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April 13, 2005

'love the wardrobe, darling'

After confusing Mai and Hanna with the mad king's doctors, I just saw another nice syntactic ambiguity: 'Patient Transport Service' on the side of an ambulance-like van. Reminded me of the classic 'theatrical removals' truck.

B-)

Posted by Billy at April 13, 2005 9:37 AM

Comments

Yes - causes one to wonder (or perhaps oneder)if the bureacrats who come up with these things actually read them! I'm irrestably reminded of roadsigns, the diamond-shaped "danger yellow" kind, located on some particularly steep and winding roads (especially in Queensland, Australia):
"Do not stop falling rocks"

Posted by: lingweenie at February 3, 2006 11:40 PM

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