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8/5/2005
9:39:58 am EDT
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Crabby Dick's Sign: Poor Taste Or Just A Sign?
Author: Henry J. Evans Jr. Source: Cape Gazette (DE)
Title: CRABBY DICK'S SIGN: POOR TASTE OR JUST A SIGN?
The marquee sign in front of Crabby Dick’s restaurant on Route 1 near Midway sometimes reads, “Dip your balls in our seaman sauce.” It’s a message restaurant owners Dale Slotter and Jon Buchheit say is meant to grab a customer’s attention. But some in the community say that message and similar ones are blatantly obscene.
“My neighbors complain, my friends complain. Everyone that I talk to is thoroughly disgusted by the signs,” says Linda Coxton of Rehoboth Beach.
The restaurant has been displaying the messages on its Route 1 sign since opening Memorial Day weekend last year. Coxton, 52, says the messages have become increasingly objectionable. But the owners – and some of their customers – don’t agree.
“This is America. I’ve done nothing illegal,” Slotter wrote in response to a letter of complaint he received from Coxton about the sign.
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| Too Bad It's Not In My Area. | Aug 5th. at 6:37:13 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
Sounds like a wild and interesting place to eat. Gave me a laugh, especially since the place is named "Crabby Dick". I've read worse signs posted by churches and other establishments. However, I might know some that would actually ask if that was a restaurant -or something else.
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| Hahahaha...and I'm A LOCAL! | Aug 5th. at 6:09:42 pm EDT
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Rev. Heidi Andrews (Salisbury, Maryland) - Email Me - Web
I live very close to this very area, and let me tell you, if I'd seen this sign, I'd probably laugh my butt off.
Yeah, they're making such a big deal over this, and yet we have OC, MD with all of it's "offensive" t-shirts on the boardwalk and crap like that, yet they never fuss about it. I mean, we have Big Peckers Bar and Grill, the Brass Balls Saloon, and more.
Heck, I once saw a sign on one of our local churches that said "Want to talk to God? Get on your knees." Now how twisted does THAT sound?
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| Actually, | Aug 5th. at 3:59:32 pm EDT
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Aidan Odinson (Collingdale, Pennsylvania) - Email Me
Anyone with enough spare time to raise that much fuss over something that petty needs to find something productive to do.
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| Yuck... | Aug 5th. at 3:32:07 pm EDT
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Medea (Somewhere, Massachusetts) - Email Me
That sign's GROSS!
If I were driving around hungry, I'd pass on the place because it just sounds disgusting. And I actually DO have a dirty mind. :)
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| Reminds Me Of Howard Stern | Aug 5th. at 1:58:54 pm EDT
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Trickster (Kokopeli's Town, Texas) - Email Me - Web
His fans tune in because they want to hear what he's gonna say next. His critics tune in because they want to hear what he's gonna say next.
Or you could tune in CNN to hear about Bush, Dick and Colin.
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| Gamecocks | Aug 5th. at 1:02:40 pm EDT
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FireFox (Uncasville, Washington) - Email Me
This reminds me of a story some years ago in Ohio where a friend of my cousin was kicked out of school because he refused to remove his signed ball cap that read 'Go Cocks' on it. The princible found it offensive and kicked him out. Who was the one with the dirty mind? The kid that wore it (maybe) or the person who screamed loud enough for it to go to court about it?
And can you tell me that the gods know how many people in the Carolinas that go to college games and scream "Cocks!" are thinking anything beyond the game and the team? Even the older people who go and have been going to games since they were kids?
Its just food. Its crabs. Its yummy. And d*mmit I wish they had them out here in Wa!
~Jen
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| Oh, Please... | Aug 5th. at 11:59:00 am EDT
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Jain (Baltimore, Maryland) - Email Me
...what kind of ad campaign would you expect with a name like "Crabby Dick's" to begin with? Here in Baltimore we seem to have no trouble with it. In fact I bought a Tee shirt there with the slogan "Got Crabs?"
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| Lick It! | Aug 5th. at 11:42:18 am EDT
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Terry (Irvington, Virginia) - Email Me
The day that Crabby Dick is forced to change his signs, is the day when Ms. Coxton should be forced to change her offensive religion with its warped pseudo-morality.
The community has apparently voted on the issue already. Dick's balls are approaching a million sold, with or without dipping in special sauce.
Perhaps South Park would license Chef's Chocolcate Salty Balls, beyond use of the song for Playboy cable ads? Then Dick could add a suitable desert menu. Or, perhaps special chocolate eclairs, that squirt in your mouth, not in your hand?
The newspaper did a poor job on one aspect of this article. The reporter quotes many sources discussing whether the ad slogans are "offensive" or better described in various ethical or moral terms. By making a claim that some think they're "obscene" in language that appears to be the reporter's supposedly factual summary, a suggestion is planted that locals are claiming the ads fall outside 1st amendment protections (even if "obscene" also has colloquial uses of no rational meaning) . That's potentially libelous publication, alleging illegal acts when only legal and protected speech exists.
How about "Master Bait and Tackle Shop"? Years ago I recall great amusement by radio DJ's assigned to produce ads for that client, as the new fishing report sponsor at one station.
Is it OK to discuss one's 13 year old daughter Ramona and her lust for eating lesbians in public at the nude beach?
That periodic thread served a useful purpose for many years on rec.nude. Ramona was a real bitch, and she helped her owners clean up dropped hamburgers at their lunch stand on one California nude beach. Some of the burgers had condiments placed in artistic creations, named for groups of beach regulars. The "lesbian" was the most popular burger, named for a volleyball team. People who wrote Ramona's "father" when he offered pictures of her on rec.nude usually didn't realize she was a geriatric dog, and that process helped to monitor the nudist newsgroup for lurking child predators more effectively than law enforcement types ever could.
Unless and until this society grows up and accomplishes more mature and open dealings with sexuality as a normal part of life, people like Ms. Coxton need to be pushed to get over themselves and their pathological prejudices. It's her kind of thinking that encourages predatory lust among those who'd jump to conclusions about Ramona, and assume she must need help from adult male humans who might offer her more than a dropped burger patty.
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