You must remember this / a kiss is just a kiss / a sign is just a sign: an enormous collection of Do Not Disturb signs.

The article says this about the collector: "Before that, I had started keeping spoons with airline logos/names from some of my flights, and although I have several hundred, it never took off as a collection," he continues. "I also have hundreds of toilet seat bands from hotels. Some of them are quite interesting, but these, too, are not a formal collection." Got that? Several hundred airplane spoons, but it's not a collection.

I have my own collection of door hangars. It consists of one (1) example, and here it is.

Rather generic. The Flores collection is much richer, and this one stood out:

Ah, the Tangney chain. An Iowa hosteler now forgotten. Says the caption:

Yes, you could sing along to it, if you could read music. But here's the thing: they were betting on people knowing the melody already.

It's at 1:36. It's not even part of the song, just something the background vocals toss in.

But: you'll note that the sign repeats the line, moving it down a step. That made me wonder whether the Vallee quote was actually a reference to another song. It was. Chorus of "Please Let Me Sleep":

That song came out in 1931, a year before Vallee recorded the Herman Hupfeld song. (He also wrote "As Time Goes By," which explains the first line of this post.)

So there you go. Absolutely nothing you can work into casual conversation this week. Or ever.