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   stevent1 | Mar 08, 2009 12:15am | #1

   That's funny.

   A local floor covering company uses that slogan.

   Chuck S

   live, work, build, ...better with wood
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   theslateman | Mar 08, 2009 12:17am | #2

   Chuck,

   If you needed those services    - the paving or flooring  - would you be more willing to hire them 'cause of the catchy slogan ? or less likely ?

   Walter

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   stevent1 | Mar 08, 2009 05:03am | #6

   Walter,

   Short answer, less likely. It is a catchy phrase though.

   Glad to read you got a good report from the orthopedic doc.

    

   Chuck Slive, work, build, ...better with wood

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   theslateman | Mar 08, 2009 02:12pm | #10

   Thank you very much Chuck

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   Danno | Mar 08, 2009 12:28am | #3

   Doesn't bother me so much because I am a prude, but more because it isn't "professional" (unless the guy's business is prostitution).

   Same reason I didn't like headbanger music over the radio that customers also heard when I worked at a jewelry store (and the station played songs like "Big Ball" (by AC/DC?)), and the same reason I don't like grunge or whatever they call that suicide-ridden Nirvana-style music they play at the gym where I work out. I guess I'm just hard to please.

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   JeffBuck | Mar 21, 2009 07:40am | #21

   "Same reason I didn't like headbanger music over the radio that customers also heard when I worked at a jewelry store (and the station played songs like "Big Ball" (by AC/DC?)),"

    

   coupla months ago at the kids karate class ...

   during the warm up exercises I happen to notice one of the instructors making a weird face. Then he makes eye contact with another instructor ... another weird face ... then they both look to the instructor leading the exercises.

   The head instructor, Sensei, school owner ... wasn't there.

   so they all look, from one to another ...

    

   then I see the first one who caught my eye ... a 17yr old black belt ... leave the mats and jog casually into the office.

   he changes the radio station ... which had been playing low over the speakers ...

   and only then did I realize that "Big Balls" had been playing!

   as soon as he switched all the parents started laughing ... I think everyone else just realized it at that moment too. I do have to give credit to a 17 yr old kid on that one.

   Jeff    Buck Construction

    Artistry In Carpentry

        Pittsburgh Pa

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   FatRoman | Mar 08, 2009 12:35am | #4

   What's more amusing is the bumper sticker below it.

   Maybe that's the subliminal response they are hoping for?

   'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb

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   theslateman | Mar 08, 2009 12:38am | #5

   Criminey   - I never even saw that until your post and I went back to the picture !!

   See you at the Smith Fest !

   Walter

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   FatRoman | Mar 08, 2009 03:00pm | #14

   Smith Fest, yes looking forward to it!

   Was just looking up directions and this is apparently J. Gatsby "Mike" Smith's place.

   Those Ocean Staters sure know how to live, eh?

   View Image'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb

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   theslateman | Mar 08, 2009 03:03pm | #15

   I thought he lived large !!

   Maybe there will be an intercom system so we can converse from way down the hallways !

   I guess I'll be paying more attention when he dishes out wisdom in the business folder from now on .

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   FatRoman | Mar 08, 2009 03:10pm | #16

   All paid for from his golf winnings I'm told.Intercom? I heard he just has manservants that run messages back and forth :)'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb

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   jimAKAblue | Mar 08, 2009 05:04pm | #17

   thats funny!

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   ShaneG | Mar 08, 2009 05:51am | #7

   Mighty tacky! Maybe that is the kind of customers they are trying to attract.

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   theslateman | Mar 08, 2009 02:13pm | #11

   I wouldn't want them working or subbing from me !

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   nycarpenter | Mar 08, 2009 06:19am | #8

   Klassy, with a capital K.  

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   theslateman | Mar 08, 2009 02:14pm | #12

   My thoughts as well.

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   popawheelie | Mar 08, 2009 08:40am | #9

   There was a muffler place with " no muff to tuff".

   I'd never give these guys my business. And I mean business.

   I have no desire to promote vulgar language as if it is ok somehow.

   If you want to be vulgar that's fine. But on the back of your truck?

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   theslateman | Mar 08, 2009 02:14pm | #13

   I agree totally.

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   Pelipeth | Mar 09, 2009 02:48am | #18

   It can be thought of as funny, but me personally, it's a turn off. Too crude. Great to be standing in your driveway with the wife and 16 year old daughter and have that slogan staring you in the face. I ain't hiring you! I saw a similar sign, something about cats (being dead), said to myself this guy must be out of his mind, pulling into someone's driveway for a job "go see". For this same reason (sort of) I would never put a political sticker on my truck. Plus, in the blacktop world, I've never heard the term "laid" used.

