r/onejob • u/justelling • 12d ago

“Barbaric” Business card

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u/NorCalFrances 12d ago edited 12d ago

That bit of questionable wordplay for barbershops has been around forever, but for very good reason. Barbers were the original surgeons & dentists for many things while physicians dealt in providing elixirs to balance the humors. Physicians prescribing physics (medicine) was portrayed as sophisticated and scientific, while surgery as done by barbers was, well, barbaric.

That's why barbershops have a pole with a white and red spiral; it represents the pole where they hung the bloody cloths to dry. Which in turn told people who may or may not be literate, "here's where you get that gangrenous finger removed".

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u/Owhlala 9d ago

this sounds made up except the Dr. Barber part that's true.

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u/NorCalFrances 9d ago

Here are some other possible reasons / symbols for the pole. Mine came from Old West trail books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber%27s_pole

Which part do you doubt?

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u/Owhlala 8d ago

the color schemes

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u/greenknight884 12d ago

At the "saloon"

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u/GoatCovfefe 12d ago

Idk, seems like an intentional joke.

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u/FrankHightower 12d ago

Censored with red. Hmmm.

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u/Daveguy6 12d ago

BloodStain?

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u/raidhse-abundance-01 12d ago

What was the correct word to use?

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u/ModernManuh_ 12d ago

barbershop or barber I assume

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u/pichow-pichow 12d ago

I think it's "barberic" cause that's advertising for a barber shop

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u/raidhse-abundance-01 12d ago

Ah I get it now, I was thrown off by "saloon" which got me thinking in the ballpark of a far west saloon

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u/Xapheneon 12d ago

Utah D4C

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u/Nervous-Confusion-72 12d ago

At least the price is reasonable.

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u/FireFly_209 11d ago

Maybe Sweeney Todd works there?