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Has anyone been paid to curse on a handmade sign?

SignManiac

New Member
Actually I don't make any sign art that would include anything that might be morally offensive to the viewing public. There's always the chance that a child might accidentally be exposed to it and my religion strictly forbids me from sinning in such a manner.

I prefer to use appropriate words to convey my messages. A picture is worth several birds in the bush however.
 

GAC05

Quit buggin' me
Odd,
I read this first thing this moring before coffee and I
swear it said:
"Has anyone been paid to curse a handmade sign?"

Did someone go back an change the title?

wayne k
guam usa
 

screener24242

New Member
if you don't, the next guy will. a clear conscience doesn't keep my head on the pillow. Money in the bank does. nothing personal, just business.
 

cdiesel

New Member
I used one of my fancy dancy automatic sign painters to make some signs with a guy's wife in some rather revealing poses once. He had us put them on the side of this truck. I told him I wouldn't do it.. until she came in and asked me to.
 

TheSnowman

New Member
I haven't really been asked to do that that I can remember. I think I had a guy once want some "stuff for his car" but he had a 1980 Chevy POS, and I didn't want to waste my time dealing w/ him. The way he talked he wanted some stuff like that.

I decided long ago that I wouldn't let anything leave my shop that I had to explain to my daughter as I drove down the road that was a conversation I didn't want to have. I would like to think lots of other parents wouldn't want to have those conversations too, but my generation is a bunch of idiots...so it wouldn't surprise me if they'd love that conversation.
 

Dave Drane

New Member
if you don't, the next guy will. a clear conscience doesn't keep my head on the pillow. Money in the bank does. nothing personal, just business.

True, but it is not a good look for a long standing business. I was asked to price a skin for an Adult Shop last week which I had no problem with but using profanity on stickers signs, or shirts is something else which is not always even funny.:Coffee:
 

anotherdog

New Member
I have actually cursed both a handmade sign and the guy who ordered it.

I have done some rather bare knuckle banners for sex shows tho.
 

CheapVehicleWrap

New Member
I used one of my fancy dancy automatic sign painters to make some signs with a guy's wife in some rather revealing poses once. He had us put them on the side of this truck. I told him I wouldn't do it.. until she came in and asked me to.


Chris, that's just downright...good business strategy right there.
 

iSign

New Member
Odd,
I read this first thing this moring before coffee and I
swear it said:
"Has anyone been paid to curse a handmade sign?"

Did someone go back an change the title?

wayne k
guam usa

I think you are correct Wayne, although I clicked on it expecting a conspiracy theory of some deep pockets bribing the S101 masses to give the new guy a hard time... but at that time, the first post was the same as it is now.. so maybe the title was the same too & the reputation of the OP made us both see what we expected instead of what was there :rolleyes:
 

Craig Sjoquist

New Member
I had a porn client up north and one here for awhile the one here I painted a full dungeon with 4 pictures of poses on walls plus several pictures in other parts of store.

As far as what's seen in public NO does not want kids seeing anything near offensive.
I see alot of T-shirts with negative language plus the music and people swearing yup child's play if it gets to much or regular.
 

CheapVehicleWrap

New Member
I had a porn client up north and one here for awhile the one here I painted a full dungeon with 4 pictures of poses on walls plus several pictures in other parts of store.

As far as what's seen in public NO does not want kids seeing anything near offensive.
I see alot of T-shirts with negative language plus the music and people swearing yup child's play if it gets to much or regular.


I can see this dungeon you speak of now. sort of like when people paint their pegboard with the tools on it.
 

Freehandan

New Member
All the ones I painted were for personal jokes-
Funny, I fell asleep on the couch and woke up to a big flying tampon on the TV.
-what we are exposed to is out of our control, I guess.
As a note, there were 2 VERY LARGE billboards displaying the word 'HATE', black letters on yellow, on I95 within a 3 mile stretch of eachother about a year ago. That is bad- And on the fourth, all the T-n-T signs on I95, there were more than 10 in about a five mile strech both North and South. Take your cheap shots EYE, it don't phase me.
The content of signs is a very good subject though. As traffic is definately affected in many ways by it. It's hotter than Hell in the summer here for outside work and I would not be suprised if some even worked for digital manufacturers on here. That is a very funny comment about the title though. I laughed. An intelligent and fun razz.
A guy with a fish place that I did a mural for had me hide a little guppy in the backgroung smokin a pipe with a unit hangin down. I also superimposed a guys face on john travoltas picture in a mural lifesize in his office with extra chest-hair, gold and pilot shades. He used that to get chicks.(?I'm still amazed by that)
And a friend once was cleaning his house so when he put his matttress outside, I showed up and painted a Big V%#^% on it because i thought it was trash!!! in 3 colors! No-body could stop laughing! He was ok with it afterword!
But that's about it.
 

Jillbeans

New Member
No I have never been paid, but I have painted plenty of naughty panels for free at Letterhead meets for my friends.
Love....Jill
 

washingtonsignguy

New Member
I was asked to do a decal of the middle finger and the cross for a biker chick and told her to go somewhere else. I agree with signmaniac on this one. I am never slow enough to say that i need this job. Usually it is just one decal or one t shirt anyways, not a big customer.
 

Patrick46

New Member
maybe it's a Pacific NorthWest thing...but there are a number of pinstripers out this-a-ways that will put little stick figures running around on your pinstripe job, doing all kinds of carnal things to each other. (I can't explain it....maybe I can draw you a picture!!!) :covereyes:

Anyways...I've been asked on more than one occasion to do this to my stripe jobs. NOPE!...but I do put a tiny, tiny rat on a surfboard or a chopper on my stripe jobs. (My own little 'homage' to Ed Roth)...and when people find them, they get a nice little chuckle out of it.


But I've seen these guys put them all over their stripe jobs! Now...if you've got some old 4x4 beater pick-up...fine, put 'em on that...but these guys will put them on mom's family sedan!!!??? :omg: And guess who finds these little stick figures??.....you got it, the kids!!!! :frustrated:

Way ta go! Great job fellas!!! :banghead:
 
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