A bold young entrepreneur changes the fundamental nature of Olympia business, his lucrative innovations flying in the face of conventional wisdom about the exchange of goods and services... Thor is truly a maverick.

I have less trouble with this kind of sign than I do bars and smoke shops advertising. Such a funny country that finds itself so offended by sex. This is still better than all those friggin tampon commercials and valtrex commercials, OH and monistat. At least he's advertising the fun part of sex instead of the gross and/or diseased side. Dunno, maybe I'd be more offended if I had kids, but heck kids do all kinds of funny things and we adults so "No no, don't do that it's icky!" or dirty. Yeah, that's my 2 cents.

I am probably in the minority here but I thought that the sign was tacky and I didn't think it was clever or funny at all. He should stick with telling jokes for change because that's a great idea - I wish I had thought of it myself! But in my opinion - all that sign did was give people more fuel for why down town is so awful, ya know? I'm no prude and I have never told my children that their bodies are "icky" but it just seemed stupid to me.

Thor is a pretty cool guy. As I mentioned in a previous thread, he came by and cooked dinner for all of us at the 8th Ave community about a week ago. We had a really fun time.

I did think the sign was pretty bold, and probably in bad taste.  But really, I saw a few kids (not anyone I recognized; probably not street kids) holding signs on a street corner saying, "Will work for sex".  This wasn't clever or funny.  I actually thought it was quite a bit more offensive than Thor's sign.  But no-one called the cops on them.

The thing that I found truly unfortunate about this article was the fact that some business owner had the gall to call the police on someone for a harmless joke.  I suspect that the caller didn't bother to talk to Thor, either.

We get phone calls at B&R from time to time from business owners downtown who want us to do something about people who are being disruptive nearby their business.  We're usually pretty good about offering to help... but really, would you ever think about calling us with a complaint about your neighbor?  I mean, we're willing to help where we can, but why is it that people are so rarely willing to talk to a homeless person themselves?  It seems to make sense to me that if you have an issue with someone, the most responsible thing to do is to talk to them directly.  Why call someone else?

I didn't have the pleasure of seeing this fellow, but he couldn't have been even close to being as annoying or as hazardous to public safety as the political volunteers who stand on busy street corners with signs and wave. In either case, the joke is on us.