Sun 20 Jul 2008
Clarification
Posted by anaglyph under Signs
[10] Comments
Picture courtesy of Anne Arkham. She brings to our attention the consideration of the sign makers in making sure that a pictorial representation was included for the illiterate and those from non-English speaking countries.
And smell-challenged dogs, I guess.
Glad I saw that sign, I thought it was a toaster.
It’s full of Holy water.
Glad I saw that sign, I thought it was a chocolate fountain.
I can see how this might easily be confused with a Polanski Butt Plug.
Living in the Northeast US, I can explain this. Snow, Snow covers the hydrants, but up here we just have a small reflector on a 6′ pole.
MI: I used to have a much better toaster than that.
Atlas: I guess it’s for dousing Hellfire.
Cissy Strutt: Chocolate fountains are for putting out hot curries. Wait… maybe that’s yoghurt fountains?
Mike: Mostly only by Polanski (and on reflection, there’s something unsettling about the proximity of chocolate fountains to Polanski butt plugs).
Malach: What is this ‘snow’ of which you speak?
I was thinking the snow thing too, but not in Australia. Perhaps its for when the rabbit depth hits 4 feet.
And did you ever reveal why you put red beans and rice in your toaster?
Colonel: The photo does in fact come from the US, so Malach is probably correct. As a point of cultural interest, our hydrants tend to be completely ‘invisible’. I’ll try and take a photo at some stage – hydrants are mostly indicated by a small letter on a pole and I think the hydrant valve is under a plate in the ground at the bottom of the pole.
So our dogs wander around holding it in until they can’t wait, and then mostly pee on my car. Apparently.
Oh, and the red beans & rice in the toaster wasn’t actually intentional. In my house up in Sydney, the microwave was on a shelf above the toaster – I was toasting some corn bread while heating some red beans & rice (very good red beans & rice I like to think) in the microwave. I took out the container with said comestibles and it was very hot (as things often are coming straight from the microwave). This caused me to spill the whole lot directly into the toaster, which didn’t like the fact that I was asking it to toast corn bread and red beans & rice at the same time. So it made very flashy smokey effects, and blew all the fuses in the house.
When I was out fixing the fuse, my neighbour poked his head over the fence and said cheerily “Mmmm, something smells mighty good!”
The toaster was wrecked.
The Metropolis was the eventual casualty of an even worse toaster incident. It involves the Spawn and is quite disgusting. Suffice to say that there is no end to his capacity for Evil.