Sign Texts
Chu's signs with colorful, all-caps lettering on a black background are instantly recognizable even by those who know nothing else about him. His signs change from day to day, and tend to go through syntactically-similar phases, with the phrase "12 Galaxies" being his trademark and a constant presence in the signs. In June 2007, Chu broke from this tradition and started replacing this with "85 Galaxies", "130 Galaxies", and "800 Galaxies". At the 2007 Castro Halloween Party, Chu's sign claimed "7,645,000 Galaxies", at MacWorld 2008 he was up to 75,850,000, and at the Iraq War protest on March 19, 2008 he was up to 8,685,000,000.
In his current signs, Chu has replaced "galaxies" with "populations" and lists figures which surpass any normal accounting; he had reached "DESKROTHULLIONS OF POPULATIONS" by 2011, for example.
The earliest of the photos of Chu's signs show his "classic" phase, in which the signs typically read "IMPEACH 12 Galaxies Guiltied to a Rocket Society", where was typically a living-or-dead former U.S. president, and was something along the lines of "Zegnatronic", "Omegalogical", etc. The very earliest examples are handwritten, for instance:
Impeach
Clinton
12 Galaxies
Guiltied to a
Dectrological
Rocket Society
Later versions:
Impeach
Clinton
12 Galaxies
Guiltied to a
Zegnatronic
Rocket Society
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