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<\/div>\nThe sign shows where used tampons should go. Probably. Anyway, what is far more interesting to me is the relative scale of the woman and the tampon. I can only imagine what Charles Dickens would have made of it.<\/p>\n
“What’s to-day?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him.<\/p>\n
“EH?” returned the boy, with all his might of wonder.<\/p>\n
“What’s to-day, my fine fellow?” said Scrooge.<\/p>\n
“To-day! Why, CHRISTMAS DAY.”<\/p>\n
“It’s Christmas day!” said Scrooge to himself…. “Hallo, my fine fellow!”<\/p>\n
“Hallo!” returned the boy.<\/p>\n
“Do you know the Poulterer’s, in the next street but one, at the corner?” Scrooge inquired.<\/p>\n
“I should hope I did,” replied the lad.<\/p>\n
“An intelligent boy! A remarkable boy! Do you know whether they’ve sold the prize Tampon that was hanging up there? Not the little prize Tampon, — the big one?”<\/p>\n
“What, the one as big as me?” returned the boy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yes, young man. The one as big as you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m fascinated by the icons used on signs and notices. Their attempts to replace written words with pictorial representations run the gamut from spot-on to terrible. The ones with stick figures are often parodied, but nothing beats the real thing. For an example, I give you the sign I saw in the airplane toilet on … Continue reading Blame This Post on the Lack of Caffeine<\/span>