Stretch Lingo
Seen on signs around the world.
The drug store opposite the bus terminal
Terminal Drugs
UK Army rifle range
No Shooting
At a number
of US military bases
Restricted to unauthorized personnel.
On
the grounds of a private school
No trespassing without permission.
At the front gate of a cemetery:
No exit at other end
A Maine restaurant
Open 7 days
a week and weekends.
On
the menu of a restaurant
Blackened bluefish
New Hampshire restaurant
Now
serving live lobsters
Massachusetts
area for birdwatchers
Parking for birds only
In
a New York medical building
Mental Health Prevention Center
In a New York drugstore
We dispense
with accuracy
A long established dry cleaning store
Thirty-eight
years on the same spot
Collision Zone strictly enforced
Perth,
Australia:
Special chicken cooked in cholesterol free cottonseed
oil
A
Pennsylvania cemetery
Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but
their own grave
A New York restaurant
Customers who find our waitresses rude ought
to see the manager
A loan
company
Ask about our plans for
owning your home
On
a Baltimore estate
Trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law.
- Sisters of Mercy
New York convalescence:
For
the sick and tired of
the Episcopal Church
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Contributions to The Langwidge this year:
Sol Squire, David Lawton
And see acknowledgments from previous years