May 03, 2006

• My google-fu is completely failing me right now, but this happened here in the Great White North just the other day, with someone entering the sign "Steven Harper Eats Babies". In time for the budget release, of course.
• MonkeyFilter: we both ended up in a quivering heap on the bed taglines count in an FPP, right? *Gets out GramMa's Book of Tagline Style, 2006 Ed.*
• This is a great idea for that stupid "bridge out" sign down the street. Thanks trac!
• *runs after Koko as she leaves her house No, DON'T DO IT!
• Oh man, this happened somewhere in a 20 mile radius of me! I wish I'd seen it in person. I cannot stop laughing! Thanks, tracicle, and also thanks for the Zug reminder in general.
• thats beautiful. pure art!!
• dammit petebest, you beat me to it! That in itself would make a great road message.
• I'm bored with road signs. When this one Is a block from your house, the rest are sort of an anticlimax.
• this reminds me of when i lived next to the gaping maw of the lincoln tunnel...which only occasionally gave rise to honking traffic fits. well, one day mayor giuliani (hereafter reffered to as 'fucking asshole') plopped one of these signs outside my window with the nasty addition of a loudspeaker proclaiming (in fucking assholes voice) various traffic 'tips' on a constant loop. "drive safely, new york" "tailgating can lead to accidents" "drive slowly and save lives" etc...well, besides being directly below my window, the urgings to drive slowly by a sign THAT WAS TAKING UP AN ENTIRE LANE OF TRAFFIC RIGHT IN FRONT OF ONE OF THE BUSIEST TUNNELS IN THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD...well, lets just say it wasnt the brightest idea fucking asshole ever had. the traffic jam lasted from about 1/2 an hour after they put it in until i finally fixed the speaker with a screwdriver a few days later... god, that giuliani is such a fucking asshole.
• That's President Fucking Asshole to you, buddy.
• Guiliani for President! Loudspeakers on every block! Ugh.
• Excellent stuff! Be sure to see the Guerilla Public Service prank where Richard Ankrom puts up a homemade freeway sign at a major interchange in Los Angeles. An oldie but goodie.
• Also I could have sworn a site with more pics of the Ankrom stunt was MeFi'd or MoFi'd but I can't find it, but at least it has the videos.
• "god, that giuliani is such a fucking asshole." Wait -- sexyrobot calls guilani a fucking asshole, but le tigre calls him a fucking jerk... LOYALTIES -- DIVIDED -- BETWEEN -- MONKEY -- AND LE TIGRE -- MUST -- RECONCILE -- ...
• split the difference, Capt.... he's a fucking jerkhole.
• *GramMa does spit-take on Beef Barley soup. Hell froze over HA!hahahahahahaha
• The Stephen Harper one was on the TTC/Go Transit; the person quoted in the article I read was head of a big right-wing group or think tank. His comment was that in x years of working with Harper, "he never ate a baby". I laughed until I cried, just to see someone able to have a good sense of humour about this. :)
• sexyrobot, I used to live on Main Street of a tiny village with my bedroom on the same level as the loudspeakers outside Village Hall and just across the street. Every year, from November 1 until January 31, they'd pop in an 8-track of "Christmas Around the World". (No, it wasn't before the advent of better types of music distribution. They just still had an 8-track player.) Unfortunately, the 8-track player would almost always get stuck on one track. So from 7 am until 9 pm, at full blast, I listened to an endless rotation of "Christmas in Kilarney", "Mele Kalikimaka" and "White Christmas". Just.Those.Three.Songs. All day and night. For months. Loudly.
• Sidetracks - has misfortune to work in cruise ship terminal occasionally - 9 hour days - 2 cd's Tom Jones and Eagles in rotation. CD player sticks - got Heartache Tonight 11 times in a row...... Failed psych test next day aaaaaaaaaaaaagh. Wish local ratbag could work on tired drivers die electronic sign
• Nifty one man. The ones around here are locked though. Hmm... *gets boltcutter from garage*