back "104 Red" YMBAL
Posted by The Moon (Member # 452) on :
If you are IN the hospital and you keep asking the nurses "Where can I hook up?" looking for a modem line -YMBAL
If your 14 year old daughter is called "Mini Moon", because it's YOUR online Nickname -YMBAL
If that same 14 year old daughter bugs you monthly/weekly/or daily for info on the Next Meet- YMBAL
If she also prefers hanging out with Si than YOU- YMBAL We all love ya Si!
If you have pictures of old men feeding her Gold Leaf in an "Old Chicken Barn" -YMBAL
If your guest room was created FOR Steve & Barb- YMBAL
The IAAL (I am a Letterhead) side of the Moon
Posted by david drane (Member # 507) on :
If you crash your car into another car looking back at a sign....YMBAL
Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
If you once lived in a mobile home and replaced damaged siding on the back of it with signs you took down from a jobsite, and left it that way 'cuz it looked cool,
you might be a REDNECK letterhead!!! Posted by Peter Schuttinga (Member # 2821) on :
People stop and ask for directions, and all the landmarks you tell them to follow .. are signs... YMBAL
The top of your ear is preserved with brush oil.. YMBAL
You can differentiate brands of vinyl by odour alone...YMBAL
what smell?....YMBAL
You know what RT is....YMBAL
When petting an animal you wonder how well their fur would work in a sable ...YMBAL
A good lay out is not a sexual reference...YMBAL
Jill, paint on your boobs? Posted by Mike Contreras (Member # 1571) on :
If you have sat on a WetRag, and wished you were dead cause it was Soaked with Laquer Thinner...... YMBAL!
Posted by Tasmus (Member # 445) on :
iF YOU DRAW ON YER NAPKINS at a fancy restaurant...YMBAL!!
If you feel compelled to critique every sign you see....YMBAL..
If you have perfected the art of getting a good look at truck lettering as you meet them on the road...at 60 miles and hour...YMBAL
If you use SIGN-MAKING LESSONS as an incentive for your 8 year old to do his work at school....YMBAL!!
If your Grilled Chicken sandwich tastes like paint....and then you look at your hands and see why....YMBAL!!
HEHEH
BTW JILL---Didn't I see you on RIPLEY'S with that picture paintin' booby talent o' yours?
How much paint did you get on ya...quart or pint...?? hehehehe
[ March 02, 2004, 07:16 PM: Message edited by: Tasmus ]
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
It was just a blotch of Kansas City Teal.... Was wearing my silk zebra skin PJ's at the Jam and was a bit floppier than usual, bent over the paint table & bumped into an open can. Took a week to get it off. (Kissy said "Woman! Ya don't wear a BRA with your Jammies!" so I had removed it.) Love...Jill Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
If you cruise chicks here, you might be a Letterhead.
If one comes home with you, SHE must be a Letterhead.
If you marry that woman, you might a Letterhead... or just plain ol' smart.
I am still thinking of KC teal....
Posted by The Moon (Member # 452) on :
I'm blowing Pepsi out my nose laughing at these! Keep 'em going!!!
Jill, Jill, Jill... Kansas-City-Teal-Jill!
If someone says "gimme some Frog Juice" and you DON'T think of sqeezing them green babies into a blender- YMBAL
If you go in to get your nails filled (fake nails guys) and she repremands you for having paint ALL OVER your nails, and under them, and up your fingers... -YMBAL
If ALL your friends LIVE in Letterville- YMBAL
Posted by The Moon (Member # 452) on :
Oh yeah- and Smooth Words there Bruce. In trouble with Dana, or.... hopes of getting lucky? LOL
Posted by Dana Bowers (Member # 780) on :
... or you almost run over a couple of young gals because you're too busy checking out a sign to even notice them (with your letterhead wife in the car laughing at you) - YMBAL!!
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
If you complain that "there's to many pictures of people in this roll of film..."
you rate garages on how well they would make a "cool studio"
talk to young people...hoping to convince them that being a signperson would "help their lives!??"(that was a long time ago)
keep a running mental(?) list of "old wall signs that I GOTTA get a photo of...
count the sleeps 'til The Black Hills Gold Rush...
