Posted on 07/31/2009 9:34:16 AM PDT by Born Conservative
If YOU’RE going to put up a sign with that message, you really should use the correct spelling.
There are freepers who think that Gates was not engaged in disorderly conduct. Maybe so, maybe not. But I'm thinking that US police depts are fairly consistent on this point and that it is not a racial matter.
AAAAGH! I really hate that! Misspelled words are one of my many peeves anyway, but if you’re going to make a sign like this, for cryin’ out loud, spell it correctly! It kind of loses impact...
I’ll gladly stay the course on this one. Tastless? Check. Crude & Rude? Sure. Off-putting and alienating? Yep. Disorderly to the point of being an arrestable offense? I don’t think so.
By posting his crap where anyone can see it, he is potentially showing it to my grand children. An ass kicking by an irate parent might be in order and I hope I am on that ass kicking parent's jury.
Agreed. It was totally without ‘tast’.
oy vey!
I don’t think his truck was vandalized because of the citation. I think it was vandalized because of the message on his truck, coupled with the character of those it offended.
It is why I don’t have conservative messages on my car here in the Seattle area.
Looked better in the original French.
Si vous êtes en France et ne pouvez pas parler français, obtenez le F#@K dehors
I think disorderly conduct is a catch all. If they want to take someone in, if nothing else there’s always that.
Ahaha. I should turn the spell-check back on. Or pay more attentiuon. But thanks for taking the point and making a joke ;>
“attentioun” was meant to be a poor joke. Sorry. I forgot my humor rarely translates to cyber-world.
Pic in the linked previous thread indicates that “you’re” is correctly spelled.
Seems that the writer is the one at fault.
LOL!
There is a pic at the article link from the newspaper that shows the sign, and “you’re” is spelled correctly. However, I seem to remember that initially it was spelled “your”, he was chastised for it on local talk radio, and corrected it.
Well sed Mon Friar
or something furrin sound’n.
Quite clever, actually.
I think he was using the sign as a conversation starter for meeting people of similar background. In that case the misspelling works fine. If someone can't speak English, they probably can't read it either.
The "disturbing the peace" and "disorderly conduct" laws need to be tossed and rewritten more precisely. They are so broad and subjective they are the tools of a police state.
Just trying to have a little fun on Friday.
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