"Can We Have Our Ball Back?"-76 Gas Ball Signs Going Away

BBC News(?) ^ | 02/21/06 | Chris Vallance

[GrandEagle]

"Save My Ball"
Can't you just see this guy carrying this sign around outside their corporate office?

[Westlander]

76 moved out of Michigan many years ago. Same for Texaco. Brings back memories.

[Servant of the 9]

"Save My Ball"

Can't you just see this guy carrying this sign around outside their corporate office?

Or even better.

"GIVE MY BALLS BACK"

And why are they blaming it on Texas?
It's still a publicly traded company isn't it?

So9

[GSWarrior]

Is Sinclair still around? The dino was cool.

[Cagey]

I wouldn't mind getting my Flying A back.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Yet one mystery remains: Where are the missing balls?

ING ??

[mhx]

I've got a styrofoam 76 ball on my car antenna.

They're not taking it away from me.

[HeadOn]

Believe it or not, I still see a Sinclair sign every once in a while. Usually in rural areas. (I live in Tennessee, and often drive in Mississippi and Alabama.)

One of my fondest memories as a kid is my parents buying me an inflatable Sinclair dinosaur one time when we filled up the car. Simple times.

[Red Badger]

Aerosmith had a gas company?.......

[ghost of nixon]

"I have a fantasy that there's some kind of ball repository,"

...yeah, don't we all

[alloysteel]

Cities Service disappeared. Deep Rock disappeared. Sinclair disappeared. Humble disappeared. Either these companies were bought out, or simply recast their logos.

Cities Service became "Citgo", Deep Rock became Kerr-McGee, Sinclair mutated into ARCO, Humble was absorbed by Esso or Standard or somebody.

I always wondered about "Humble Oil". That had to be a PR ploy, could you imagine any refiner caling themselves "Arrogant Oil Company"?

[B-Chan]

Sinclair is still very much around, and it's not affiliated with any other refiner or distributor. (ARCO was absorbed by Chevron, by the way)

[sheik yerbouty]

"Got Balls?"

[Feiny]

I'm ever upper class high society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all

CHORUS:
I've got big balls
I've got big balls
And they're such big balls
Dirty big balls
And he's got big balls
And she's got big balls
But we've got the biggest balls of them all

And my balls are always bouncing
My ballrooms always full
And everybody cums and cums again
If your name is on the guest list
No one can take you higher
Everybody says I've got
Great balls of fire

CHORUS
I've got big balls
I've got big balls
And they're such big balls
Dirty big balls
And he's got big balls
And she's got big balls
But we've got the biggest balls of them all

Some balls are held for charity
And some for fancy dress
But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best
My balls are always bouncing
To the left and to the right
It's my belief that my big balls
Should be held every night

CHORUS
I've got big balls
I've got big balls
And they're such big balls
Dirty big balls
And he's got big balls
And she's got big balls
But we've got the biggest balls of them all

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Sinclair Oil is now owned by a guy in Salt Lake City. They have refineries in Tulsa, OK, Casper and Rawlins, WY.

[GrandEagle]

LOL!
I have no idea why they blame it on Texas. Just as good as any scapegoat I guess....

GE

[lowbridge]

"Can We Have Our Ball Back?"-

"NO!!!!"

Was the answer from the old crone who lived next door to the schoolyard into whose yard, over the fence, I accidentally tossed the ball.

[commish]

LOL -- I looked at the title and thought it said "Can We Have Our Balls Back" and immediately thought it was a story about the Republican Congressional Leadership.

[Kenton]

"We would be mortified if by Halloween - when traditionally the station owners decorate their balls as smiling pumpkins - they're all gone."

That would indeed be a sight to behold...

do they decorate their penises as happy little autumn gourds, I wonder?