John Lennig / SignRider
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
If you run around with 23k specks of gold in your hair - YMBALH
If you refer to the teal as blue green - YMBALH
If you have tools with names like, mahl, pounce and fitch - YMBALH
When you can embellish or flourish with the help of a dingbat - YMBALH
If you refer to pink as magenta - YMBALH
If the bill of you ball hat has colored finger prints on them and the seat of your pants has colored finger prints on them - YMBALH having a rough day
If you can gain an upper hand on an argumentative customer simply by drawing a color wheel - YMBALH
If each time you go to the store for groceries you throw in a couple cartons of Dixie cups - YMBALH
If you call all around town for Bon Ami and surgical cotton on the roll - YMBALH
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
You might be a Letterhead if . . . .
... you use the skin that you let form in the paint can to pallette your brush on.
...you know the real meaning of the word "pounce".
...you have a PHD and know how to use it.
...if you have at least one lettering brush that has virtually no hairs left but it's still your favorite.
...if your friends say :"I knew you did that sign! It looks like your style".
...if you have ever held a knife to someone's throat or yelled at the kids or the dog for stirrin' up dust in the shop where you have wet panels.
...if you have used-tape hangin' everywhere.
...if your kid says, "MOM! You got on too much perfume!", and you say, "Well, I just kept sprayin' 'til I could smell it....".
...you count type styles, not sheep, to get sleepy.
...if you have ever stepped back to get a better prospective on a wall job...while on a scaffold. . . Posted by Tasmus (Member # 445) on :
One last one or two I had to add after this evening....
You know you are a letterhead if.....
"It doesn't bother you that the stuff you see in the tissue after blowing your schnozz is various shades of magenta, purple and blue."
"You are familiar with and USED TO the sensation of your nostril hairs sticking to the inside of your nose holes, even the ladies.....right JILLY-O?" Posted by Darryl Gomes (Member # 98) on :
If you can light your cigarette with the Electro-Pounce, and not get zapped!! YMBAL
Posted by Dave Draper (Member # 102) on :
If you spray paint your shoes before going on a sales call, YMBAL
If You use a black China marker in stead of eye liner for make up, YMBAL
If you sharpen your pencil with a snap blade knife, YMBAL
If you scrape your furnace flu to get charcoal for pounce, YMBAL
If you can't find the ONLY PENCIL in your entire shop, YMBAL
If you still use scotch tape to make straight edges for the top and bottom of letters, YMBA really old Letterhead
If you take your wife out to a nice Aniversary dinner, and your fingernails will not come clean, even after hours of scrubbing, YMBAL
And
If you use PLAYBOY magazine to pallet your brush on, painting swimsuits on the nude pictures, YMBAL! ( That was very true of old time sign painters in this area)
Posted by David Fisher (Member # 107) on :
One posted by a female on a similar post from ages ago...
You hear "PMS" used in general conversation and you wait to hear which number.
For me: You have to give your boots a fresh coat of black to attend a match, hatch or dispatch. You clean the BBQ plate with the angle grinder/wire brush and realise you just spattered your best T Shirt with black grunge, and it was a meet shirt. (that one really sucks) You can answer the phone & eat a sandwich while holding a paint pot, mahl stick and brush without noticing anything unusual.
A new addition!: You get pulled over by the cops for answering your mobile phone while drive and the best excuse why your passenger couldn't take the call is because he is from another country and has a really thick accent (damn shame - the cop didn't accept it, seemed reasonable to me)
David
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Note to Frank Manning: 1-Shot color #157-L shall be now and forever more known as Kansas City Teat.
and
If while trying to hang a "Time to Spring for a New Sign" banner on yer front porch, in your pajamas during heavy morning traffic on the 4-lane highway that runs past your house (while your pug is leaving a steaming morning offering) and the grommet breaks the bungee snaps you in the head...YMBAL
love...silly jilly Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
LOL JILLY!! What colour are "teats" in Kansas City??
You might be a Leterhead if . . .
...Your spelling is terrible.
...if you have ever inverted at least two numbers on the phone number.
...if you have ever painted a double-sided sign with arrows and well, ...if yer a Letterhead ...YOU KNOW!!
Posted by The Moon (Member # 452) on :
YMBAL ...if you drive through town in your truck and when you get home, while you are sitting in your driveway, cops pull up behind you. They found you by the trail you left through town, via the can of paint that fell open in the back of truck bed.
Posted by Brenda Daley (Beaupit) (Member # 37) on :
You never need nail polish!
