The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37303 Message #2821418
Posted By: Don Firth
25-Jan-10 - 06:01 PM
Thread Name: Daft instructions
Subject: RE: Daft instructions
Back in the late 1950s, almost all of the classrooms in the University of Washington School of Music building had a record player in them for obvious reasons. The instructions for use were pasted under the lid. The first instruction was, "Lift lid."
A photographer friend of mine liked to take photos of various odds and ends, then sequence them so they told a story of sorts. One was of a series of street signs, which he sequenced as follows:
One Way
No Left Turn
No Right Turn
No U-Turn
Dead End
He got another good one. Normally the sign read:
DANGER ZONE
IMPOUND PARKED CARS
Some wiseguy had scratched out some of the letters, so it now read:
ANGER ZONE
I POUND PARKED CARS
Don Firth