MetaFilter posts tagged with marquee

Marquee anagrams / aqua ear man germs

tepidmonkey — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:19:05 -0800

After the Flatbush Pavilion theater in Brooklyn closed down, people started rearranging the letters on the marquee to spell their own messages. It looks like they come in two sets: anagrams made out of the letters in “Van Helsing” and “Man on Fire,” the last movies to be screened at the theater, and the letters in “Now open! American Apparel,” the store that moved into the building. Of course if you’re dissatisfied with the anagrams in the photos you can always roll your own.

A Sign From God

MiltonRandKalman — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:15:28 -0800

Slate's Doree Shafrir takes a look at the history of God's billboard, the church marquee. First started by storefront churches to stand out in urban settings, the marquee has become a mainstay of suburban congregations notable Baptist. Ranging from the campy and bizarre, to the political and outright inflammatory. God needs a copywriter.

Now you see it, now you don't

dg — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:10:19 -0800

Now you see it, now you don't. The infamous blink tag, maligned for so long by almost, but not quite everyone, can now be supported in IE. Isn't that great news?