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Fit happens as parents raise stink over septic man’s slogan
Boston Herald/Milford Daily News ^ | 10/05/05 | Rick Holland

Posted on 10/05/2005 12:23:07 PM PDT by raccoonradio

MEDWAY (MA) – For parents of elementary school students here, a slogan for a nearby business stinks.

A Medway man's septic-system service boasts about his work with the words ``(Expletive) happens'' on trucks.

``It's not something I'd want my granddaughter to see,'' said Beverly Rechle, the grandmother of a McGovern Elementary School student.

But they do see it all day long as the trucks pull in and out across from the entrance to the school.

``I don't think it's a good thing for my son to read,'' said Debbie Lawton, mom to a first-grader. ``If he saw it, I'm sure he'd say, `How come I can't say that word, but the truck can?' ''

The school's principal, Wendy Rocha, said the foul language on the trucks had not been brought to her attention until now.

The owner of the business, Paul Trufant, said he's not cleaning up his potty talk, as one parent called it.

``This is America, not Iraq . . . it's freedom of speech,'' Trufant said ``There are so many pedophiles out there, why aren't (parents) more worried about pedophiles?''

You could say, criticism happens.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bostonherald; pottytalk; vulgarity
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To: RockinRight

Oh jeeze now I can't get that image out of my mind.... stop it!


61 posted on 10/05/2005 1:09:38 PM PDT by Khepera (Do not remove by penalty of law!)
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To: RockinRight

Sharon got married! Now she's Sharon Peters. ;)


62 posted on 10/05/2005 1:10:44 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Khepera

Every freedom comes with a cost - normally in the form of consequences. Free speech [or behavior, or whatever] could be defined as one with no cost at all, or with negligible cost. Alternatively, everything is free for those who can [and want to] afford the consequences. Try to find a middle ground, which does not exist.


63 posted on 10/05/2005 1:12:21 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: RockinRight

At least you got to hear it even if your mom wouldn't let you go.


64 posted on 10/05/2005 1:15:15 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (People too weak to follow their own dreams, will always find a way to discourage yours.)
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To: GSlob

Free speech [or behavior, or whatever] could be defined as one with no cost at all, or with negligible cost.

NOPE, Try again.


65 posted on 10/05/2005 1:29:42 PM PDT by Khepera (Do not remove by penalty of law!)
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To: Serb5150

There used to be an auto radiator repair place here that had the slogan "Best place in town to take a leak"


66 posted on 10/05/2005 1:32:16 PM PDT by Pessimist
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To: Xenalyte

LOL!!

Mike Hunt
Phil McCrevis
Hugh G. Rection


67 posted on 10/05/2005 1:33:54 PM PDT by RockinRight (Why are there so many RINOs?)
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To: Maximus of Texas

Man, that guy had the best possible advertising idea I can imagine.


68 posted on 10/05/2005 1:34:15 PM PDT by Pessimist
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To: wideawake
Sign seen outside of a radiator repair shop in Holliston, MA:

"A good place to take a leak".

69 posted on 10/05/2005 1:35:08 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (From now on, my only retort to any taunt from a Yankees fan is this: "Gaaaaak. 4 straight.")
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To: Pessimist

It would be fun to be sitting at a light and reading the newspaper in that thing.


70 posted on 10/05/2005 1:35:38 PM PDT by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, unleash hell.)
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To: Serb5150

I pass by this one every day:

CULVER CITY MEAT
"You can't beat our meat"


71 posted on 10/05/2005 1:35:59 PM PDT by Feiny (When does mama get to hang somebody?)
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To: RockinRight
``This is America, not Iraq . . . it's freedom of speech,''

I'm sure my 14 year old would of laughed at it
but does it have to be on the side of a truck?
I'm just askin....
72 posted on 10/05/2005 1:36:42 PM PDT by PaulaB (So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye....)
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To: raccoonradio
There is a carpet and flooring store near here...their motto...

We lay only the best.

Their installer's t-shirts are quite popular with the HS crowd.

73 posted on 10/05/2005 1:36:54 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Shiny things distract me :))
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To: raccoonradio

One waste removal company I know of has a painted logo on the side of the trucks holding tank naming the vehicle the "Stool Bus".


74 posted on 10/05/2005 1:36:54 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: RockinRight

I took last season off and worked in a friend's booth, but made myself a character anyway - a Scottish lass named Philomena McGregor McKenzie McCracken.

If she liked you, she'd let you call her Phil. ;)


75 posted on 10/05/2005 2:05:21 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Squantos; Eaker

*Ping* [Automotive]


76 posted on 10/05/2005 2:09:09 PM PDT by PoorMuttly (A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun -T.Jefferson)
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To: Pessimist; feinswinesuksass

Thanks for the submissions... They both got a laugh out of me, I am a very immature individual.


77 posted on 10/05/2005 2:15:35 PM PDT by Serb5150 (This is my fire escape, not yours.)
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To: Xenalyte

My alias is: Carry Meimdrunk

or Anita Beigcoch


78 posted on 10/05/2005 2:38:12 PM PDT by Feiny (When does mama get to hang somebody?)
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To: Serb5150
A picture is worth a thousand words.


79 posted on 10/05/2005 2:40:25 PM PDT by Feiny (When does mama get to hang somebody?)
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To: feinswinesuksass

Wasn't that the slogan of Pauly's meat business in Rocky?


80 posted on 10/05/2005 2:48:07 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("My Gov'nor don't got the answer")
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