(chinese) men at work
posted by blahgstein at 6:47 PM
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
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- Name: blahgstein
"a society for giggling and making giggle called the Soaping Club; 'let every man soap his own beard' being (at least on Boswell's testimony) the current slang equivalent of Fay ce que vouldras."
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1 Comments:
Heh! How unexpected. I guess it's not any more ridiculous than using a shadow figure with a triangular torso to mean "lady's room" and one with a square torso to mean "men's room". But in the west (or the USA anyway?) that kind of hat seems to have a vaguely negative, almost racist, connotation. Maybe that's why the sign is so unexpected?
Are we sure the hat isn't just a directional arrow, pointing up and to the left, superimposed on the top half of his body? :-)
A friend and I once decided to interpret all road signs with arrows as stories about planaria worms. So that familiar one-arrow-veers-off while another-arrow-goes-straight became "Planarias have a falling out"; or a sign indicating that two-way traffic is starting up again became "Two planarias passing in the night"; or that familiar curves-ahead sign with the squiggly body topped by an arrow was "Planaria just ate something disagreeable". Endless fun. I think the technique might have potential for other kinds of road signs.
-K
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