In the late 1960s I was a bouncer at a night club.  The owner liked to turn the air conditioner to about 65 degrees so that the bra-less women would have erect nipples.

Half the women in the place would have their arms crossed in front of their chests to hide the fact.

Nowadays that would be sexual harassment by thermostat.

There used to be a store east of Soho in Manhattan called Abrasive Sales. They sold all kinds of abrasives, nothing inappropriate about that. What was funny was how abrasive the counter guy was.

In 1968, my sophomore year at Syracuse University, they broke ground on a new engineering building that was to be built right on the main quad.  Because of legacy rules on a donation no building on the quad could be taller than Hendrix Chapel. 

That required going down 3 or 4 stories to build the required number of rooms.  They were still building when I graduated. 

The build site was entirely encircled by a wall of 4’ x 8’ sheets of plywood painted gray.  The student election was coming up and they painted on the wall in 7’ tall letters:

WE WELCOME THE ELECTION.

Some student, under the cover of darkness changed the sign to “WE WELCOME THE ERECTION”.

The janitor was assigned the task of painting over the offensive sign. 

His first effort was:  E WELCOME THE ERECTION

He decided that was not sufficient and he continued on his quest to make the sign acceptable with : WELCOME THE ERECTION

That would not do, so:  ELCOME THE ERECTION

He finally stopped when he reached : ECTION

It took him the entire day.  He might have benefitted from some supervision.

The block letters took up nearly the full height of the 8’ panels.  So the letters themselves  were probably painted with a 6” wide brush—the width of each stroke was probably 6 to 8 inches. 

I never knew who painted the original sign—it was probably University approved.  An ambitious piece of work for a student election.

This site might be a bit prudish for carrying on this line of conversation.  So no comment from me. (I also do well with some supervision.)

In Freeport, NY is the Royal Screw Machine
Still going after all these years