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[chickadoodles]

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Saturday morning funny to go with your coffee

Why do I think this is not the best marketing strategy????

Because they are too cheap

Farm fresh should cost at LEAST $3/dozen.

I like this sign. I saw it on FB. I think it's funny.

 

[Bunnylady]

Saturday morning funny to go with your coffee

Why do I think this is not the best marketing strategy????

Cute, very cute . . but I suspect a photo shop. The creator of this sign is quite an artist, if a quirky one: apparently went to the trouble of painting all of the surfaces of an entire pallet white, did a pretty decent rendering of a chicken (with the gap between the boards in the middle of it - not many would do that), used some faux finishing techniques to give the impression of age, and finished it all off by attaching some hay as a "nest." They put a lot of thought and effort into that . . . . and I agree, they aren't charging anywhere near enough.

ETA - when I blew the pic up as large as my computer would go, it looked like the fading might be real, but if so, someone has repainted this sign recently, and maybe repeatedly . . . .
My impression is that the person who created this was much more interested in being funny than they were in selling eggs

 

[Peep_Show]

That was a bit weird wasn't it poor trigger

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I think they stuffed the dog, too.

(At least they didn't end up like the poor critters deb posted under "Taxidermy Fails")

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Anyway, big fan of Wild, Wild West and The Big Valley, especially when Barbara Stanwyck chewed up the scenery

 

[bruceha2000]

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Saturday morning funny to go with your coffee

Why do I think this is not the best marketing strategy????

Cute, very cute . . but I suspect a photo shop. The creator of this sign is quite an artist, if a quirky one: apparently went to the trouble of painting all of the surfaces of an entire pallet white, did a pretty decent rendering of a chicken (with the gap between the boards in the middle of it - not many would do that), used some faux finishing techniques to give the impression of age, and finished it all off by attaching some hay as a "nest." They put a lot of thought and effort into that . . . . and I agree, they aren't charging anywhere near enough.

You don't think that the poorly spaced words "Butt NUGGETS" replaced white space and the E and S on either side of the GG do you???

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I wish it was SCG cold here, we got 3 days of it and it was so lovely and we're back to death valley. It was 93 yesterday when I left work.

We need to get rain.

 

[microchick]

What I found funny about 'The Big Valley' was all the makeup Barbara Stanwyck and Linda Evans wore. In real period time they would have been branded as harlots and ran out of the county as scarlet women. I laugh my head off at that thought every time I watch it.

And all the men's clothing was new and always sparkling clean. Get real guys! That was one of the things l liked about High Chaparral. The ranch hands would get off their horses and dust their clothes off. Clouds of dirt would come off of them.

I always liked realism in the westerns I watched and if I couldn't get realism, gimme good horses, a lot of shooting and good looking cowboys and I was happy.

 

[Bunnylady]

What I found funny about 'The Big Valley' was all the makeup Barbara Stanwyck and Linda Evans wore. In real period time they would have been branded as harlots and ran out of the county as scarlet women. I laugh my head off at that thought every time I watch it.

And all the men's clothing was new and always sparkling clean. Get real guys! That was one of the things l liked about High Chaparral. The ranch hands would get off their horses and dust their clothes off. Clouds of dirt would come off of them.

I always liked realism in the westerns I watched and if I couldn't get realism, gimme good horses, a lot of shooting and good looking cowboys and I was happy.

Yeah, with every (60's bouffant) hair in place, and did you ever see anyone with a dirty/sweaty butt from riding, even bareback?

Something I came hate in recent years is that movie trope of yanking a horse's halter off and yelling to get it to gallop off when turning it out. I worked for a guy that did that to his boarders' horses, and nearly got my teeth kicked down my throat by a pony that did the predictable buck and kick . . . Also had my arm nearly pulled out of the socket when an off-the-track thoroughbred yanked me through the pasture gate. Fun to watch, perhaps, but stupid to do.
Or things that the foley artists simply couldn't put in. You might get the clop-clop-clop in rhythm with the horse's actual footsteps, and maybe the squeak of leather, but there are certain other sounds that those of us that are familiar with horses know too well, but which would detract (or at any rate, distract) from the drama.

But if you spend much time watching old shows, you can almost get culture shock from realizing how much attitudes have changed . . .

 

[microchick]

Ahh yes, I remember those summer days bare back riding and getting off my horse looking like I'd wet myself with about a pound of horse hair stuck to my backside.

I also still to this day I'm getting mad at the TV whenever they have a chase on horseback and the horse is just loping along. I'm yelling 'That isn't a gallop! Give that horse it's head ya bunch of pansies!' My poor husband just shakes his head at me.

But growing up with westerns on TV was far better than some of the nonsense that they show now and call it entertainment.

 

[perchie.girl]

What I found funny about 'The Big Valley' was all the makeup Barbara Stanwyck and Linda Evans wore. In real period time they would have been branded as harlots and ran out of the county as scarlet women. I laugh my head off at that thought every time I watch it.

And all the men's clothing was new and always sparkling clean. Get real guys! That was one of the things l liked about High Chaparral. The ranch hands would get off their horses and dust their clothes off. Clouds of dirt would come off of them.

I always liked realism in the westerns I watched and if I couldn't get realism, gimme good horses, a lot of shooting and good looking cowboys and I was happy.

Yeah John Wayne always had awesome horses..... Watching the Rifleman right now. and am always amazed at how they tied the horses with the reins.

LOL I loaned my Mare out to a cousin to shoot a western for his class in college. They had a guy dressed up as a prospector trot her into the scene and get off and tie her to a willow bush... She said "" Riiigghhht... "' and sauntered off to go find something to eat.... Good thing they didnt know how to tie a knot.... Snort. and I had the crappy reins on her bridle.

deb

 

[Beer can]

I wish it was SCG cold here, we got 3 days of it and it was so lovely and we're back to death valley. It was 93 yesterday when I left work. 

We need to get rain. 

Same here and 90% humidity. We have got some rain here though, most of western ny, no, drought.