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red states rule
07-11-2008, 05:36 PM
The PC Police can be offended over anything these days. What a waste of taxpayers money to fix this "bias"



Atlanta Stripped of 'Men at Work' Signs After Complaints of Bias
Thursday, July 10, 2008

By Catherine Donaldson-Evans

Political correctness rules the road in Atlanta — which is replacing all its "Men at Work" signs with gender-neutral ones after a women's magazine editor complained of bias.

The project, which involves painting over the existing 50 "Men at Work" and "Men Working" signs with those that say simply "Workers Ahead" or "Workers," will cost a total of $1,000, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista told FOXNews.com.

About half of the city's 100 Public Works employees are women, said Basista, so he complied with PINK magazine editor Cynthia Good's request to stop warning passersby of men at work when women were right there alongside them.

"It seemed like the right thing to do," Basista said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,379842,00.html

Abbey Marie
07-11-2008, 10:12 PM
:lame2:

gabosaurus
07-11-2008, 10:20 PM
Are they keeping the "Flock of Seagulls" signs?

Yurt
07-11-2008, 10:22 PM
these guys are not amused:

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/4385/menatworkxn6.jpg

Mr. P
07-11-2008, 10:50 PM
Are they keeping the "Flock of Seagulls" signs?

No seagulls in Atlanta..."Flocks of Africans" though.

Hobbit
07-12-2008, 09:38 PM
http://boortz.com/images/men_at_work.jpg

Seriously, though, I wonder if I can get me one of the old signs for my room.

Yurt
07-12-2008, 10:07 PM
http://boortz.com/images/men_at_work.jpg

Seriously, though, I wonder if I can get me one of the old signs for my room.

:lol:

KitchenKitten99
07-12-2008, 10:57 PM
http://boortz.com/images/men_at_work.jpg

Seriously, though, I wonder if I can get me one of the old signs for my room.

If you lived in Minnesota, I could get you one, cheap, if not free. My husband salvages street signs of all kinds on his job and most just end up in the recycle heap or dumpster. He can do this legally, since his company is the one taking the signs for salvaging, and he asks permission to take them beforehand. He's taken several 'deer crossing' signs and put crosshairs on them (either in red paint marker or red vinyl used for other signs) and sold them to hunters up North.

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p298/FuzzyKitten1999/deer.jpg

Sometimes friends will put in requests for specific kinds of signs, should he ever come across them.

Otherwise, you can have your own sign custom made (with street-legal reflective backing) for you at http://www.qualitycontractinginc.com/traffic.html