Posted on 02/23/2007 7:37:36 PM PST by SmithL
Seattle (AP) A newly opened store catering to very pampered dogs, especially female dogs, is getting more than questioning looks for its name, High Maintenance Bitch.
The third word in the sign is widely visible at North 45th Street and Wallingford Avenue North, one of the main intersections in the Wallingford neighborhood business west of Interstate 5 and north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
"I am probably the most progressive liberal person in the world and I am personally offended by the sign," said Janet Stillman, executive director of the Wallingford Neighborhood Office. "It's so blatant and so in your face."
The sign is the issue more than products such as Gel-ous Bitch bath gel and Street Walker paw cleanser, said Kara Ceriello, co-president of the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce.
Ceriello said she supports the store but has heard complaints from about a dozen people.
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I think jokes are on the way now, with many fellows thinking of their ex-girlfriends/wives.
"I am probably the most progressive liberal person in the world and I am personally offended by the sign,"
Um, hate to break it to ya lady, but "progressive liberal" people are usually the ones most easily offended by anything!
most progressive liberal persons are easily offended
"A thing is, what it is." -Aristotle
I think it's funny.
"The sign is the issue more than products such as Gel-ous Bitch bath gel and Street Walker paw cleanser, said Kara Ceriello, co-president of the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce."
ROTFLMAO!
"Bitch" is a perfectly good English word for a female dog.
All these people are doing is demonstrating their ignorance.
Would these folks be outraged if the store had the word, "Doe" in it? How about "Mare"? "Ewe"? "Cow"? "Vixen"?
That doesn't seem so bad to me. But then I breed Shih Tzu and have a few bitches in the house. I know people love to spend money on those little dogs. lmao ~P~
You forgot step mothers. LOL
It all began five years ago, when Boston terrier Lola inspired Lori Pacchiano and her brother to make pet feather boas in their grandmother's North Seattle garage. (February 22, 2007) Credit: Gilbert W. Arias/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The P I articleincludes the info Five companies in Washington, including High Maintenance Bitch, have the word in their names, including Bimbo's Bitchin' Burrito Kitchen LLC, according to the secretary of state's corporations database.
Anybody here know where Bimbo's is located?
It's certainly not close to the genre of the pornographic bakery that used to be up on 85th..... 'Marzitarts' I think it was called.
It is clever and the "bitches" I sell puppies to would love a store like that. I have women who actually call me to ask if I have a dog that looks like them. I say well since I have no clue what you look like I can't tell you... I find that women like that & their husbands love these little dogs and buy them jeweled collars and all kinds of bs. It totally amazes me. I just hope they keep selling so well. Why anyone would want to look like a Shih Tzu is beyond me...And NO I don't look like my dogs. rofl...~P~
LOL, I love it. I don't know what she is offended about. It's a dog store, and a bitch is a female dog. Good gravy, if it offends her so much, I hope she never watches a dog show. Her head may explode.
I guess I don't get what's so offensive about this. A female dog is a bitch, idiots! I think it's very clever and I hope they do well.
I'll bet the sign reminded her of exactly what she is. Those kinds of women usually are.
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