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« Reply #105 on: 18:20:11, 04-05-2007 » |
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 In case you can't read it: HOMO SAPIENS NON URINAT IN VENTUM... It's in Amsterdam. |
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« Reply #106 on: 20:53:46, 04-07-2007 » |
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Seen printed on a barbecue during a trip to the garden centre (in Henfield) earlier today: Instructions1. Open lid before lighting  |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #107 on: 21:52:42, 04-07-2007 » |
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I thought of this thread when I saw this on a shop door in Honor Oak Park the other day:
CLOSED FOR UNSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES.
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #108 on: 22:11:20, 04-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #109 on: 22:13:25, 04-07-2007 » |
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And another one that may be useful for the coming Proms?  |
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« Reply #110 on: 22:15:40, 04-07-2007 » |
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Well, it's clearly a message for our cat-like pal o'er the water. But what can it mean??  |
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Green. Always green.
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« Reply #111 on: 22:17:28, 04-07-2007 » |
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One over the eights only, perhaps?  |
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« Reply #112 on: 10:47:05, 06-07-2007 » |
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Foo Fighters Only? |
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« Reply #113 on: 10:49:22, 06-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #114 on: 11:29:11, 06-07-2007 » |
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Yes, although I hadn't realised the government had introduced an age of consent for CCTV filming ...
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #115 on: 11:40:21, 06-07-2007 » |
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In the trains in Sydney there always used to be this notice:
Uniformed and plain clothes police patrol this train.
With something before it, can't remember what (can anyone else?) but it contained the words "in the".
This would regularly be scribbled on selectively so that it read
(in the)
un_formed ___ _____ _______ ___ice ______ __is _rain.
I always found that strangely poetic.
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« Reply #116 on: 11:45:53, 06-07-2007 » |
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Not really a sign at all, but talking of poetic scribblings:
A composer friend of mine has a little hut at the bottom of his garden with a piano in it where he goes to compose (often very early in the morning). He came back from a trip to find someone had broken into the hut, slept on the sofa overnight by the looks of things, and left a note on the piano saying:
'Don't worry about practising. Just enjoy the music.'
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #117 on: 11:47:57, 06-07-2007 » |
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With something before it, can't remember what (can anyone else?) but it contained the words "in the".
interest pf public safety? |
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« Reply #118 on: 12:04:31, 06-07-2007 » |
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In the trains in Sydney there always used to be this notice:
Uniformed and plain clothes police patrol this train.
With something before it, can't remember what (can anyone else?) but it contained the words "in the".
I don't know how long ago you're talking about, Ollie, but my Sydney-born husband told me that the first words he ever read were "Do not spit in the car"- probably on a tram though, not a train. |
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« Reply #119 on: 12:09:17, 06-07-2007 » |
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I think Ron's on the right track, so to speak. The last trams in Sydney were quite a while before my time. I think they only changed that wording in the last couple of years - I left in 2001 but go back pretty regularly and it was only on my last visit I noticed they'd changed it. Just found this one though!  |
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