Who wants to pay duty?

Posted 11 Mar 2010

Daily Life, Signs | 1 Comment 

These neighboring shops in Pondicherry, India offer a very interesting question … to pay duty or not to pay duty? Which would you go for?

But seriously, anyone have any ideas that could explain these two stores’ differing positions on charging duty?

The world’s most technical products

Posted 4 Mar 2010

Clothing, Design, Signs | 2 Comments 

Standing in the shadows of the Limerick Power Station, I saw an advertising poster that caught my attention.

Admittedly, the text is a bit hard to read with the window glare, so here are the salient words again:

ATTENTION!
ATENCION!
ACHTUNG!
ATTENZIONE!

Under Armour makes the world’s most technical products.

So, I think I have to disagree. Surely a nuclear power plant trumps exercise-wear in terms of technical complexity. Okay, I am no scientist, but come on, this one seems obvious.

Sam I Am

Posted 23 Feb 2010

Daily Life, Signs | 6 Comments 

So many questions ran through my mind when I saw this sign.

• If you lost a bird, would you bother putting up “Lost” posters?
• How does one even lose a bird?
• If a bird flew to you for help, would you help it?  How?  (I don’t think it’s instinctual to just grab a random bird flying at you.)
• Can you take a lost bird to the Pound?
• Does it answer to the name Sam?  (Otherwise, why would you put that so many times on the poster?)  Maybe the bird flew away on purpose.
• How much of a reward?
• Can we call the phone number and get some answers?

Poor Sam.

Wish me luck. Wish you luck.

Posted 18 Feb 2010

Commuting, Daily Life, Signs | 7 Comments 

The Good Luck driving school in Mumbai.

A Good Luck driving school student-driver on the roads of Mumbai.

Who do you think the “good luck” is meant for?

When I saw the sign on the school itself, I assumed that the good luck was directed at the person receiving the lessons. However, upon seeing the car on the road, my first thought was that the good luck was directed at all the OTHER drivers on the road at the time.  What about you?

Pot o’ Gold?

Posted 12 Feb 2010

Daily Life, People, Places, Signs | Leave a Comment 

At first, I thought, “Yeah, I suppose a school bus is somehow like a pot of gold.  Ya know, wealthy in knowledge, bright shiny kids, yellow.”  But then it dawned on me. “Ah ha! The pot of gold must be inside!”

Nope.

I looked elsewhere, until my full-spectrum friend pointed to where the leprechaun would hide such a prized object — the depths of an icy and crushing behemoth. Naturally, I jumped in and well, after thawing out, realized that this short man is quite evil.

But alas, by the power of Google, I may have found its rightful home.  Beneath a toll road, in Orange County, in traffic?

It appears that this leprechaun fellow is a boundless evildoer … or a strategic mastermind?