dance, monkey, dance

[rone]

Somewhere, there's a person who's responsible for all the poor fools dancing on street corners, swinging and spinning arrow-shaped signs that almost always seem to be advertising some goddamned condos.  And when i'm king, i will find that person and i will have them abused, ridiculed, and humiliated to the full extent of the law.

Comments

[elibalin.livejournal.com]

I saw one of those people here in NYC, on the corner of 33rd and Broadway, a busy intersection filled with pedestrians who might get decapitated and cars which might suffer shattered windshields by way of an ineptly-wielded pointy sign.

The sign, as far as I could tell, was advertising arrow-shaped signs intended for twirling by dancing hucksters.

[tskirvin.livejournal.com]

So this is fairly new? I just figured it was a California thing. A horribly degrading, evil California thing.

They let the corner guys rest in Illinois.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I think it's been around for a couple of years. I've been meaning to bitch about it in this here journal for a while and kept forgetting.

an excuse to use my icon, really

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

This is not as bad as it gets for these poor chumps. This guy isn't wearing a gorilla suit, and it's not summer. Yes, I have seen this.

[missionista.livejournal.com]

I like how you think--OK, you can be king.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

You got my vote, or assistance in slaying whatever relative necessary in order for you to claim your rightful crown.

Here they can be seen for cheap homes, pizza places, tattoo shops, comic book roleplaying game nerd emporiums, and banks that have no dignity.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

You know, I never saw these guys at all on the East Coast... Could it be that it's too cold? But they weren't out in the summer, either... I also figured it was a California Thing.

Is there some kind of law that makes it cheaper to have a guy with an arrow on a streetcorner than to put up a sign there? Or maybe signs like that are illegal for some reason, or need a license, but a dude with an arrow doesn't? It's weird.

And yeah, they're almost always real estate. Condos, open houses, any damn thing...

[twillis.livejournal.com]

Around here it seems to be limited to guys dressed as the Statue of Libery and Uncle Sam at tax time.

[dpk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we've got them all over here. Some areas have laws limiting sign waving (I remember hearing a story about limits on the speed they can spin and the angles they can move).

It's disturbing that someone would decide to buy a $X00,000 condo because someone obnoxious was holding up an obnoxious sign.

"For example, in the Pacific Iris development in Moreno Valley, nearly 8 percent of the 3,600 people who toured the model homes through October indicated on a survey that they had found the site through human directionals, said Melissa White, marketing coordinator for Newport Beach-based Pacific Communities."

May I suggest throwing those 8% in the stocks, your majesty?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

The stocks are too good for the likes of them.

[divisadero.livejournal.com]

I would support you in this effort.

[stega.livejournal.com]

will your scepter be arrow shaped?

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

Shut up before you introduce some Australian fuckstick marketer to the concept!

[motis.livejournal.com]

"And when i'm king, i will find that person and i will have them abused, ridiculed, and humiliated to the full extent of the law."

Only to the full extent of the law?

Please write some new laws first, so the perp can have a nice big heavy steel arrow superglued to his hands reading "THROW NINJA STARS".

I see the sign-twirlers all over the country when I'm out in the big rig. The whole idea of using a person as a signpost is just astonishingly dehumanizing. It's like hiring someone to be your bicycle or your toilet.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yes, writing new laws is clearly the subtext that i so clearly implied.

And i agree wholeheartedly with the dehumanization. "Dance, monkey, dance" wasn't merely used for its catchiness.

[motis.livejournal.com]

Contrary to popular belief, I actually am capable of heartily agreeing with other people. I'm just not very good at it because it happens so infrequently.

Carry on.

why do you hate freedom????

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

Clearly you god hating america bashers have never been willing to accept the great economic marvels that allow people the glorious carREAR OPPOTUNITIES to be a person information distribution facilitator!!!!

What you need to do is learn the glorious of the glorious free market life of the new world economic order!!!

ANYTHING LESS AND THE TERRORISTS WIN!!!!

The Royal We

[nerdsholmferret.livejournal.com]

I saw someone on the Metro today who was wearing clothing adorned with a "weRone" label. I don't have to tell you what IRTA.