Posted on 01/10/2025 8:11:05 AM PST by Miami Rebel
The first thing Benjamin Jackson did upon arriving in Vancouver on Wednesday morning after spending the holidays in Hamilton was change the marquee outside The Penthouse strip club, where he works as bar manager.
“As soon as I dropped my bags at home, I walked straight to the club to update the sign around 2 a.m.”
During his layover in Toronto, the 43-year-old spent time watching the news and brainstorming his next sign idea. What he didn’t know was that his late-night inspiration would make headlines of its own.
Jackson changed the letters on the marquee to spell out: “Forever neighbours, never neighbors.” The message — highlighting the difference in the way Canadians and Americans spell certain words — was a swipe at U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s repeated suggestion that Canada could become the 51st state.
Within hours, an image of the new sign posted to the strip club’s X account was flagged as potentially hateful content, resulting in the account, @ThePenthouse604, being suspended that night.
“I was blown away,” he said Thursday.
Originally from Ontario, Jackson has worked at the Penthouse since 2015. These days, he is also the social media manager.
For the past seven years, he has climbed a ladder outside the downtown club at 1019 Seymour St. each month to craft a new one-liner that is limited to 40 characters on its marquee.
While some of his messages have earned the business widespread acclaim on social media, others have sparked controversy.
“It all started as me trying to make my friends at work laugh,” Jackson said.
In 2017, after creating a message outside the Penthouse that read: “We take off more than WestJet,” the Canadian airline sent the club a cease-and-desist letter, demanding that the public proclamation be taken down.
Where do these snowflakes come from?
Answer - Snowflakes come from a deep dark smelly liberal orifice approximately 32” above the ground.
Wikipedia is your friend:
Most words ending in an unstressed ‑our in British English (e.g., behaviour, colour, favour, flavour, harbour, honour, humour, labour, neighbour, rumour, splendour) end in ‑or in American English (behavior, color, favor, flavor, harbor, honor, humor, labor, neighbor, rumor, splendor). Wherever the vowel is unreduced in pronunciation (e.g., devour, contour, flour, hour, paramour, tour, troubadour, and velour), the spelling is uniform everywhere.
I get the spelling, I don’t get the meaning.
Heh. I’d expect that response from a libertarian.
The meaning is that Canadians want to maintain their independence, and part of that is their distinct identity, which includes vocabulary and spelling.
The issue isn’t what an imdividual Freeper calls himself, it’s what MUSK called himself when he went about buying (under legal pressure) Twitter.
What does “Free Speech Absolutist” mean to you?
still doesn’t make sense understanding what he was attempting to convey. I guess he could have used more than 40 characters.
I’m sure the town librarian had a good laugh.
“still doesn’t make sense understanding what he was attempting to convey”
My bet is that he was saying he likes being Canadian and is in no rush to become American. Does that make sense to you?
If you need to interpret the meaning, or what he meant, it didn't work. He should have simply said "No to being the 51st state" or something similar.
I haven’t heard any Canadian say that they’d like Canada to become part of the US.
When Canadian individuals want to become American, it seems they just come here and commence jumping through the hoops to do that.
Meaning they do not want to be part of America...inferred with the spelling difference. It is a play on words.
That’s not cutesy enough for a marquee...
And a lousy one on that.
The guy needs to consult the NY Post, they write succinct and cutesy lines that make sense.
They can use more letters...:-)
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-elon-musk-a-libertarian-ADlrQLo5R1eEfQzCM1TITw
Musk is no SoCon. Many of his values and beliefs and liberal. Many are conservative.
I make of Musk the same way you do.
And as far as your question.... I don’t know. Define it and I’ll let you know what it means.
This marquee has received international attention, largely due to the club’s account getting suspended by Musk.
I’d say that the payoff for the marquee has been astronomical.
“I wouldn’t mind if Trump annexed Canada if he could do it without the Canadians”
Get only the Western, Far North, and Atlantic providences.
Leave the Liberal Eastern providences (Ontario and Québec)to rot on their own.
“If you need to interpret the meaning, or what he meant, it didn’t work.”
𝑰 needed no interpretation, and I’m not even Canadian.
And whether or not the joke landed for you, the real issue is that X, that bastion of free speech, saw fit to suspend an account over what is at worst a lame joke.
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