No one recognizes you at social events in "dress up" clean clothes.
Home decorating involves signs.
Race your partner to the tool department at home depot.
Your vehicle smells of chemicals.
You can work till four in the morning because your high on paint fumes.
Does 1 shot smell.......I'm told it does.....???
Posted by Paul Peltier (Member # 4058) on :
If you have sample signs in your living room, so they stay clean.....YMBAL
If you have sign panels leaning against the wall in your dining room, so the newly painted border doesn't pick up dust in the shop....YMBAL
If you need a larger workshop to practice the Craft...YMBAL
Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :
...all the phone numbers on the wall by your phone were written with a quill.
...your cat's favorite toy is a yardstick. And he thinks it's YOUR favorite toy.
...your coffee tastes like paint thinner - and vice versa.
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
bump....just for fun
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
You MIGHT be a Letterhead if. . . . .
~You feel compelled to enlighten people about the size of the round letters . . . . . .
~Your child's friends come runnin' up to you "tellin'": "She said you painted that big sign downtown!!! . . . "
~You freak-out people and even yourself, with an uncanny ability of being able to tell if something is even 1/8 inch off . . . tape measures & levels break out and your always right.
~You think nothing of straightening pictures, posters, or small signs hanging in any establishment.
~Your grown, moved-out, married, kid, NOW thinks you're cool and brags about you , tho' they used to HATE bein' seen with you, 'specially in THAT truck or your work clothes. (PS: This also overlaps with ALL parents in "You might be the parent of a teen if . . ." )
~You owe panels . . . . (this is a new one I'm experiencing . . . God, how the guilt hangs on 'til it compels me to action . . . .)
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
...I'm afraid I know that guilt
...you check the line spacing & margins before (or instead of) reading bumper stickers in traffic... not to mention seeing all the improved composition options for laying out all the stickers on a given bumper/tailgate.
...as a subconscious matter of course, bad looking signs usually don't seem to be worth reading the copy (even when the consequences are detrimental)
...business names, product descriptions, & marketing ideas automatically set in motion a flood of graphic imagry parading across the minds eye.
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
If you're still readin' this stuff, you're a Letterhead, with TOO MUCH TIME, COME ON, GET BUSY!!!
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
If you've ever received a package of Tim tams or Cherry Ripes from Australia, and said shipping container was made of coroplast (or corflute in Aussie), and you sent a panel in return using the previously mentioned coroplast as packing material.. YMBAL. BTW Jon, I'm ready for more Cherry Ripes.
If you have phone conversations that start off like "Hey Kissy, it's Sticky... ".. YMBAL
If you come home from running errands and there's a message on the answering machine from a crazy New Yawkah pinstriper disguising his voice as a dolphin.. YMBAL
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
you spend more time here than anywhere else on the 'net, YMBAL
Posted by fayette pivoda (Member # 4339) on :
,,when your first grader asks the teacher 'what font?' when asked to do an alphabet
,,when the neighborhood kids all line up at your garage to get their names lettered on their skateboards
,,when your kids weed vinyl while watching 'toons on tv
,,when you clean the chrome yellow from your kids ears after a bath
,,when your kids start pulling out paint decks when asked their favoite color
,,when your daughters boyfreind comes in for a very serious discssion with you concerning a flame job on his car
,,when you buy groceries you'll never eat just because the package has cool lettering
,,when you discuss a boat lettering job with the judge in court
,,when the opposing attorney in court inquires about a sign for his office ($$$!)
,,when the patterns in the garage, your stash of new lettering quills and the sign software gets listed in the discovery motions in divorce court
,,when the opposing attorneys name somehow gets mispelled on the directory of his building
,,when the art in your house is sample font panels
,,when the hood of your truck is covered in chicken scratch sketches and paint spatters
,,when you bag the tv in favor of an electro pounce bench
,,when you have discussion with the old lady in the next door apartment about the interference to tv's in your complex
,,when your apartment neighbors complain of the chemical odors that have recently invaded the neighborhood
,,when the downstairs neighbor complains of the sawdust drifting down to their balcony
,,when you automaticly start explaining how your left hand is the free one
,,when you learn to cover paint spatters on your good clothes with matching vinyl remnants
,,when your boot polish is a can of krylon gloss black
,,when your out of cologne and use a drop or two of turps for a hot date
,,when your on your third cel phone as the previous two are in the bottoms of cans of paint
,,when you use that gorpy salad bowl your ex's grandmother gave as a wedding gift to mix a nasty brown color to paint on the backsides of signs
,,when you introduce your as 'Hi, my name is Fayette and I paint signs'
,,when you get really curious about this kansas city teal color
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
...when you watch a beautiful sunset and immediately wonder if you have enough One Shot colors in stock to do it on a wall.
