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Ogden Nash: I think that I shall never see
A bill-board lovely as a tree.
Perhaps unless the bill-boards fall
I shall never see a tree at all.
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Perhaps unless the bill-boards fall
I shall never see a tree at all
Not apropros of Burma-Shave signs, certainly, but funny nonetheless.
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I do approve of saving some of the old signs that had good taste in their conception in the first place, which the Burma Shave signs surely did. But a post is where you find it, so I couldn't waste the O.N. bit. And the billboards Nash was complaining about really did obstruct view of scenery. And there were so goddam many of them. I was surprised however that there was an outcry in Boston when the Citgo enormous pyramid of colored bulbs visible from the Red Sox stadium was going to be replaced. The public is unpredictable.
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. The public is unpredictable.
Not according to Dr. Hari Sheldon and other pyschohistorians.
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"The public is unpredictable."
" Not according to Dr. Hari Sheldon and other pyschohistorians. "
He should make millions in the stock market.
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The public is unpredictable.
Not according to Dr. Hari Sheldon and other pyschohistorians.
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Now, there's a profession I wish I'd known about 40 years ago!
Wait! Wait! could the good doctor use an intern?
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I do approve of saving some of the old signs that had good taste in their conception in the first place
In the UK, they have started manufacturing reproductions of the old enamel signs that used to be fixed on blank walls, railway staions and the facias of shops. The "originals" - if you can find them - fetch pheee-nominal prices.
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millions in the stock market
I don't think he will concern himself with such small scale phenomena as national economies.
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the Citgo enormous pyramid … was going to be replaced.
The Citgo sign at Kenmore Square was/is a landmark in the true sense of the word. It was the first landmark we found when I first came to Boston and many of the places we visited we found by referring to it. Not that it would change Natives' directions much. They'd just replace the phrase at the Citgo sign with where the Citgo sign useta be.
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In reply to:
I don't think he will concern himself with such small scale phenomena as national economies.
I think you're probably correct, but perhaps the globalisation that is so often in the news will lead to an economy big enough to merit his interest? Thank you for getting rid of the interloper, too.  These emoticons can be quite fun.
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