Much has been made lately about the wisdom of crowds. While we don’t exactly disagree about the merit of crowd-sourced savvy, we prefer the outliers and unexpected sources when it comes to certain kinds of signs. In fact, we find the well-placed and clever – or shocking! or absurd! – bar sign such a sweet little stamp of literary, anti-hero real estate that we felt it merited its own post.
And with the world being what it is today – a veritable mashup of real and digital locales – we thought we’d include some of the better drinks-themed social posts we’ve seen, too. Whether it’s an Instaquote, a bizarrely funny roadside-sign-turned-Facebook-pearl or just a totally rockin’ wall sign in a *wayward* watering hole, this type of specimen has the potential to register some serious LOLs in the booze signage pantheon. With no further ado!
The brill J.D. Salinger
Listen up kids:
If you’re wondering why on earth we are featuring a pic of respected American scribe J.D. Salinger in this montage, well – we’ll enlighten you. Goodreads tells us that we can attribute this choice quotation on signage to none other than the author of Catcher in the Rye:
“If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the ‘Fuck you’ signs in the world. It’s impossible.” – J.D. Salinger
Indeed, it does seem that the phrase pops up a fair amount in some of the finer bar signage we’ve witnessed – cue creative scrawls on bar bathroom stalls (“fuck you cosmo haterz” or perhaps something of a more personal bent, with a little self-loathing tossed in for good measure, such as “FML this bar/life/YOU suK”). Or something like that. Anyhow, we’re glad that *bad* signage has been 1) validated and 2) excused (sort of) by this respected fine American.
PS We see your having read to this point as a *sign* that you’re incredibly awesome. We mean “see” not in an Ace of Base kind of way (FTR we’re cooler than that) – but in a we-recognize-that whiskey is your spirit animal, Hunter S. Thompson is your BFF clearly kind of way. You’re possibly wayward, but inspired. i.e.: We think J.D. Salinger would NOT tell you to fuck off, generally.
Yours, affectionately, DrinkCode.
– Courtney Cochran
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