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THIS Is Supposed to be Funny??

Jersey City gym's chalkboard signs create 'laughing fit' thanks to comic's sayings

Published: Monday, June 18, 2012, 3:00 AM

  By M.G. De Guzman / The Jersey Journal 

For a small gym in Downtown Jersey City, Synergy Fitness on Newark Avenue gathers an unexpected amount of attention thanks to their comical chalkboard signs.

“Shed pounds faster than John Boehner sheds tears” and “We’ll ruin your sumo career” are only a few examples of Joe D’Allegro attempts at comical marketing.

Often topical in nature, D’Allegro’s humorous tags have even gathered the attention of CBS, AdWeek, and various blogs.

“It’s snarky, but I try not to be overtly mean or cruel,” said D’Allegro, a former Synergy employee. “I have to be careful not to offend anyone.”

A journalist by trade, D’Allegro works as a freelance writer for a financial publishing company but pursues comedy as a hobby.

He’s taken comedy writing classes and created a comic strip for the Hudson Current.
“I don’t have the gumption to do standup, but advertising is a way to make people laugh and to make a living, and I like to do both,” he says.

Though it’s hard to tell the effect his signs have on Synergy membership sales, it is clear that the signs are popular with locals. Some people even come in to make comments.
D’Allegro started making the signs after noticing people taking pictures with the celebratory tag written for Barack Obama’s win during the 2008 presidential election.

“You get no feedback online, but seeing people laugh it’s great,” D’Allegro said.
“Anything that brightens someone’s day is just great, and seeing the reaction is lovely.”

Currently, D’Allegro produces comedy shows at Lamp Post Bar & Grille in Jersey City and Hell’s Kitchen Lounge in Newark.

 

 

Memorial Day 2012

Bruce Tinsley and his creation, Mallard Filmore, best express the thought for today.

Oh, joy. Another redesign of Blogger.

We've been suffering with the flu in this house since late April, and even though hubby is back at work he's still coughing, and my cough has now triggered the asthma so it's coughing AND wheezing. It's hot in the apartment because nobody has the strength to put the air conditioners in the windows so the bedroom hovers in the low to mid-90's. It doesn't matter much - I stay awake half the night coughing, anyway.

I guess I should be grateful the weather has been so weird, with a warmer than usual winter, milder and longer than usual spring, only because we can survive without the AC's for this long, at least during the day.

But it's this weird weather that's most likely the reason I've been sick for 12 (and counting) out of the 22 weeks of 2012.

And I HAD my flu shot last fall! Imagine how sick I would have been if I DIDN'T have the inoculation!

Miss Fat and Beautiful Contest

This video is for all those people who claim there were no fatties prior to the 1980's.

Now THESE are the sized women I remember from my youth in the 1950's and '60's. THESE women could come to a reunion of either side of my family and fit right in.

125 Reasons to Watch SyFy Channel's Show HAVEN

Spring is Here; More Weight Rants

Well, since we were having spring-like temps throughout most of winter, I guess we went from autumn to spring. Not that I'm complaining!

I've been obsessing over my weight again and the lack of weight loss no matter what I do. I even spent a week eating nothing but fruits, beans and veggies, staying hungry the entire time (while awaiting "real" hunger, not the "toxic" hunger that comes from the body ridding itself from toxins) and besides being shaky, fuzzy-headed, paranoid, tense, and having chest pains from the stress of starvation, I lost a whopping - ready for it? - 2 pounds. I ended this failed experiment by making a pot of spaghetti and vegan meatballs. My husband was happy (He eats what I serve him for dinner and fills up on junk food later on) and my tummy was certainly happy.

I then started searching other web sites for other food plans to follow that might jump-start weight loss.

I glanced over my personal journal and saw that my weight has been stable, within the same 20 pound range, for almost 30 years, with only a few exceptions. Actually, it's been in that weight range since I graduated high school in 1971! I went up 20 pounds higher twice, after injuries that left me unable to exercise, and twice down only 10 pounds during periods of long-term semi-starvation on diets very similar to what I just experimented with and an hour of exercise daily. The weight never stayed that low for long and started coming back on immediately with no change in eating, usually because an injury that kept me from doing that much exercise.

It is so not worth it!!

I'm almost 60 years old. When will I stop behaving like an eating disordered teenager? I guess when society and the medical profession finally accepts the fact that you CAN be fat and healthy.