Limp Rear Panacea: The Latest on the Flatbush Marquee

dailyheights · October 2006

This is the latest marquee anagram at American Apparel on Flatbush Ave. Is it supposed to be a criticism of American Apparel customers?

Who is doing the anagrams these days? Way back before American Apparel took over the space, somebody started rearranging letters of the fossilized final film lineup ("VAN HELSING", "MAN ON FIRE" etc.) at the closed Flatbush Pavilion. There was at least some suspicion that it was some sort of "guerilla marketing" stunt to stir interest the new AA store. It came to light that it was two factions, including the guys from Mooney's, and an apparently "competing" Park Slope dad named David Collins.

I haven't been following this for a while. I wonder if the store has taken over the anagramming, or are they just allowing random anagrammers to alter the sign? If it's the former, then why would they allow such an obvious criticism to stay on "their" marquee?

And what's it supposed to be an anagram OF, anyway? Aren't we missing quite a few letters at this point?

doctorj · October 2006

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dailyheights wrote:
And what's it supposed to be an anagram OF, anyway? Aren't we missing quite a few letters at this point?

Ur... is this a trick question? The anagram server gives me 'Limp Rear Panacea' for 'American Apparel' among many other side-splitting combinations, e.g. "Maniacal Perp. Era".

erikka · October 2006

Every time I walk by that place is empty and employees are furiously arranging and rearranging things just to stay busy.

qtrain · October 2006

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doctorj wrote: Ur... is this a trick question? The anagram server gives me 'Limp Rear Panacea' for 'American Apparel' among many other side-splitting combinations, e.g. "Maniacal Perp. Era".

Next up: "Pen me a racial rap".

eastofflatbush · October 2006

Maybe someone will buy the building and turn it into something useful, like a movie theater.

shank bone mystic · October 2006

I second that emotion. Maybe when it opens it could have $5 Mondays and Wednesdays. That would be nice.

dailyheights · October 2006

PS. Split off discussion of SBM's awesome new avatar to its own topic.

rhodamine · October 2006

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qtrain wrote: Next up: "Pen me a racial rap".

this made me lol. i would love seeing this on american apparel...

kristina · October 2006

I'll speak in defense for American Apparel. Sure, their CEO is creepy, and so is their ad campaign. But I still think people should be a little more concerned with the larger issue, which is localization of goods/manufacture(you like the farmer's market, right?), and fair treatment to employees. The garment industry has a long history of abusive practices which mostly occur overseas in countries where it is difficult to monitor.

"As of this writing, some of the factory's experienced garment sewers earn as much as $18 an hour. The average employee on the sewing floor earns over $12.50 an hour, more than double the U.S. federal minimum wage. The company maintains a base pay of $8 an hour for some non-sewing positions, and claims to be steadily raising its lowest tier wage as the company expands. Simultaneously, workers are powering a company that has managed to compete with cheap offshore labor while competitors fold and disappear overseas; American Apparel and the workers within it are thriving."

to read more:http://www.knowmore.org/index.php/American_Apparel,_LLC

rhodamine · October 2006

kristina wrote: I'll speak in defense for American Apparel.

why? what does that have to do with "limp rear panacea" or the anagrams? i dont think anyone was dissing the american apparel business model in this thread.

kristina · October 2006

Maybe someone will buy the building and turn it into something useful, like a movie theater.....

sounds like a knock on the store to me.

anyway the opening question was....
This is the latest marquee anagram at American Apparel on Flatbush Ave. Is it supposed to be a criticism of American Apparel customers?

erikka · October 2006

kristina wrote: Maybe someone will buy the building and turn it into something useful, like a movie theater.....

sounds like a knock on the store to me.

anyway the opening question was....
This is the latest marquee anagram at American Apparel on Flatbush Ave. Is it supposed to be a criticism of American Apparel customers?

What?

The space used to be a movie theatre, and a great, cheap theatre at that. There's this thing called "irony" which is often evoked on the internet ad naseum. Of all the people in Brooklyn, I would fully expect American Apparel shoppers to understand this concept, but it seems I was wrong.

Limp Rear Panacea: The Latest on the Flatbush Marquee

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