...when being referred to as a "Pinhead" or "Airhead" is a compliment.
...when you spend $50 bucks on a racing video game so you can paint the cars.
...when you reach into your pocket to pay for something in the store, you spend 10 minutes moving around your tape measure, retractable blade, squeegees, pencils and the tiny bits of application tape to access your loose change.
...you buy lottery tickets to use as clip art.
Rapid
Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
Fayette, I'm in tears.
My favs:
If all of your clothes are categorized as 'painted' or 'not-yet-painted' YMBAL
If you build a new shop and it's bigger than your house YMBAL
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ray Rheaume: ...when you reach into your pocket to pay for something in the store, you spend 10 minutes moving around your tape measure, retractable blade, squeegees, pencils and the tiny bits of application tape to access your loose change.
Hehehe been there done that!
I usually wear swim trunks or board shorts with big pockets every day.
One day on my way home from a morning application job I stopped at another local mom-n-pop shop that's also a vinyl distributor to pick up some film. Naturally, my wallet was out in the truck but I didnt know it at the time. Thinking it was burried in a pocket I started pulling out the scissors, X-actos, squeegees, masking tape, magnets, tweezers, etc etc in search of it. I even had discarded pieces of release liner and transfer tape in there (I put it in the most convenient spot while doing applications, hehe). The owners of the shop (a husband and wife team) got a kick out of that spectacle, they knew what it was like too. Posted by Peter Schuttinga (Member # 2821) on :
You use RT to cover up the smell of stale solvent spilled in your vehicle.
You use a scrap piece of vinyl to cover up the hole in the drywall that the doornob created in the shop.
You're always picking out little pieces of vinyl from your shoes/socks/sleeves/dog/cat.
You look in the mirror and discover why the customer looked at you so funny... blue chalk pouncing dust cause you had an itchy nose.
You hold a brush in your teeth so you can re-position a sign on the easel, and re-discover you taste for one-shot.
discovering scrap vinyl makes for a great lint/pet hair remover
going along with Jill's blue boob incident....for the guys at least... discovering a rainbow of coloured finger prints on your private member at the end of a paint slinging day ...(got to wash before AND after) Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
You've ever painted your dog. Ture Story: Someone asked what happened to the new pup that he had dried blood on him. I looked & discovered it was burgundy 1-shot.
Peter, the brush in the teeth thing is the reason I wear a hat. Didn't wear one at Boone's while I was painting & the rest of the day everyone had to tell me I had paint in my hair.
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
Fayette!! Those were a hoot!!
Kissy!! All my dogs have been 1, black or chocolate labs (dark coats) 2,they have all loved to lay right under whatever I'm primin' or coatin' out, which always seems to be 3, when I'm usin' white or some other lite colour . . .4, they have all always walked around with spots and dots . . 5 they always wag the entire last 2' of their tail in that colour because they are always excited when I'm finished with a perfect panel . . . and 6, my trade-mark is at least one long-dog hair in every panel.
I think it's become sort of a shop-policy and brings good luck too . . . . . Posted by Gene Golden (Member # 3934) on :
... if you stick tape on your shirt and go shopping like that because you didn't peel off the "lower" ones. ... if you've reached lower and lower off a ladder and realized you could step down one, or work from the ground instead. ... if your kids groan, "I know Dad... you made that sign." ... if same kids, with friends in car brag, "My Dad did that sign!" ... if you use nose grease to remove everything. ... if you're ticked because the restaurant you're in has stuff printed on the BACK of the placemats (that's plain wrong). ... if you realize that the mayo on your sandwich is removing that paint better than your handcleaners did. ... if you are lamenting that OneShot is going lead-free instead of celebrating the health advantages. ... if you buy stuff at auctions that you may be able to use on a sign one day. ... if you tell a customer, "No problem!" and then go to Letterville to find out how to do the job!
