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Old 01-05-2022, 05:46 PM   #1
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I first saw this sign in a snowmobile repair shop 40 years ago :


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This one was in a front yard outside Franklin IN. Private sign! Do not read!
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I have seen that sign on US 31 south of Franklin. It always makes me smile.
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Engraved on a buddy's Zipo in a different world "We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, to do the unnecessary, for the ungrateful".


And from a sign in an outboard repair shop at the old site 6 now Lake Havasu,
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On the wall behind the cash register in the filling station where I worked as a teenager: " In God we trust-all others pay cash".
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Engraved on a buddy's Zippo in a different world "We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, to do the unnecessary, for the ungrateful".
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