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December 2008

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• signage

  Christensen & Olsen Foundry Co.

  12.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the excellent Cheeta Fight.

• ampersands I like

  An eBay auction I missed.

  12.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  WOOD TYPE “&”
  Goddamnit!
  Thanks Nick.

• clothing, reader links

  I think I missed an Ampersand shirt.

  12.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here is another one: And Then I Woke Up.

• ampersands I like

  I was browsing flickr

  12.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  And this was pretty cool.

• reader links

  Drinky Ampersand

  12.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Good stuff. From Sarah France.

• reader links, there is an ampersand in there somewhere

  Screentones, patterns and a box of Cheeze-itz.

  12.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Screentones, patterns and a box of Cheeze-itz.
  I don’t really understand this one, but I guess it is pretty cool.

  From Jonathan.

• reader links

  Esperluette

  12.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I don’t speak French, but here is what google translate tells me.

• ampersands I like, clothing

  Halloween

  12.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I know Halloween is almost a year away, but this is pretty awesome.
  Chris says:
  my halloween costume from 2003 — Jokes about hard day’s work connecting clauses abounded

• ampersands I like, reader links

  Nursery Alphabet

  12.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  From Kris:
  A nice fat ampersand from a 1896 Nursery Alphabet book my mom picked up at a garage sale recently
  I love this one. The rest of the book is really fantastic.

• ampersands I like, signage

  ampersandampersand

  12.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This flickr user has cool stuff, so here we go:
  Wooden Ampersand Signage

  R & V

  Office & Chapel

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A scribal abbreviation for and. Derived from the Latin word "et."

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