Tanks A Lot
Businesses all over look for memorable names. Many go with puns, since a funny play on words will stick in your mind. Tanks A Lot is a blog full of punny business names, like restaurants named Beau Thai, Thai Ranosaurus, Thai Foon, or Tongue Thai’d (wonder what kind of food they serve?) or eyeglass stores named Specs Appeal or You and Eye. Link
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Pictograms
Are you familiar with the International System of Typographic Picture Education? It’s what we call pictograms. The system featuring a round-headed man was invented by Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath and German artist Gernd Arntz, who called them “Isotypes” for short. The round-headed man became popularly known as “Helvetica Man”. By 1974, there were so many variant signs that the US Transportation Department looked at them all and came up with a single cohesive system for their use. Read more in this explanation of the history and usage of pictograms, particularly in the US National Park System. Link -via Metafilter
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Baffling Toilet Signs
New signs for a public loo in Winchcombe, England have people scratching their heads. The infographic resembles a skier with poles, or a man on an escalator. The words “ambulant urinal” convey the idea of a urinal that walks.
Barbara Heard, from Gretton Road, Winchcombe, said she failed to understand how the signs could have been sanctioned by Tewkesbury Borough Council.
She said: “Does anyone have any idea what these signs mean?
“My husband and I regard ourselves as fairly intelligent but we have no idea.
“What will our overseas visitors will make of these signs?
Chris Pike of the Tewkesbury Borough Council says “ambulant” restrooms are larger than standard, and are “intended for people who may be partially disabled but cannot access the full disabled unit.” Link -via Arbroath
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Signspotting: Stickman to the Rescue!
The following is a collaboration with Signspotting, a website dedicated to weird and funny signs by Doug Lansky Somehow we're expected to navigate the road and pick up the traffic nuances - perhaps even adjust to a steering wheel on the opposite side of the car while driving on the opposite side of the road - all before the first lane change. All this is, of course, before you even throw a few wacked-out signs into the equation: the road-side traffic symbols that look more confusing than psych-test ink blots, mangled English, and the occasional screwball posting that almost stops us in our tracks (if we could just locate the brakes fast enough in that rental car!). At least the stickfigures are easy to understand, often suffering miserably so that we might stay safe. 1. Way Off Piste
2. Wheelchair vs. Alligator
How many unattended relatives, you suppose, rolled to their tragic fate before local officials were prompted to put up this sign? 3. Officers Can Get a Little Frisky
4. Messiah Crossing?
5. World's Most Uncomfortable Ski Lift
You decide: uncomfortable chairlift or ski-in/ski-out medical clinic 6. Um, No Lap Dancing? No Red Underwear?
May look like a “no lap dancing” sign, but this is actually asking women not to urinate here. Presumably topless urination is common in this part of Croatia. 7. Warning: Giant Spikes!
C’mon, jump in! It’s not like there are giant spikes in the water specially placed to spear you in the nether regions. 8. It's Raining Men
Location: Mertola, Portugal __________
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Typographical Bird Houses
It’s springtime and birds are building nests in commercial advertising signs. Inquiring minds want to know: do birds have a favorite font?
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The Cemetery of No
The Linden Hill United Methodist Cemetery, located between Bushwick, Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens, take themselves very seriously. They’ve got strict rules regulating … well, everything!
It seems that about the only thing you can do at the cemetery is be dead. Oh, wait – they’ve probably got a rule against that too.
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Safety Graphic Fun
I am so obsessed with safety graphics–those little pictographs showing, quite graphically, what will happen to you and your body part if you get too close, operate machinery incorrectly or stand in the wrong place at the wrong time–that I had to start a blog to share them all.
Safety Graphics appear where you might expect them to: on a wood chipper or a cement truck. They also appear where you least expect them: on coffee makers and washing machines.
Look for the warning signs! Crushing, burns, serious injury, electrocution and death are right around the corner at all times.
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How to Hack Construction Signs
Ever wonder how to make the construction light signs change their text? Now you can with these handy instructions:
“It will ask you for a password. Try “DOTS”, the default password.
In all likelihood, the crew will not have changed it. However if they did, never fear. Hold “Control” and “Shift” and while holding, enter “DIPY”. This will reset the sign and reset the password to “DOTS” in the process. You’re in”
Am I the only one that thinks maybe, just maybe, these things should be a little harder to change? They usually are protected with a tiny lock, and sometimes that’s not even on there. What if the sign above was trying to warn the whole road was blocked and people laughed and kept driving 65?
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