Ray, thanks for bumping this up. Great stuff.
[ August 22, 2004, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: Gene Golden ]
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
If you donate to the sign painters relief fund, YMBAL.
If you cover rust spots on your vehicle with matching vinyl, YMBAL.
If you reach for the cap of your tea on a table and realize that you grabbed a small pill cup full of 1Shot, YMBAL. (Happened this week in Detroit).
[ August 22, 2004, 11:02 PM: Message edited by: Laura Butler ]
Posted by Rovelle W. Gratz (Member # 4404) on :
Gene, I have tested out the mayo for removing paint from your hands. You eat a lot of it with your sandwich.
If the inside of your pockets look like a Van Gogh painting.
As an Illustrator/Sign Painter, I know I'm not the only one who has drunk a small cup of India Ink one time or another.
Posted by Jane Brubaker (Member # 4908) on :
When the amount of your Stuff (sign stuff)equals the amount of his stuff (A two story a garage full of old autos, parts and tools)YMBAL
When you buy a new shirt with a logo on it and the colors are too brite( yikes) yet you love the design and dust it with a can of white spray paint to match the white backgrond for that old worn look. YMBAL
when you cant wear nail poish at work because it will eventually get smeared all over your signwork YMBAL
When you start cutting up some of your favorite old t-shirts to sleeveless and dont feel bad cause your gonna see them and wear them regularily now for work YMBAL
Every time someone fwd-sends a cool poem, sayin or quote and your are compelled to share with other e-friends But- not until you copy and paste onto a new page and alter all the letter heights and styles till it looks cool,effective and impacting, before you mail it off to others YMBAL
Hey thanks for all the input. this page made my month
Ray --- Love your motto and think Ill have to make a sign out of it for me, TODAY Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :
If you feel butt naked without a measuring device and a clip board in your car when making a public appearance of any kind...
If you keep a pms book in your sock drawer for convenience and to protect the paint chips from fading...
If you have more pictures of signs than of family members...
If you have a vinyl squeegee tucked somewhere in every room in your house...
If when you hear the term landscape, and you automatically figure it's the opposite of "portrait"...
If you have to pull out the oven cleaner every time you've moved to change the phone number on your vehicle...
If you have found yourself going to the ends of the earth for a particular projector bulb...
If you have sat up all night tryin to figure a design for a drink holder on your mahl stick...
I'm sure i'll think of some more as I unpack lol...this is great fun!
Posted by William DeBekker (Member # 3848) on :
Your Wife comes out to the shop looking for her new Nail Polish cause you took it as you liked the color and are trying to match it.
You have "The Color of The Month" Cause you orederd a 50yd roll instead of a 10yd roll of some Vinyl.
Your starting to do your web site and realize you have more Photos of Signs you like then you do of your own signs.
Instead of Eating out you rationalize you can buy another font from LHF with the money you saved.
Wonder if you could gild your wedding ring to bring back that luster it first had
Buy goldschlager to get the leaf out when your in a pinch.
Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
YMBAL, if you mix business with pleasure, by helping Jill with a certain paint removal project.
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Posted by Joe Rees (Member # 211) on :
If you ever had to fill out a bank deposit slip with blue stabillo.
Posted by Kevin W. Betz (Member # 4133) on :
When you awake from a Meet and relize it wasn't a dream.
Posted by Frank Magoo (Member # 3950) on :
When you trade groceries for paper signs YMBAL
Posted by Jason Davie (Member # 2172) on :
Ya might be a letterhead:
If you buy see thru transfer tape just because you can re-use it..
Posted by Frank Magoo (Member # 3950) on :
YMBAL if you keep coming in here to check and see if another funnie has been posted on subject of YMBAL
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
If you spend more money on hotel rooms for meets than you did on groceries for a family of four last year...YMBAL
If you use vinyl instead of electrical tape to fix your circular saw cord...YMBAL.
Rapid
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
If, you see a nice sign, go into the store/place and tell the owners firstly what a fine sign they have, whatever it cost was worth it, then detail to them "why" it's so cool. Makes their day!
John, just back from Ottawa and Prince Edward County, Ontario.
Posted by William Holohan (Member # 2514) on :
Weellllll Gooooollllleeeee...
