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Badass Sign of the Day

Posted on: October 23, 2009 9:30 AM, by Ed Brayton

Here's an even better sign from the gay rights march a couple weeks ago than the first one.

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Somebody has some graphic design talent. Nicely done.

Posted by: MikeMa | October 23, 2009 10:11 AM

whether you agree or not this is funny

Posted by: eve | October 23, 2009 10:13 AM

Spot on! Écrasez l'infâme! (Voltaire)

Posted by: Pastor Bentonit | October 23, 2009 11:34 AM

My inner punctuation pedant notes that he has missed out the apostrophe from can't.

Posted by: JohnM55 | October 23, 2009 1:33 PM

I saw that one when I was at the march and it made me chuckle.

Posted by: Tony P | October 23, 2009 1:56 PM

Tony P,
A lot of signs from the march were linked on an earlier thread, many of them well done. I hope the efforts are well rewarded.

Posted by: MikeMa | October 23, 2009 2:33 PM

This is only tangentially related to the post, but god, I miss "Arrested Development."

Posted by: Sadie Morrison | October 23, 2009 2:34 PM

This would have been so much better if the dumbass could punctuate.

Posted by: Daniel Kolle | October 23, 2009 6:36 PM

Hmmm ... perhaps he meant:

cant¹ /kænt/ [kant]
–noun 1. insincere, esp. conventional expressions of enthusiasm for high ideals, goodness, or piety.
2. the private language of the underworld.
3. the phraseology peculiar to a particular class, party, profession, etc.: the cant of the fashion industry.
4. whining or singsong speech, esp. of beggars.
–verb (used without object) 5. to talk hypocritically.
6. to speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar; beg.
Origin:
1495–1505; from L base cant- in cantus song, canticus singsong, etc., whence OE cantere singer, cantic song; see chant
Synonyms:
1. hypocrisy, sham, pretense, humbug.

cant²
–noun 1. a salient angle.
2. a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing.
3. a slanting or tilted position.
4. an oblique line or surface, as one formed by cutting off the corner of a square of cube.
5. an oblique or slanting face of anything.
6. Civil Engineering. bank 1 (def. 6).
7. a sudden pitch or toss.
8. Also called flitch. a partly trimmed log.
–adjective 9. oblique or slanting.
–verb (used with object) 10. to bevel; form an oblique surface upon.
11. to put in an oblique position; tilt; tip.
12. to throw with a sudden jerk.
–verb (used without object) 13. to take or have an inclined position; tilt; turn.
Origin:
1325–75; ME: side, border from AF cant, OF chant from a Rom base *cantu(m) with the related senses “rim, border” and “angle corner,” prob. from Celtic; cf. L cant(h)us iron tire (from Celtic), Welsh cant periphery, rim, felloe; prob. not akin to Gk kanthós corner of the eye; cf. canteen, cantle, canton