This isn't the best thing in the world, but I wanted to participate in this week's theme since I love retro signs, posters, etc even if I'm a little late. To explain this saying, there really is a sign on a "scenic byway" in rural Kentucky when I travel home from near Louisville to visit family an hour away. It really says this, but it's just script, no pictures or other graphic elements. No one really seems to know what it means by not renting pigs! We think maybe when people needed ponds, they would maybe rent local pigs to tamp down the ground...it keeps the ponds from leaking the water. We're not really sure what the heck it means. Feel free to leave a comment, especially if you can clarify what "we don't rent pigs" might mean! :) (I do know it was on a sign in Lonesome Dove.)
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Retro Sign
This isn't the best thing in the world, but I wanted to participate in this week's theme since I love retro signs, posters, etc even if I'm a little late. To explain this saying, there really is a sign on a "scenic byway" in rural Kentucky when I travel home from near Louisville to visit family an hour away. It really says this, but it's just script, no pictures or other graphic elements. No one really seems to know what it means by not renting pigs! We think maybe when people needed ponds, they would maybe rent local pigs to tamp down the ground...it keeps the ponds from leaking the water. We're not really sure what the heck it means. Feel free to leave a comment, especially if you can clarify what "we don't rent pigs" might mean! :) (I do know it was on a sign in Lonesome Dove.)
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Ya.. I was going to say its from lonesome dove... nice work!
Lonesome Dove, as many will recall, is the story of two former Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call , who run the Hat Creek Cattle Company, a ranch on the banks of the Rio Grande. The story follows their adventures in first stealing and then driving a herd of cattle north from Texas with the intention of setting up a cattle ranch in Montana. A weatherbeaten sign at the Hat Creek Cattle Company Ranch reads:
Hat Creek Cattle Company & Livery Emporium. Captain Augustus McCrae and Captain W. F. Call Proprietors. For Rent Horses -- For Sale Cattle. We Don't Rent Pigs -- Goats Neither. Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit
I suspect it's a joke. Something portrayed on 'Deliverance' no doubt.
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