I never considered myself a real letterhead, but maybe my ex was psychic, for she often called me the "One Shot Wonder"....and let me see....."The Minute Man".....and what was the other??? Oh yeah,..."Fast Eddie"....
Posted by jack wills (Member # 521) on :
If you pee in the One-Shot,on a really cold day to keep the colors from slidin' down a window or on a galvanized metal billboard. Yeh, I have really done that and it works!
before I was...CrazyJack
Posted by Louie Pascuzzi (Member # 1373) on :
If you ever dipped your brush in hot chocolate and then put the cup of mineral spirits to your mouth YMBAL.
If you 8 year old daughter does art for school using scrap vinyl and an exacto knife YMBAL
If you kids have the best looking projects in school YMBAL
If everything in your garage is pinstriped YMBAL
If you can paint a better looking plate of ziti than you can cook YMBAL
If you know Von Dutch isn't a clothes designer YMBAL
If you ever tailgated a truck with a good lettering job just to see who did it YMBAL
If you ever beat a speeding ticket by telling the cop that you did the reflective stripes and lettering on his cruiser YMBAL
If you can remember when every speck of paint and speck of gold on your sign kit came from YMBAL
If you can think of a lot more of these lines YMBAL
Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
You get mail addressed to your letterville nickname.
Posted by Kristi Percell (Member # 255) on :
.....If you name your pets after brushes Dog named Sable Cat named Quill
Also had a dog once named One Shot
[ June 08, 2005, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: Kristi Percell ]
Posted by Steve Luck (Member # 5292) on :
If you go down the cereal isle at the grocery store to get color ideas for your next sign layout, YMBAL
Your kids pull vinyl off old banners for you while watching cartoons, YMBAL
After returning from your vacation to DisneyWorld your wife wonders why we have 4 rolls of film of signs and none of the kids, YMBAL
when you'd rather spend your money on the newest and hottest computer with a LCD monitor than on a big screen TV, YMBAL
While on vacation in Ft. Myers Beach, Florida you have to stop by and see where SignCraft magazine's office is located, YMBAL (I did that!)
you stay up way too late reading posts from people that you respect but have never met, YMBAL!
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
You might be a Letterhead if...
~You clean paint out of your fingernails & cuticles any time you have a chance to sit down and have nothing to do...like, on the phone, in church, on a date, sitting in the Dr's office, or when you finally get to be a vehicle passenger . . .
~When these opportunities present themselves and you're miffed because you don't happen to have a razor knife handy to REALLY clean your nails good with . . . YMBAL.
YMBAL if your kid yells at you for trying to clean your fingernails while driving. . .
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
quote: After returning from your vacation to DisneyWorld your wife wonders why we have 4 rolls of film of signs and none of the kids, YMBAL
LOL! My father did the same thing when we went in '77. My mother and I were not happy. Every time we turned around, he'd be off somewhere taking pictures of signs.
So, FF 25 years and I'm on vacation with my family and I find myself doing the same thing at this ghosttown we went to. I looked at my husband and exclaimed with dismay - "I've turned into my father!"
I still have those sign pics he took at Disney World by the way.
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
This one came to mind today and I figured we could all use a smile to start the summer season.
If your wife borrows your Rapid Prep to use as a household cleaner....YMBAL
If your pants have so many paint stains on them, you can stand them upright in the corner...YMBAL
Rapid
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
and if your handkerchiefs resemble 'abstract works of art', ymbal.
Posted by Deri Russell (Member # 119) on :
If you always have an exacto or two sticking out of your back pocket, and they all look at you strangely in the bank line up - you might be a letterhead.
Your teenagers whine because they are driving around in a really embarrassing "Dragon Wagon" - you might be a letterhead.
You go out in public and everyone knows whose store you are working on because your face has colours that match it - you might be a letterhead.
'Some' of your toenails are painted with one shot and you don't even know it (Grampa Dan!!!!)- you might be a letterhead.
Posted by Donald Miner (Member # 6472) on :
And just think there are people out there that pay for material that they could get for free here. Let's hope they never find this site, huh Jill Beans. I should have been a fly on the wall at that happening. Truthfully I have lived several of the incidents, and I can laugh again now. Thank ya'll for the memories. Peace, Don
Posted by Donald Miner (Member # 6472) on :
Here is one I forgot in my prior post. YMBAL if you frame that paint spattered shop towel and enter it in a local art contest and it wins first place. This really happened back in the late 60's. Maybe Jill should have made an impression print of the teal incident and entered that. Gee whiz Jill will you ever live that one down? Remember you are among friends. Peace, Don
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
...right now I have had Dark Green 1S on my abdomen since repainting a sign last week if that's any comfort, Don.
