why does my hand smell like an old lady's neck - New Random Thread

[peacocks]

I could just go to bed. any time I want.
what is stopping me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-LLCpM27WE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjkCvgOKwp4&feature=related

[milesofsparks]

hello multi-linguists, can anyone tell me what this neon sign says?  the store is called New Texas Fried Chickens.  I won't put the [sic] there, because that would be pretentious.

[jm]

Blue words say "allah" and "muhammad" (right and left, respectively), and the middle word is "masha'allah", which is roughly "god has willed it", but I really don't know enough about arabic grammar to make any specific sense of it. Dick Dick Dick, where you at Dick.

[Dick]

From right to left:

"GOD"

"GOD HAS WILLED IT" (that's what it literally means, it's a formulaic expression used as a generic response to good news, also has some connotation of a ritual saying to prevent bad luck, the way we say 'knock on wood' after saying something good has happened or something bad hasn't happened yet.)

"MUHAMMAD"

Sorry it's not more interesting.  These are just formulaic phrases.  You write them on your juice stand, the back of your truck, whatever.  Kind of the equivalent of American flag pins or ribbon bumper stickers.

xpost w/jm who beat me

[milesofsparks]

thanks so much!  I would not have guessed that's what it said.  I will buy you both some New Texas Fried Chickens the next time you are in New York.

[Dick]

Perhaps it is time I begin my journey to the fabled lands of New Texas.

[YojimboMonkey]

I'll take four of the fried chickens please

anyways speaking of fried chickens and neon signs mos did you see my neon pics in the food thread? or are you only interested in NYC neon 

[milesofsparks]

anyways speaking of fried chickens and neon signs mos did you see my neon pics in the food thread? or are you only interested in NYC neon 

I love other neon, too!  (though I'm only really documenting the signs in NYC for the moment, unless someone wants to give me a travel grant...)  those are great.  I would eat that fried chicken any day.

[elpollodiablo]

There's actually some great vintage neon in this little backwater burg that I've been meaning to snap a few shots of for you.

[milesofsparks]

Ohio has loads of good neon. 

[bethany_m]

there was a pretty fabulous neon sign in downtown fredericton for a shoe store, that has since gone out of business.  No more sign.  I took a picture with my phone a few years ago, and thought about sending it to you.

[milesofsparks]

I'm happy to see all neon sign pictures! 

[milesofsparks]

is there a linguistics thread?  y'all have done so well so far, here is another neon linguistic challenge, from an Afghani restaurant...  is it Pashto?

[Dick]

It's calligraphy, which combined with the way it's rendered in neon makes it difficult to tell how you're supposed to read it.  It doesn't have any letters that are recognizably special to Pashto though, so it's possible it's Dari. 

Do you know the name of the restaurant?

[milesofsparks]

It's called Bamiyan Restaurant

[elpollodiablo]

Hey, I've eaten there!

[El_Josharino]

Random contest: The person who provides the best picture of a baseball bat shattering a dollar sign wins a prize.

[Little Sixes Little Nines]

my GIS turned up this:


that guy looks so happy!

[alex]

That's a decent picture of a dollar sign being smashed by a crocket stick.

[Greg Nog]

I got mixed up and put this in the baseball thread by accident:

[dumbfish]

Looks to me like that guy's hitting a home run... FOR SAVINGS!

[Greg Nog]

Last April, I bought a DNA testing kit from 23andme.com 'cause they were having a sale on it.  I took a while to send the kit back, but I just got the results today!  It's neat!  I can see what kind of genes I have, and how they correlate to things like my likelihood of becoming a heroin addict!

[milesofsparks]

that is awesome, Greg Nog.  I want to do that some time.

also, I had no idea until this murder thing here that Russia doesn't allow people to be extradited from Russian soil.  that little fact could come in handy some day...

[DCDave]

Last April, I bought a DNA testing kit from 23andme.com 'cause they were having a sale on it.  I took a while to send the kit back, but I just got the results today!  It's neat!  I can see what kind of genes I have, and how they correlate to things like my likelihood of becoming a heroin addict!

23 and me are our competitors.

[Dick]

It's called Bamiyan Restaurant

The sign says Bamiyan.  I was trying to think of a way to walk you through reading it so you wouldn't think I was just bullshitting you, then I forgot about this.  I'm still not 100% on what's going on in the middle, but the first and last parts of the word are enough to convince me.  Aesthetically, the striking calligraphic features of Bamiyan would be the two A's (long vertical lines), and the last letter N, ن, is up there at the top.