'Men At Work' signs to disappear in Atlanta

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In the battle of the sexes, women's magazine editor Cynthia Good said this was a skirmish she had to fight.

Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read "Men At Work" or "Men Working Ahead."

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Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the signs and last week, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista agreed.

Score one for gender equality, Good said Wednesday.

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Public Works officials are replacing 50 "Men Working" with signs that say "Workers Ahead." It will cost $22 to cover over some of the old signs and $144 to buy new signs, said Public Works spokeswoman Valerie Bell-Smith said.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atl...ns_atlanta.html

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Do you come from a land down under?

Where women glow and men plunder?

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

You better run, you better take cover.

Edited July 10, 2008 by Gerard

[LaL 418]

aww the cat is back!

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Solution: ask Cynthia Good to do all the cover work as volunteer--as she was the one to bring up the issue to the mayor, let her follow through!

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

Do you come from a land down under?

Where women glow and men plunder?

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

You better run, you better take cover.

:dance: :dance: yay he's back!

[Peikko 1,575]

Retrospective changes of this kind are damned silly as well as expensive. I can see the point of moving forward introducing such signs but it's not something that I would get all antsy about.

[Sassy1natl 0]

That's very disappointing. When I see those signs, I just know that up ahead there is a man, shirtless, glistening in sweat, six-pack rippling...oops. That was Sex in the City, my bad. Who cares what the ~darn~ sign says as long as somebody fill the frackin pot holes?!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Retrospective changes of this kind are damned silly as well as expensive. I can see the point of moving forward introducing such signs but it's not something that I would get all antsy about.

Why do you hate women so much?

[Peikko 1,575]

Yes, why?

[Nessa 23]

you know, women are people too.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

That's very disappointing. When I see those signs, I just know that up ahead there is a man, shirtless, glistening in sweat, six-pack rippling...oops. That was Sex in the City, my bad. Who cares what the ~darn~ sign says as long as somebody fill the frackin pot holes?!

Surely "Sweaty Beasts At Work" would be more accurate

[almaty 19]

the sign was always wrong..i never seen any of those slackers working..just palying grab azz and smoking butts

[Saddle Bronc 124]

the sign was always wrong..i never seen any of those slackers working..just palying grab azz and smoking butts

You make a good point Dean; an anecdote from Reader's Digest.

An old man, on his walk, decided to take a shortcut through a construction site. The foreman asked him, "Mister, did you see that sign?" (referring to a "men working" sign) The old man replied, "sonny, in my day we didn't need a SIGN to tell us that".

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

you know, women are people too.

not when they are pms'íng......

[Saddle Bronc 124]

That's very disappointing. When I see those signs, I just know that up ahead there is a man, shirtless, glistening in sweat, six-pack rippling...oops. That was Sex in the City, my bad. Who cares what the ~darn~ sign says as long as somebody fill the frackin pot holes?!

Surely "Sweaty Beasts At Work" would be more accurate

To make the sign really accurate....change it to "chopf##ks wasting time".