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August 30, 2006 |
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Panhandlers For Truth
FOUND by Rebecca Hills
in Denver, Colorado
I found this sign a block from 'The Dope House', our local head shop in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. I'm thinking it wasn't that effective since the owner decided to discard it.
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I love this one!!
Panhandlers once asked me if I could "Spare some change for LSD research?"
Obviously the author was just trying to cover his bases. They needed food and a vessel in which to prepare said food. :)
At least he/she is honest..you cant ask for much more than that
I agree with Oana. If you're going to beg for money, you may as well be honest.
yeah, about that. there's a guy here in richmond that panhandels and his schtick is his sign, which reads, "I won't lie. I want a BEER."
you'd think it would be endearing. It's not.
I saw a guy with a "I won't lie, I want a BEER" sign in San Fransisco once! I laughed, and I was like 12.
No, POT, like WEED. I love this one!
Jeez! I lived in Capitol Hill for four years, and this is the stupidest bum sign i have seen yet! I've heard that the bums in Denver are all organized under a union and that there is a boss who sets them up strategically throughout the city and provides them with signs and everything! not too sure about that one :)anyway, capitol hill is a very amusing place to reside.
when i was in college i had a couple come up to me, and the guy said 'i'm not gonna give you a big song and dance, honestly we're just trying to make enough for a six pack.'
i gave him $2.
What's anything?
I'm loving how honest this is.
I like the ones that say.
"I'll be honest: I'm spending it on beer and cigarettes."
My favorite name for a local head shop is The Joint Effort.
I don't like the sound of "the Dope House" sounds too much like a shooting gallery.
I was in Denver in October & saw the man holding this sign (or maybe not this one, but I swear it's the same!) on the way to the 16th Street Mall. AMAZING! I didn't have any cash to give him though.
gotta' give 'em points for honesty.
awwww. This reminds me of Santa Cruz, CA.
I love Santa Cruz -- people come up on the street and are honest about what they want...
But, if you go there, HIDE YOUR DOGGIE-BAGS!!!! The moment you step foot ouside someone will ask "Can I have that?" Ohhh Santa Cruz and the lovely leftover hippies who keep the practices of their youth...
and the pink umbrella man who walks slowly around... he's amazing.
I love the order of words..."for pot and food" First weed, then munchies!
My favorite part is Amanda in MN schooling all of us that Pot=weed, not pot=cooking utensil. We are really dumb to have not figured that out. It seems so obvious now.
The sign maker starts their letter O from the bottom. That strikes me as peculiar.
Also, note the capital P in POT. The top front ("bubble") part of the letter was an afterthought. It seems as though the sign maker was GOING to list FOOD first, then thought better of it, and changed the F to a P, and food to the infinitely more important POT. Interesting.
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do!
Dear missing... Yep, it does kind of sound like Canna Scruz!!
Common bumper sticker: "Keep Santa Cruz Weird"
(btw, I mis-read your meaning about "HIDE your doggie bag"... My first thought was about a doggie doo-doo bag!)
Theres some great ones I used to see here, maybe all from the same punker kid (who'd now be 30sumthin)
1.) "Spare change for my violent youth gang?"
2.) "change for hash"
3.) There was a gas meter in front of a supermarket on a busy street with two yellow steel posts filled with cement in front of the meter to keep cars from blowing it up. This guy stood on the meter with a cup hanging from a string that he held out like a fishing pole. The steel posts completed the effect that he was fishing off a pier. The sign on the cup said "fishing for change." EVERYONE gave him money. I gave $5.