Showing posts with label poll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poll. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Sad or Sadcore: Round 2

Today's round of Sad or Sadcore is brought to you by the local businesses of middle America and their reckless cleverness. Here we see some intentionally misspelled business signs. Maybe these choices are just good business sense, weird spelling draws attention and therefore more patronage, right?

SLC, Utah

Preston, Idaho

Preston, Idaho

This type of purposeful misspelling should not be confused with wordplayed business names, like the beauty parlor in Preston called Cuttin Curral. (Get it? curl/corral?)

This sad or sadcore verdict can also apply to the naming of other things, such as blogs.


So I ask you,

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Sad or Sadcore?

Here's a new little game we can play here on more than milk. I present to you some thing, and you tell me whether it's sad or sadcore. I cleverly named this game "Sad or Sadcore?" You may have heard the term sadcore in the musical context, but it has come to take on a more general meaning. Sadcore = so bad it's good. Use of sadcore is prevalent in ironic hipster fashion, exeplified by the recent mustache outbreak.


Let's try this out. The other day in Logan I found myself behind a giant pickup truck that had dangling from its tow hitch a giant chrome ballsac. Like he tore them off some naughty bull, dipped them in silver, and tied them to his truck to show the 50 other residents of Logan that he is really tough. They might have even been bigger than a bull's balls. Maybe he's a rodeo cowboy and he won the bucking elephant competition and that was his trophy? I didn't actually have time to snap a photo before he turned off into the Wal-Mart parking lot. I now realize I could have followed him and had a great shot once he parked and left his car. Oh well. A google search proves this is actually a thing.


I guess Logan dude went classy with chrome. So now you tell me, is his truck accessory just awful, or is it so awful you can't help but love it?