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June 10, 2008 |
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Rard Sale
FOUND by Aaron
in Houston, Texas
Found in the Montrose neighborhood. Take note of the carefully-measured lines drawn for character placement.
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That's how I write my "a" !! :]
And for all the people that will ask "What the heck is a 'Rard Sale?'"
It is obviously the selling of rards.
Well, 'rard' is obviously not a real word. However, the urban dictionary says: "a slightly more politically correct version of "retard" also, fewer syllables, and so easier to say whilst wasted".
Unintentionally mean.
Rutt Roe, Raggy... rhere's the rard sale?
www.engrish.com
I love it! The other day my Japanese class made Okonomiyaki (Japanese savoury pancake thingy) and the student teacher kept telling us we needed to "crush the rumps"
I'm desperate for something clever to write. But all I can do is chuckle...Engrish...
could be a japanese lard sale
or a backyard sale (where the r comes from rear)...regardless, you should bring money
I once saw a sign for a "Sale of things". How I wished I had seen it while it was in effect, because it had to have been interesting, the phraseology alone made it sound horribly fascinating. A rard sale must have been helmed by someone terribly unique too.
Wow, I wish I lived in Texas. I'm in desperate need of a new Rard, and just can't seem to find any around here!
i live in a montrose hood in a different city, state... i wouldn't be surprised to find a rard sale here either.
I used to live in the Montrose. I loved it, it was inside the loop and I'd would get a nose bleed if they went outside. Now that just sounds stupid. Wonder what they sell at "Rard" sales?
Okonomiyaki
Isn't that a city in Wisconsin?
Ed Zachery what #3 said.
I think this may have been a calculated compromise between a couple: He's from the Midwest where the selling of crap in ones yard or garage is commonly called a "Rummage Sale". She's from the south where the same sale is called a "Yard Sale". Hence Rard Sale.
A relationship may have been saved.
Excessive heat turned my lard sale into a complete disaster.
Rutt Roe Raggy was my bread and butter...oh well
JodaBabes, I like that theory. It would have been better if it was a compromise between "tag sale" and "yard sale," though.
I would def check out a Tard Sale.
Pirate Speak:
Rard Sale, Matey
Over Thaaare (follow arrow)
this is funny. i like it. and JodaBabes: lol, i can totally see a couple having a screaming match about that.
and to 'me': crush the rumps!!! that's SO awesome
oh, and do they sell blue stars on crack?
i hope so...
that was my favorite find EVER.
I love the way they were so careful to draw the guide lines so they could write straight. It's so carefully done - which makes the 'Rard' part all the more bizarre! Beauty.
@Lia: The writer didn't draw the guidelines. The MOTHER drew the guidelines so that the sign would actually turn out well and then the kid showed it to the MOTHER...and she just sighed....and smiled...and said, "thanks, sweetie."
They are selling their "Rard"...short for "rare yard". I have no clue what is so rare about it...maybe it still pink in the middle.
I know, I know...I should get shot for that one.
A perfectly good Pard Sale sign ruined by some dope with a black marker. Way to go, jerk.
Funny- just last week I saw a sign for a "gargae" sale. All that excitement about having a sale must short circuit the spelling part of the brain.
Road/yard sale. They don't have a front yard, so it's a rard sale.
John, that reminds me of a full size billboard I saw a couple years back, announcing in HUGE letters a "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SLAE!" for a shoe store. The billboard was up for over a month and was never corrected, which got me thinking that maybe they misspelled it on purpose to get people's attention.
Flargy, saw a sign for perfume on sale.
Poisson... (that's fish, in french)...
do you think they meant "Poison"?
@Flargy, I'm sure they were just trying to get attention. From now on that's what I'm going to call my spelling mistakes: cries for attention. Perhaps it will appease the spelling nazis.
@ Pepper: We all get nose bleeds if we go outside the loop. If we go outside the Beltway, it starts hemorrhaging.
Montrose, for the most part, is a pretty high-class, fun little neighborhood (notorious in Houston for its large gay community... not that there's anything wrong with that). I wish I saw this sign so I could go to the rard sale and pick up some fun correctables.
