Dotty Parker

bake for the fair

When BellyRub was living here, he and I would go places together. The way friends do, you know?

At any rate, there was a sign every year that looked like this:

BellyRub took me by one of these signs and giggled and pointed. "Check it out! 'Bake for the fair!' That's awesome!" Then we giggled together.

Since "getting baked" is another way of saying "getting high on marijuana" we thought this was very funny. Did the people making the sign know what they were doing? I'm sure someone did, but I bet lots of little old ladies didn't realize what they were advocating.

In a similarly perverse way, the sign outside the Varna Community Association has a sex sign. I mentioned it to a former board of directors member (I figured she could handle the question..I didn't want to ask some people) and she laughed. She said she'd never thought of it. But now she would think of it every time she saw the sign.

I wonder if it would be appropriate to have these things pointed out to the folks who make signs for these community affairs. Perhaps I will set up shop and request a nominal fee for proofreading for blatant errors such as these.

The problem with this, however, is that I don't know all the cool things. Nope. So I could be making mistakes just as large. Of course, the people who are paying me wouldn't know that, would they?

Posted by dotty at September 8, 2004 04:45 PM