If you use Rapid Remover instead of shower gel...YMBAL.
Love....Jill
Posted by Dick Bohrer (Member # 905) on :
If all your shoes are covered with overspray or paint splatters.
Your wife says these new pants are not to be worn in the shop.
Your kids treehouse is built with old billboard signs.
Your deerstand walls are made with Ammoco aluminum signs.
Your coffee thermos has paint hand prints on it.
Your coffee cup has a 1/4" thick layer of One Shot colors on the handle.
Posted by Michael Heaton (Member # 7731) on :
While in the back seat of the county squad for not paying a seat belt fine the cop strikes up a conversation about pinstriping his cruiser.
You call 911 because you think your ex stole a sketch.
The county judge shows you his art work after he retires and asks your opinion.
Just tell them Mike the sign painter sent ya.
People walk into your sign shop and ask if you paint signs.
You've heard the story of that old, old sign painter that drank too much and shook like a leaf in the wind, BUT... when his brush touched the board he was steady as a rock. You've heard that same story for over 20 years wherever you travel.
You get asked if you can letter a subliminal message on the primer before the top coat.
Posted by Michael Heaton (Member # 7731) on :
Your idea of camping years ago was pitching a tent next to a billboard in a corn field along the interstate and you honestly wonder why you can't get a girl to go with you.
Posted by Dale Manor (Member # 4858) on :
If you spend all day wishing you were in Algoma, Wi right now ......YMALH
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
If you're counting the sleeps before diving to Saskatchewan.
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
. . . Thanx Ray . . . it was a hoot to read all these again . . .
YMALH if your teen or pre-teen is reluctant to share their cute T's or shoes with you: "You better NOT get paint on it mama!!!!'
YMALH when instead of replacing tile-board around the tub . . . since its only rotting around the bottom, you cover it with 8" wide stripes of white vinyl and it's held up great for months now!!
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[ June 23, 2007, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: Sheila Ferrell ]
Posted by Joe Cieslowski (Member # 2429) on :
If ALL the "T" Shirts in your dresser are from letterhead meets and sponsors.......YMBAL
joe,
Makin Chips and Havin Fun!
Posted by ScooterX (Member # 2023) on :
when you can hold a dixie cup of paint in your left hand, while holding onto the top of the extension ladder, cradle the celphone between your shoulder and ear, while holding a brush in your right hand AND a pencil that you're using to write notes on the dixie cup for a job somebody wants you to do tomorrow...
and when your shop is full of dixie cups with notes written on them that you're afriad to throw out because you might need that number...
you have more types of primers on the shelf than you do colors of vinyl...
your "good" clothes are the ones with only a single color of paint splotches.
you know what somebody means when they tell you about camel quills... and you know that camels are really squirels... and you know that the squirels come from Russia...
when you use MEK to start the BBQ...
when there are five rolls of 2" tape on your desk, and each of them has a different purpose but none of them can be used to seal a package.
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
If you sell a sign to the ambulance attendant on your way to the hospital to be treated for a heart attack.
Posted by Donna in BC (Member # 130) on :
Much like we do with bubblewrap, when you 'snap' your jeans on the drive home, that have hardened from Magic Smooth...
When you actually own jeans for only working with Magic Smooth...
When you read about cherry ripes on this post and you actually have the ability to find a stach in your own cupboard that you must have right NOW...
When you're hording any possible container for paint purposes... (any mom's place is generally a gold mine)
When you grab into your 'rag bag' only to find your favorite good tshirt or your son's good socks...
When your cat helped you develop your logo long ago... (cat ran into paint, turning over the container, freaked and ran through the house with a wild trail of footprints. Rather than freaking, you instead are in awe of the most incredible paintsplat on the wood table ever made)
When you walk into a public place and there is NO doubt in anyone's mind around you that you have indeed been up to something by the look of your clothes and face, just no one can figure out quite what! (especially after grinding styrofoam LOL)
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
quote:when there are five rolls of 2" tape on your desk, and each of them has a different purpose but none of them can be used to seal a package.
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