There are cries for attention all over the place. I saw a banner outside a jewelry store that said, "Huge Jewlery Sale" and I parked my car and got out and went inside to tell the owner. I wasn't the least bit Nazi-ish, however.
Scoobie Do is moving....He has too many play toys so...he's having a Rard Sale....
mlm, I've noticed that jewelry store owners, when they insist on doing the voice overs in their own radio spots, have some of the worst speaking skills and should really just leave the talking to the professionals.
One such guy in CT pronounces jewelry as "zhurry" and engagement as "ingagent" (really, no "m" at all the way he says it).
Wait...is the part about "jewlery" and not being Nazi-ish an intentional joke?
....just a tiny one.
@John, you get the award for only comment to get me to laugh. I am, of course, assuming that this site is here only for my amusement and that all of your comments are auditions for my daily award. :)
Flargy, are those jewelry store owners speaking English as a second language in the voice overs? Do they have heavy accents? Or are they just drunk?
I love that 'e'.
Note to self: time to weed out and sell off all of those 'rards' that are piling up in the garage. Maybe a 'rard sale' is in order.
John, you made me LOL - but see, I thought it was a perfectlly good "LARD" sale sign.
You know, w/all this high priced gasoline, maybe someone was selling lard to use as fuel. ?
Reminds me of "A Christmas Story" when they're at the Chinese restaurant after the dogs ate the turkey.
Fa Ra Ra Ra Ra...
mlm... not a very good joke, actually. I don't know how much time has to pass before nazi/jew jokes are funny, but it hasnt been enough time, just yet.
Is there nothing in life so sacred that we can't joke about it?
Let's start a round of Dead Baby jokes to lighten things up.
Mona, I think Seinfeld disagrees with you on that one.
Oh, lighten up. I didn't even notice it could be a joke until Flargy pointed it out. I was referring to John's post above mine about the spelling Nazis.
my favorite letter on the sign is the "a" in Rard. Very nice. The rest of the sign is junky looking and messy.
I'm just gonna shut up while I'm ahead. (I am ahead, right?)
Perhaps i am being overly sensitive, mlm.
soup nazi's, spelling nazi's, yes. But I think mlm took it one step further, linking the jewlery and the nazi-ism. Just my opinion. Take it or leave it. Yes, John, i think you're still ahead.
Thank goodness we got THAT cleared up. Now on to the dead baby jokes!
@ Flargy:
Speaking of transposed leters, I used to live in New Haven (near edgewood park) and always smiled as the bus took me past the Yale Co-op, outside which stood a trash can, neatly stenciled TRAHS...
Mona, I don't think you're being overly sensitive. I wasn't linking the "jew"lery to Nazi-ism. Like I said, I was making the comment about being a spelling Nazi in reference to John's comment. I didn't even see the word "jew" embedded in "jewlery" until after I replied to Flargy's comment. I guess I should have replied to Flargy's question, had I read it more carefully, as, "No, it was not intentional." For the record, I think John is still ahead, too. Black marker--HA!
mlm.... ok.. truce.
I think this rard sale is put on by the waiters in A Christmas Story (fa-ra-ra-ra-ra).
I am actually having a yard sale this Saturday. (You're all invited.) Until today I thought I had the signage all squared away -- now I'm having second thoughts. Surely a Rard Sale draws larger crowds.
Farmer...where exactly? I used to live near the park, in a hellhole at the corner of Boulevard & Whalley.
I love jodababes idea....
Although I personally would rather go to a yummage sale than a rard sale
Wait, this is a competition for "L's" daily award?
Nobody notified me.
Is this for the $20,000 prize package?
OMG! Just this last Saturday night, I was driving my dad thru a small town (Gilroy) - I had to stop & turn around to get a photo of a sign: "GROCH SALE!"
There were a few of these signs posted, to be sure that people driving by in all directions would know about the sale.
So John - Maybe make your signs: Groch & Rard Sale!! (and please let us know who stops at it!)
