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Sign Twirlers
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: San Diego
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We have a phenomenon here in Southern California that I’ve seldom seen in other parts of the world. Basically, a person gets paid to stand on a street corner holding a sign advertising a business. It might be someone dancing to music while twirling the sign and wearing a costume or just someone sitting in a chair holding the sign.
I’ve always thought sign twirling was asinine, but today it reached critical mass; I was driving through an intersection where there were no less than three sign twirlers on each corner. There are so f---ing many of them that it’s starting to get embarrassing.
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: petting the refrigerator.
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In January, Scaly Dave's Pet Shop had someone drive a guy wearing a frog suit holding a giant yellow sign around in a convertible. At stop lights, the frog guy would stand on the seat and dance for people waiting in traffic. This was in January mind you, when it was a little over 30°f outside. I'm also fairly certain this was breaking the state seat belt laws.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Near Boulder, CO
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Detroit
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can't go a block in the city's burbs without seeing them here. i see easily a dozen plus on my way home from work. usually for a promotion that month or "sale".
the biggest user of this, in our area, is Liberty Tax Service. ALL locations have someone dressed as the statue of liberty at the nearest intersection of their branch holding up signs saying "the end is near". course, january through april 15th only 
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Calgary
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Not much here. Just Little Caesars. And, even then, only towards the weekend.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Originally Posted by residentEvil 
the biggest user of this, in our area, is Liberty Tax Service. ALL locations have someone dressed as the statue of liberty at the nearest intersection of their branch holding up signs saying "the end is near". course, january through april 15th only
Liberty Tax sign guys dress up as "Uncle Sam" here.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Denver, CO
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They just opened a Little Caesars down the street and the sign twirlers look ridiculous! They have one guy in the "Pizza Pizza" man suit, a guy holding a fake flimsy stringless-guitar pretending to play and someone holding a "5 dollar hot-and-ready" sign. I live in a college town so I guess if you are that desperate for Natty Light then any job will do.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Washington, DC
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I'm always surprised that Little Caesar's still exists.
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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They're real life pop ups. I just open my door and hit them as I drive by... makes a great pop up blocker.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
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The Indianapolis area has them. Mostly cell phone companies, tax companies, and Little Caesar's. The only ones that get active and dance around are the Liberty Tax guys in a Lady Liberty suit. The cell phone and Little Caesar's people just stand there listening to their MP3 payers. Personally I'd rather have them out there than another static sign. It gives someone a job, albeit an obviously low paying job, but still a job.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Detroit
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in my vicinity; in order of who has the most out doing it would be/is:
liberty tax service (for those 4 months), nail salons, hair cut places, oil change places, little caesars, k-mart, mom/pop pizza places and believe it or not...tobacco shops.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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Got 'em here too. I've seen "Miss Liberty" and Uncle Sam lately, but I've also seen mattresses. And the more common "person who wears his own clothes and holds some stupid sign on a corner near some store" types are here too. They are also frequently used for new subdivision open house events-if it's possible for such a job to get more boring, I think the subdivision angle makes it more boring than any other job of its kind.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2006
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