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Contest: Come Up with the Lusty Lady’s Final Marquee!

News   April 14, 2010 at 12:19 pm Josh Feit

This was originally posted on Monday.

As we noted in Morning Fizz, the Lusty Lady is closing. Since the Lusty Lady is famous for its playfully dirty marquee puns—like “W.T. Ohhhhhhh” during the W.T.O. riots or “Nobody’s Wearing Green” on St. Patrick’s Day or “Stroke of Midnight” whenever—we’ve decided to do a contest.  What should the final marquee say?

It’s Seattle’s version of the New Yorker cartoon caption contest.

The winner gets a pair of tickets to to the April 16th Darktime Sunshine show at Neumos, where the the lineup is stacked (!) Not only are DTS performing, but local production king Jake One is spinning and Mash Hall, the Saturday Knights, Helladope, Night Fox, and DJ Swervewon are on the bill as well. Tickets are still available but come up with the punniest dirty ending and they’re yours.

Send your submissions (ha!) to info@publicola.net.


  • Michael W.

    I think someone already came up with this on another site but I think it's perfect:

    Thanks for the Mammaries!

  • Josh Feit

    I like this: Easy come, easy go.

  • Aaron

    So long, and thanks for all the tush.

  • Aaron

    Others, after some searching:
    (some actual quotes… some puns)
    “We only part to meet again.” ~John Gay
    “Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.” ~Emily Dickinson

    “Saying goodbye to the hardest things”
    “Happy tails to you, until we meet again.”

  • JH

    “It's been swell”
    OR
    “We've reached the end of our tail.”

  • HoustonCL

    And we're off like a prom dress…

  • BELow

    we came, we saw, and then we came again.

  • Brennen

    “after giving you 40 hard years its our job to give you a happy ending!”

  • Bob Frankorlou

    “So long, bare well”

  • elaineinballard

    “you can't come here anymore”

  • Matt_the_Engineer

    Sorry, we're clothed.

  • taint

    spanks for the mammaries!

  • MarciaFS

    Sorry, we're closed. Beat it!

  • ann6219

    Was it as good for you as it was for us?

  • vonb

    Coming soon: lusty imports

    Excuse the lust — the bank is remodeling

    Coming soon: plain clothes parking attendants

  • ann6219

    We are leaving the erogenous zone…

  • Matt_the_Engineer

    Not enough people came here.

    Clothing.

  • Jim

    We came, we saw and then we came again!

  • Jim

    We came, we saw, we shaked our ass!

  • JB

    Bare today, gone tomorrow.

  • T_L_A

    Barewell Seattle. We went tits up literally and figure-atively!

    (and then they should partner with starbucks on a Lusty Lady marquee coffee table book to be sold with photos of all the signs over the years)

  • ap

    -Easy come, easy go.

    -Last chance to come inside.

    -We're busting out of here.

  • Franco

    “We've Gone Tits Up”

  • Franco

    “We've Gone Tits Up”

  • emmabeth

    it's the rear end of an era

  • gw98101

    “Lust hits the Dust for Us—We'd Rather be Coming Than Going”

  • randypinkwood

    Seattle was too hard for us

  • randypinkwood

    Seattle was a hard master

  • randypinkwood

    Clothes until further notice

  • randypinkwood

    Thanks Seattle!
    After 30 years, we are clothed.

  • vonb

    – be swell
    – friend me on faceboink
    – mounting up riding off
    – snatch ya later
    – send me a she-male

  • steve

    It's been a business doing pleasure with you!

  • hedonikos

    We needed a stimulus in that package.

  • http://www.nosnivelling.com daveschappell

    Lusty Lady goes down amid hard times

  • MrJame

    We're pulling out.

  • notafiree

    what?? no one with a '(coitus) interruptus' based pun yet?

  • structos

    Thanks Seattle, but it's time to Clothes!

  • tedwardma

    bone voyage

  • preuhl

    Bite me Seattle.

  • noelbows

    ta ta

  • buddsmom

    Clothing, clothing…..gone.

  • http://www.seattleuntimely.com charlie

    And in the End, The Lust you Make is Equal to the Bust You Shake.

    - This would require both sides of the marquee.

  • JK

    “Going down for the cunt.”

  • DJ

    A long, hard goodbye

    No more teasin' A

  • billythefridge

    It's hard but good buy!

  • DJ

    We're blowing town

  • JK

    “It's Oh-Oh-Over.”

  • DJ

    We're Gone – Get a Grip!

    No nudes is NOT good news

  • DJ

    The orifice is closed!

  • skcme

    1st Ave has lost its grit. Now it's lost its tits.

  • vonb

    – we shall overcome

  • vonb

    – bouncing
    – off to join the rogue inserterection
    – pants 0% off
    – bring back pacific rim jobs

  • tedwardma

    don't come around here no more

  • peewee

    Will the last one out, turn on the lights.

  • hmmm

    Piece

  • DJ

    Pelvis has left the building

  • afgetsit

    Will there be an official contest from the Lusty Lady?? I have a bunch of ideas:
    - It's the end of our tail.
    - It's hard to say goodbye.
    - It was good while you lasted.
    - Time to say goodbye. Don't get soft on us.
    - The daily grind is over.

    And my eloquent favorite…
    - Goodbye Seattle. No one will ever top us.

  • magdaddy

    - Arrivaderriereci!
    - Lust our lease

  • vonb

    – assonance for national poetry month
    – another tax ride off
    – schwinging out of business
    – get your screwvenirs here

  • vonb

    – sway the erectorate to your cause

  • DJ

    27 years and you never noticed our eyes

    Thanks for stopping and staring

    A special thanks for all our peeps

  • JK

    “Turn on the lights, the par-tease ohhh-ver.”
    “36 Double L-vis has left the building.”
    “The end of a hard lust story.”
    “Going out of bushness.”
    “Goodnight, sweat prints.”
    “The cock strokes twelve.”
    “The stroke of midnight.”
    “Happy Tails.”

  • DJ

    The lust you trust went bust.

  • DJ

    Your sighs mattered.

    We were happy to see you too.

  • JK

    “No quarter.”

  • JK

    “The bust stops here.”

  • JC

    Thanks for Cumming, God bless and good night.

  • DJ

    We'll miss watching your eyes drop while your heads rise

    Thanks for looking in on us

    We showed our rears all those years and ended up in arrears.

  • Richard Hugo

    Alright, y'all…

    “It was PUN while it lasted.”

  • chrisvandyk

    Old Wangs Sigh, My Friends, Til We See You Again

  • DJ

    We're closed.
    Go take a cold shower.

  • DC_Darren

    Read our lips, “We're closed”

  • DJ

    Good bye.
    We'll see you in your dreams.

  • DC_Darren

    Closed to the Pubic

  • George

    Closed for Private Party

  • Travelaholic

    The Lady's Going Down

  • Clover's Boy

    “WHERE EVERY MISS IS A HIT…”
    “…AND EVERY HIT WILL BE MISSED”

  • dubble_a_ron

    Asses to Ashes,
    Bust to Dust