Another recurring trope is the social media slang–infused sandwich-board message. I’m talking about “Our iced coffee game is on fleek” and its ilk.

Here's the proof -- words on a sandwich board outside CUPS Coffee & Tea that went to the top of the Reddit online message board.

Seattle restaurant and bar Saint John’s makes a practice of putting out chalk-art sandwich-board signs — some political, some just meant to be funny (like “YOUR WORLD SERIES HQ” with a ...

The sign, once finished, will offer a before-and-after perspective of the results of working out at the gym. The hulking, deadly Terminator robot will be the “after.” “It’s fun. It’s a game.

A survey of signs in the National Historic Landmark District — which includes downtown and uptown — taken in 2007 found that only 45 percent of sandwich-board signs are legal. All sandwich-board signs ...