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“I THINK THAT I SHALL NEVER SEE A BILLBOARD LOVELY AS A TREE” WROTE THE LATE, GREAT, OGDEN NASH. FLO WHITAKER AGREES – THERE ARE FAR TOO MANY SIGNS IN THE WORLD, AND MANY OF THEM ARE UTTERLY RIDICULOUS
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Signs, signs, signs…the Antiquarian & secondhand books purchased on world is full of signs – all subjects including academic, sporting, military, you can’t move for ‘em. literature, scientific, natural history, travel, polar regions and maps, documents, ephemera etc. Many are badly worded, ambiguous or downright 1st Floor, 6-7 Cecil Square, Margate, Kent, C Tel: 01843 wrong. Aggressive signs in Email: info@communitya www.communitya FOR OUTSTANDING VALUE car parks that shout, ‘We are not COPY FOR YOUR APPROVAL AND EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE 1st Floor, 6-7 Cecil Square, Margate, Kent, CT9 1BD liable for any damage whatsoever to your vehicle’ Tel: 01843 834160 Email: info@communityad.co.uk www.communityad.co.uk Sexton’s, are a particular bugbear of mine. So, if their poorly TRUST HASTINGS MOTOR CARE FOR APPROVAL Tel:YOUR 01323 870991 booksellers since 1910. COPY maintained wall collapses onto your car – they’re not 1st Floor, 6-7 Cecil Square, Margate, Kent, CT9 1BD Tel: 01843 834160 An Independent Family Run Business Email: info@communityad.co.uk responsible? Hmmm… www.communityad.co.uk COPY FOR YOUR APPROVAL However, fruit ‘n’ veg signs featuring the greengrocer’s apostrophe and wacky spellings are 1st Floor, 6-7 Cecil Square, Margate, Kent, CT9 1BD Call: 01424 461309 Tel: 01843 834160 Email: info@communityad.co.uk guaranteed to make me smile. You can never have www.communityad.co.uk www.hastingsmotorcare.co.uk irs COPY FOR YOUR APPROVAL too many carrott’s, tomatoe’s and lettise’s pa e R 1st Floor, 6-7 Cecil Square, Margate, Kent, CT9 1BD Signs can be unintentionally hilarious. One, spotted Tel: 01843 834160 Email: info@communityad.co.uk n www.communityad.co.uk www.hastingsmotorcare.co.uk rco in a Brighton store read, ‘Refunds, exchanges and Ai COPY FOR YOUR APPROVAL baby changing’ conjuring an image of an exhausted, Call: 01424 461 309 MOTs & OT M GENERAL REPAIRS sleep deprived parent, sobbing, “It’s faulty… It www.hastingsmotorcare.co.uk FOR OUTSTANDING VALUE ng keeps crying and pooing… I want another one!” as AND EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE ici v r Call: 01424 461 309 TRUST HASTINGS MOTOR CARE Se a stroppy customer services operative replies, “Have An Independent Family Run Business www.hastingsmotorcare.co.uk you read our Terms and Conditions? Did you keep s re Ty Call: 01424 461 309 the receipt?” Call: 01424 461 309 Then there’s the sign that hung in the kitchen of APPROVED FOR PRE IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE STUDIO PROOF www.hastingsmotorcare.co.uk Should you require any amendments, please indicate them a community hall; ‘Please rinse out milk bottles and PROOF DATE/TIME: October am it to us together with this clearly on 8the copy2020 and9:59 return form within next Autocare 5 working days Thank you OUR FILENAME: Nov 20the Hastings services 1-8 stand upside-down in the sink.’ No offence to the Call: 01424 461 309 APPROVED FOR PRESS IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE Over 90s Salsa Jive Class, but, frankly, that’s a trick www.hastingsmotorcare.co.uk Should you require any amendments, please indicate them clearly on the copy and return it to us together with this that only an Olympic gymnast could manage. Milk form within the next 5 working days Thank you Call: 01424 461 309 APPROVED FOR PRESS bottles, eh? Remember them? IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE Should you require any amendments, please indicate them I recently purchased a loaf bearing a label, ‘Sliced clearly on the copy and return it to us together with this form within the next 5 working days Thank you by your baker.’ This piffling nonsense was doubtless dreamt up by a graduate from the University of the APPROVED FOR PRESS IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE Should you require any amendments, please indicate them Blimmin’ Obvious, who probably trousered a hefty clearly on the copy and return it to us together with this form within the next 5 working days Thank you fee for their marketing brilliance. It’s bread, stupid! APPROVED FOR PRESS IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE Who else do you suppose sliced it? A gynaecologist? Should you require any amendments, please indicate them clearly on the copy and return it to us together with this Good grief! form within the next 5 working days Thank you
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regarding any artwork, either by email, telephone or post. In the event we do not hear from you within 5 working days of receipt of your artwork, SIGNED we will assume all is correct and approved for press. Company No: 7404427 • VAT No: 990360412 All advertisements, artwork and associated images, unless supplied by the advertiser or their representatives, are the property of Community Ad Web Ltd and may not be reproduced in any
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regarding any artwork, either by email, telephone or post. In the event we do not hear from you within 5 working days of receipt of your artwork, we will assume all is correct and approved for press. Company No: 7404427 • VAT No: 990360412 All advertisements, artwork and associated images, unless supplied by the advertiser or their representatives, are the property of Community Ad Web Ltd and may not be reproduced in any
SIGNED willCare) remain the intellectual property of Community Ad Web Ltd and may not be reproduced in any format or 1used in any other publications REF RCCM03-027 (Hastings Motor SIZE 1/4 DATE 03/08/2020 DRAFT GT without the prior written consent of the Publisher. NOTES
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regarding any artwork, either by email, telephone or post. In the event we do not hear from you within 5 working days of receipt of your artwork, we will assume all is correct and approved for press. Company No: 7404427 • VAT No: 990360412 SIGNED All advertisements, artwork and associated images, unless supplied by the advertiser or their representatives, are the property of Community Ad Web Ltd and may not be reproduced in any
will remain the intellectual property of Community Ad Web Ltd and may not be reproduced in any format or usedDATE in any other publications without the prior written consent of the Publisher.
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regarding any artwork, either by email, telephone or post. In the event we do not hear from you within 5 working days of receipt of your artwork, we will assume all is correct and approved for press. Company No: 7404427 • VAT No: 990360412 All advertisements, artwork and associated images, unless supplied by the advertiser or their representatives, are the property of Community Ad Web Ltd and may not be reproduced in any
will remain the intellectual property of Community Ad Web Ltd and may not be reproduced in any format or used in any other publications without the prior written consent of the Publisher.
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