   
   

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   jpeaton | Mar 15, 2009 01:09am | #19

   Id wouldnt use him as a sub. For every customer who thinks its funny there'd be 2 who found it offensive. Why start a job taking that chance??Thought id add a couple more with over-the-top connotations.
   Both from colorado mountain towns.Beaver Liquors
   Master-bait and tacklethey both had huge radio advertising budgets which was pretty dang funny!

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   collarandhames | Mar 19, 2009 03:53am | #20

   not likely to see them on my jobs.  It is funny. Keep driving!

    

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   Catskinner | Mar 21, 2009 07:50am | #22

   I would not hire him. No way.

   In the course of nature, and in human events, there is by definition no such thing as an accidental pattern.
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   JeffBuck | Mar 21, 2009 08:45am | #23

   reminds me of those stupid "truck balls" I see hanging from hitches.

   Jeff    Buck Construction

    Artistry In Carpentry

        Pittsburgh Pa

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   Catskinner | Mar 21, 2009 08:57am | #24

   Yep, that's exactly what I'm talkin' about.Anyone who thinks they needs those things, well, I guess they do. <G>

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   JeffBuck | Mar 21, 2009 09:04am | #25

   "Anyone who thinks they needs those things, well, I guess they do. <G> "

    

   perfect!

   Jeff    Buck Construction

    Artistry In Carpentry

        Pittsburgh Pa

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   JeffBuck | Mar 21, 2009 09:05am | #26

   I always wonder what ya feel like holding them, standing in line ... waiting to pay ...

    

   yech.

   Jeff    Buck Construction

    Artistry In Carpentry

        Pittsburgh Pa

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   ANDYSZ2 | Mar 21, 2009 07:15pm | #27

   I think that would vary as to whether you were buying for self or as a gag.

   I think if I caught them on clearance it would be a pretty good gag to put them in somebodies lunch box when they were sitting with the crew to eat.Especially if they were bragging about how their wife packs his lunch everyday.

   ANDYSZ2

    WHY DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT BEING A SOLE PROPRIETOR IS A REAL JOB?

   REMODELER/PUNCHOUT SPECIALIST

    

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   Catskinner | Mar 21, 2009 07:40pm | #28

   <<I always wonder what ya feel like holding them, standing in line ... waiting to pay ...>>Jeff, that is the funniest thing I've read here in a long time.Glad I had not picked up this cup of coffee.Once many years ago I was in a drug store, standing in the checkout line accompanied by a very good looking lady, buying nothing but a pack of condoms and a bottle of whiskey.A guy I knew walked up behind us in the checkout line. I said, "Hey, how you doin'?"He looked on the checkout conveyor, looked at her, looked at me, and said, "Not as good as you."So I guess buying those truck balls would be about the opposite of that, right?

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   BillW | Mar 21, 2009 08:04pm | #29

   My brother wants to start a septic pumping business and call it "Undeterred" ...

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   Chucky | Mar 21, 2009 08:19pm | #30

   Now that's funny.  Had to think about it for a few seconds but funny just the same..

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   Shoemaker1 | Mar 22, 2009 01:09am | #31

   The bull ball thing! that is why are economy is trash, people have enough money to buy that "stuff", and they bitch about the price of a loaf of bread. Or do the Truck sales people give them away as a reminder they just got ####ed?As for undetered that is great!! A friend of mine owned a septic truck business. the usual polite term is " I need a pump out". So every time I called for service I would try to come up with a new way to ask. My I have my voidings vacumed, Can you fluculate my ####, can you move my movements, Draw my dung, Turbine my tank. His main employee would laugh like hell, god rest his soul.
   When he got a bad cheque he would politly call the home owner and say they had one week to pay cash or he would return the load. Funny how it was an effective collection tactic.

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   Catskinner | Mar 22, 2009 02:26am | #32

   That's pretty good. <G>

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    DonCanDo | Jun 06, 2009 01:22am | #33

    Not exactly a slogan, but this contractor had spruced up his van with bullet holes.  They're stickers, but even in person, they look pretty convincing until you get real close.

    I found it amusing, but this sort of thing is definitely not for me.  I don't want my customers thinking that I park where the drug deals go down.

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   jimAKAblue | Jun 06, 2009 07:18am | #34

   I wouldn't hire Cruz. He's already stiffed me.

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   DonCanDo | Jun 06, 2009 02:51pm | #35

   I wouldn't hire Cruz. He's already stiffed me.

   Seriously?  He's in New Jersey and you're in Texas.  What happened, did he bail at the last minute because he under-estimated the commute?