About four years ago, fed up with being treated like an ATM by the pinheads on their cellphones, I put up this sign at the video store. I also posted it on Photobucket, emailed it to a few fellow retail-monkeys, put it on my MySpace page (This pic is a later one, but shows the original sign in its original place: http://www.myspace.com/ginsoak/photos/61960451 ).
Last night I went to the midnight premiere of "Scott Pilgram vs the World". I'm a big fan of the director Edgar Wright, and the early reviews were great, so I decided to catch it early.
About 10 minutes into the film the Scott character gets a call from his bitchy sister Stacey, who works as a barista. Something in the background catches my eye; look at the sign over her left shoulder:
And for easier comparison:
Four years after putting this up out of frustration with shitty customers it works its way to Hollywood, where some set designer/art director decides it's a good background sign for a bitchy barista....
AWESOME!!!
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not the same sign, its a paraphrase and only STARTS with the "if" so it seems the same, but upon closer examination, some of the words/order are different.
and by the way, the closest you ever came to Hollywood was when you starred in a psychotronic short film called "Fear of Lemonade".
You were awesome!
That film is getting you laid, right?
This is a lobby shot from Universal; on the big screen it's much more obvious.
And it's not a 'paraphrase'. The only difference in the text is "using your" instead of "on a".
Plus 3 of the the line breaks are the same: "If you...", "you will...", "be served."
Plus the font is a similar Medium Type sans serif. Plus the vertical layout, the single-line border, the scale.
I will be the first to admit it's possible this is just a bizarre coincidence, but come on, it's the internet. Shit spreads.
Leave it to Brian to try to steal your thunder while plugging his crappy movie!
I know, right?
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