<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Owner Posts Racially Offensive Sign to Keep out Gangs : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>51304</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51304/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Owner Posts Racially Offensive Sign to Keep out Gangs]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Fort Worth man said he is trying to keep gang members out of his business with a large sign telling them to keep out.<br/>Some people say the sign is racially offensive, and they want it taken down. The message refers to African Americans in a derogatory manner.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>210</score><crdate>2/19/2008 7:16:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-19T19:16:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54332</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/54332/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sign Sign everywhere a sign ]]></title><description><![CDATA[And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply<br/>So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why<br/>He said you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you'll do<br/>So I took off my hat I said imagine that, huh, me working for you]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>205</score><crdate>3/14/2008 11:38:33 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-14T11:38:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17168</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17168/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Dad makes son wear sign for using drugs]]></title><description><![CDATA[A father says he wasn't trying to shame his 14-year-old son when he made the boy wear a large sandwich-board sign saying, &quot;I abused and sold drugs.&quot;]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>78</score><crdate>4/20/2007 11:33:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-20T11:33:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26309</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/26309/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mock funeral to 'bury' offensive words]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Decades have passed since the mass marches of the civil rights and women's lib movements. But it's still common to hear chart-topping songs that contain casual but offensive terms for African Americans and women.&quot;<br/><br/>It's interesting that the article talks about &quot;offensive words, but only mentions one.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>61</score><crdate>7/5/2007 12:12:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-05T12:12:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>73851</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/73851/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Right to Life group claims its DNC sign is Guinness record]]></title><description><![CDATA[American Right to Life Action, an anti-abortion group, claims to have displayed the largest ever protest sign in history, towering over the Democratic National Convention in Denver at 530 feet tall and 666 feet wide.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>320</score><crdate>8/27/2008 3:27:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-27T15:27:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10601</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/10601/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A sign that essentially says &quot;don't hit your head on this sign.&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[In other words, there would be no need for the warning, if the self-referential warning sign didn't exist.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>117</score><crdate>2/11/2007 7:27:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-11T19:27:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13379</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/13379/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Sign Language at your fingertips, anytime, anywhere]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mobilesign.org is a video dictionary with over 5,000 British Sign Language signs.  Produced by staff at the Centre for Deaf Studies, it is a mobile accessory to people who work with Deaf people, have Deaf customers or just want to learn to sign.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>50</score><crdate>3/16/2007 2:55:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-16T14:55:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>55036</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55036/1/</url><title><![CDATA[&quot;Speak English&quot; Sign Labeled Not Discriminatory]]></title><description><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44484/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Remember</a> the story of Geno's cheesesteak shop and his sign instructing customers to speak english when ordering?<br/><br/> Despite claims that such a sign was racist and discriminatory, that it might offend someone's feelings, it was determined that a sign was within the bounds of free speech. Actually refusing to service a customer due to language would be a different story.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>211</score><crdate>3/20/2008 10:28:11 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-20T10:28:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>60782</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60782/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hump road sign slightly misleading]]></title><description><![CDATA[A road sign depicting two people in a passionate embrace above the word &quot;hump&quot; has angered VicRoads.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>349</score><crdate>5/6/2008 8:32:27 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-06T08:32:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>33522</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33522/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Council erects sign that tells drivers: Don't trust your satnav]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the village of St Hilary, a succession of trusting lorry drivers have followed their satnav down a narrow, bendy lane - only to find they are stuck. But there's help on the way - and not in the form of a tow truck. Instead, the authorities have put up a sign warning drivers not to believe everything their satellite navigation tells them.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>112</score><crdate>8/28/2007 9:36:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-28T21:36:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>62578</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/62578/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Lucky fliers see escape as sign from God]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two Blenheim men who ran out of fuel high above the Marlborough Sounds are thanking divine intervention for getting them down safely - right next to a six-metre sign proclaiming &quot;Jesus is Lord&quot;.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>272</score><crdate>5/20/2008 10:24:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-20T22:24:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49147</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49147/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Editorial attitude from an Interstate Sign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Video of an interstate sign giving more information that just how long delays are expected to last.<br/><br/>It being the slightly temperamental LiveLeak, here's a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a2_1201866388" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">direct link</a> to the video.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>89</score><crdate>2/1/2008 10:48:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-01T10:48:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>35652</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35652/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Offensive drawings? (NSFW)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Offensive Drawings?. OMG is that a... oh, it`s just a man`s face. Probably NSFW.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>289</score><crdate>9/14/2007 8:13:26 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-14T08:13:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80774</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/80774/1/</url><title><![CDATA[E-mail error ends up on road sign]]></title><description><![CDATA[When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>657</score><crdate>10/31/2008 7:19:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-31T19:19:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49713</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49713/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Boy forced to hold 'I was rude' sign]]></title><description><![CDATA[Marcia Harvey made her son stand across the road from his school in the US city of Jacksonville, in Florida, with a sign that said &#8220;I was rude to my teacher, I can&#8217;t come to school, I&#8217;m sorry&#8221;.<br/><br/>Video included.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>539</score><crdate>2/7/2008 7:52:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-07T07:52:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>34013</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34013/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Florida man builds sign to oust neighbor.]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Glen Cook is a thief and drug user. 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I smell a bored teenager on summer break.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>36</score><crdate>7/23/2007 7:11:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-23T07:11:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>32137</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/32137/1/</url><title><![CDATA[After 20 years, county takes down misspelled &quot;maintance&quot; sign]]></title><description><![CDATA[The head of the sign shop said he didn't know how the sign had come to be misspelled in the first place, whether it was accidental or intentionally misspelled to fit the long word on the sign.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>107</score><crdate>8/18/2007 11:10:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-18T23:10:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>19010</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19010/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Aussies sign up to ban telemarketing calls]]></title><description><![CDATA[So many people rushed to sign up online for the Australian government's do-not-call registry, they caused a computer crash. 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