Yesterday in Chicago I saw this sign. I’ve seen no others like it and cannot figure to what it refers? Bicycling? Begging? Selling? It’s not in any sort of location that would give a clue.
I was amused.
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It refers to people begging for money, it seems to be a greater epidemic here in Chicago.
This means… the people who put the sign there are idiots?
And sellling could refer to the selling of drugs too. I never understood those “drug free zone” signs. Does anyone think a drug dealer is more likely to respect the law because there’s a sign associated with it?
Peddling would be selling, pedaling would be bicycling.
Peddling, as in “Peddling the button on the your camera”. In other words, no standing there taking pictures of this sign!
It might be a sign warning sidewalk vendors not to Peddle their goods there
I was going to ask where this sign is in Chicago, as I’ll be there this weekend…
However, if you can’t peddle, that obviously means you cannot back peddle… so at least I know I shouldn’t look for it near City Hall.
I was looking at an old Mad magazine (Winter 1985 The worst from Mad) yesterday and there’s a guy in there who got fined for peddling pens for 25 cents. ONE AFTERNOON DOWNTOWN ON MAIN STREET, the Don Martin Dept. A beat cop writes the guy a summons for peddling without a license and the pens end up all over the sidewalk. Maybe some bureaucrat was reading Mad and had an idea for a new sign program to stop peddling in the streets.
I bought an umbrella in Washington D.C. from a peddler near the White House after standing in line in the rain for an hour. Nobody was peddling anything to people in line. I guess it was because of security near the gates. Next, they’ll be putting up no umbrella signs because umbrellas are a big security risk. I don’t think anybody in line had an umbrella. Maybe there was some sort of rule saying you can’t take an umbrella into the White House. I just remember a bunch of us standing there cold and wet and the peddler was on the sidewalk once you came out from the tour. The umbrella was five bucks and well worth it.
When referring to a bicycle i believe it is…pedaling.
Peddling is another word for solicitation, selling, specifically, those annoying door to door salespeople that stop by every business and try to sell you their cheap looking tool kit, perfume, cleaning products, or whatever (according to them, usually a really high retail value) for something like $10 because it’s a today only special, or a test marketing thing.
I guess maybe no peddling of you wares. As in, don’t sell your stuff on this street.
A peddler used to be another name for a door-to-door salesman, but i think the sign is banning street vending (hot dog carts, vegetables, flowers, knicknacks,etc.). Street vendors used to be common in Chicago.
I already found a new Google corpse ad.
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From Chicago:
“Peddling” means to peddle, or sell stuff on the street. Our quasi-dictator Daley does not like, in no particular order, sidewalk cafes, people doing naughty things in their cars, people selling foodstuffs from carts, people taking pictures of the Millenium Park sculpture because it’s copyrighted – oy – people making less than 50K per annum, and strict adherence to the Shackman decree.
I have no idea what it means, but i think i want one.
Wonder if t-shirts with this on it would sell???
Peddling is panhandling.
oops. continued from above.
It usually involves the exchange of some small trinket or something such as a pencil so the person handing over the funds feels like they are getting something for their money. The peddler retains some pride because they feel like they are providing something in return for cash and not just a beggar.
Give me a break. It means Streetwise vendors
are encouraged to go away.
i thought you lived in CA?
Your got it, it means no begging, its a bit of an epidemic here, in Chicago, where theres huge disparities between wealthy and poor.
“Pedaling” means riding a bicycle.
“Peddling” means traveling around selling things, like a door-to-door salesman or a guy with jewelry in his trenchcoat. I recommend checking the dictionary http://www.m-w.com .
Pedaling is not the same as peddling.
Consult a dictionary.
It’d be even better if it said “No Paddling“.
Actually… I really wanna see a sign that says, “Don’t Read This.” You could put it up where there are “Slow Children At Play” and really make ’em lag.
so, I take it….it’s a “no free enterprise” zone.
…It means NO FLOWERS BLOOMING….if you look, you can see this is true…not one flower is in the area. After all, this is downtown Chicago, right?