I on it, Camelia.
"I'm" (cry for attention)
I can understand not knowing the silly spelling rules (i before e, whatever else) but i cannot understand the grossly wrong ones, like GROCH. Haven't they ever seen a garage sale sign before? don't they have anyone they can ask? maybe a child made the signs, and the adults put them up, thinking they're cute/funny.
Cool, John!
Mona - I'm afraid it's because of an "English-as-a-second-language" issue. Some fool told the sign maker, "Just spell it the way it sounds [to you] and you'll probably be right!"
Instead, some drivers-by start thinking they're selling "private parts"!!
I gotta say, this is another amazing Found Synchronistic Karma thingy.
I saw this sign 2 days ago, knew you all would love it too... Couldn't take it down because it was probably a Sunday sale too. I remembered that someone posted about a "no pictures of the Find" rule; I just didn't know how to share it!
But, Jason & Gang at Found psychically solved my dilemma!! WhoooHOOO!! Groch Sale(s) Rock! Rard Sales too!!
Check out:
http://garagesalepro.webgoonies.com/pictures/s
(If the link works.)
Dang! Add: igns/sign17.jpg
I prefer a good "FEAL" Market, myself.
"rard" rad and yard
therefore, a rad yard sale
can't argue with that
Reminded me of an awful accent a teacher had, telling us to : "Warch your hands!" I heard this all the time! There was another one, involving pluralizing something that didn't need it, and it made my brain scream.
@ John -- oh boy, the garagesalepro site really *needs* my photo!!
(I just got the camera recently, has oodles of pics on it... I need a new 'puter, because my interim one occasionally decides to crash without me adding a bunch of digital photos!
Oh well. I don't know how to work with all of this yet. Guess I'll find out soon, eh?)
Actually, Rard is a Texas euphemism for hemorrhoids (spelling?)...rhoids, etc.
I first heard the term "Rard" in one of George Dubbya's speeches regarding healthcare. (It seems that George the First silently suffered from a roaring case of the Rards during the first Gulf War and that was the real reason he didn't go "all the way" to Baghdad--sore butt.)
Why would anyone sell their Rards...just give them away for free or use barter instead?
I saw a sign for a GAR SALE not too long ago. Like the fish?
Also, annually, Muncie has YART, a yard sale of art. It's tons of fun.
I wonder if they have any Nazi Jewlery for dead babies at this Rard Sale?
Be Alert! The world needs more Lerts!
Ahahahahaha!!! All these posts are too funny!! I once saw a sign that read, "GOING OUT FOR BUSINESS SALE!"
There was a huge line-up....
EW is all that's missing from a REWARD SALE...
My first reaction was Scoobie Doo and the gang were cleaning out the Mystery Machine and wanted to get rid of some stuff. If you have ever purchased Gogurts (yogurt in a tube) from the dairy case, you would see they have some with Scoobie Doo they call "Ro-gurts. I just had to buy them cause it was genius.
I love rard sales! My car stops at all rard sales.
@Flargy:
On the boulevard, couple of blocks from Chapel. Nice studio apartment in a house owned by a kind Lithuanian immigrant. You could see the sundial, a block and a half away.
I left when crack came (big time), & there was gunfire in the park at night, where I used to go hang out just to breathe an otherwise peaceful night air.
This reminds me of that sign I saw advertising a sale of old planks of wood. It said "Free and Cheap Wood"
made me wonder how something can be both Free, AND cheap..
Maybe they had 2 types of wood? one free and one cheap? >.>;
OR - the washer & dryer placed street-side, with a big sign:
FREE or BEST OFFER!!
oooh. A hometown find. Not sure what a rard sale is though. According to urban dictionary it is a cross between a yard sale and a rummage sale. People do things different in the Montrose area anyway, so I suppose it makes sense.
Well they wanted to have a "Rummage Sale", but they really went crazy with the "R" and didn't have room for the "ummage", so instead of starting over with a new sign, they left the "R" and tried to write "Yard".