Post by Chris_Wendt on May 9, 2012 14:20:22 GMT -5
If you had the pleasure of seeing Jersey Boys, you know how their group got the name "The Four Seasons". It was a sign!
Yes, an actual sign on a motel of the same name, which they spied one night and interpreted as being "a sign" from above for them to adopt their name, The Four Seasons.
Imagine if they were in Wantagh, looking for a sign...they may have been selling discount car insurance instead of crooning rock-and-roll ballads.
The latest fashion in Wantagh signage is the great big sign, and the normal sized, but comparatively much smaller-than-the-great-big-sign. I guess which size sign your lawn sports is determined by your personal degree of fealty (definition) for the cause.
We (my wife and I) were discussing this as she drove me to the station in the pouring rain today. She remarked how strange this one-sign, 2-sizes phenomenon is, given we usually had two signs on our lawn in prior years, but not now. I explained that I had seen a memo about signs this year, explaining the concept of one-sign, 2-sizes as being less expensive for the candidate and his supporters, more profitable for the sign guy, and ultimately more effective for electioneering purposes.
This clicked immediately with Sue, who told me she knew several people who had signs on their lawns but told her that their sign had nothing at all to do with how they were going to vote next Tuesday. One of those friends even had a great big sign. She had also heard that some of the smaller (normal-sized) signs indicated households where the mom had fealty to the cause, but the dad was of a different mindset.
As for the electioneering value of the one-sign, 2-size concept, I actually had a friend inform me gratuitously, that by seeing who had what sign on their lawn was helpful to that person's determining for whom they would not be voting, saving them a trip to the candidate night event. They then asked me who they should vote for, but I demurred. "Go to the candidate night and find out for yourself about these people!"
Telling people how to vote is not my responsibility. That is what great big signs are for, and I do not want to be responsible for putting a sign maker out of business, or, for unwittingly contributing to stacking the school board.
You got your fealty, you got your logic, you got your "can-do"; you got your accomplishments, your background, and your "creds" (meaning credentials, if you are one candidate, or, your credibility if your another candidate).
The one thing I got out of the whole candidate night event was I now know which one of the candidates looks you straight in the eye when speaking with you. That said a lot more to me than any sign, any size.
No, I am not telling anyone how to vote, other than 'Yes' for the budget. And I will look you right in the eye and say that!
Chris Wendt
Yes, an actual sign on a motel of the same name, which they spied one night and interpreted as being "a sign" from above for them to adopt their name, The Four Seasons.
Imagine if they were in Wantagh, looking for a sign...they may have been selling discount car insurance instead of crooning rock-and-roll ballads.
The latest fashion in Wantagh signage is the great big sign, and the normal sized, but comparatively much smaller-than-the-great-big-sign. I guess which size sign your lawn sports is determined by your personal degree of fealty (definition) for the cause.
We (my wife and I) were discussing this as she drove me to the station in the pouring rain today. She remarked how strange this one-sign, 2-sizes phenomenon is, given we usually had two signs on our lawn in prior years, but not now. I explained that I had seen a memo about signs this year, explaining the concept of one-sign, 2-sizes as being less expensive for the candidate and his supporters, more profitable for the sign guy, and ultimately more effective for electioneering purposes.
This clicked immediately with Sue, who told me she knew several people who had signs on their lawns but told her that their sign had nothing at all to do with how they were going to vote next Tuesday. One of those friends even had a great big sign. She had also heard that some of the smaller (normal-sized) signs indicated households where the mom had fealty to the cause, but the dad was of a different mindset.
As for the electioneering value of the one-sign, 2-size concept, I actually had a friend inform me gratuitously, that by seeing who had what sign on their lawn was helpful to that person's determining for whom they would not be voting, saving them a trip to the candidate night event. They then asked me who they should vote for, but I demurred. "Go to the candidate night and find out for yourself about these people!"
Telling people how to vote is not my responsibility. That is what great big signs are for, and I do not want to be responsible for putting a sign maker out of business, or, for unwittingly contributing to stacking the school board.
You got your fealty, you got your logic, you got your "can-do"; you got your accomplishments, your background, and your "creds" (meaning credentials, if you are one candidate, or, your credibility if your another candidate).
The one thing I got out of the whole candidate night event was I now know which one of the candidates looks you straight in the eye when speaking with you. That said a lot more to me than any sign, any size.
No, I am not telling anyone how to vote, other than 'Yes' for the budget. And I will look you right in the eye and say that!
Chris Wendt