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I think that tank car is an old Buick Riviera. Like this one.
http://www.bluntgraffix.com/buick-riviera/buick-riviera-classics-63-73.htm
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A dish of... something - this is a place setting from
The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. It's the setting for Virginia Woolf.
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I think the pea map is a take on "visualize world peace."
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Great collection. However, the "Please present your Octopus" sign is actually not misworded - the Octopus is the name of the metro card in Hong Kong.
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I can see why you'd include 'Swastik Spices', given the reference to Jewtown, but the swastika depicted is bent in the opposite direction from the version of the Hakenkreuz appropriated by the Third Reich.
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The "Kittens" one is from Ireland - I recognise the logo of the local Electricity Supply Board (ESB) on there. But it's probably a spoof, not an official sign. (They have Lawyers here too!)
The Swastika has been a good luck symbol in India for thousands of years, and is not associated with the Nazis there. My company sent me to Bangalore to give some training, and we celebrated the opening of a new department while I was there. We had cake, and the paper plates had little swastikas on them! Only slightly weird ...
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The Chinese one (blue background, white traffic paths) showing 5 lanes that go left, straight, straight, left, right is presumably legitimate. While I haven't seen that particular sign I have seen plenty of them like that. Turn lanes in the wrong part of the road are common on very wide roads. You can only go on a turn arrow so you don't actually get crossing traffic stream.
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those Super Fun High Quality Chopsticks do have a reputation for interesting deaths, so better be warned.
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the "Bad Hotel" is for sure in Germany, Bad means Bath in german.
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The yellow one, showing someone going headfirst off a bicycle, is perfectly reasonable. The problem happens when there are trolley tracks (or railway tracks) built into the street. Effectively, there are long slots in the pavement, and the slots are wider than a bicycle tire. A bicycle can cross them easily if it travels exactly at right angles. But if you foolishly try to cross the trolley tracks at any other angle, your front tire may drop into the slot, and over the handlebar you go.
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I particularly like the "Speed Limit Enforced By Sniper"... thanks for sharing all the strange signs from all over the world.
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The one below the ladder in the middle of the road isn't crazy, it's just two fairly common and perfectly normal signs here in the UK. The top one is obvious - no U-turns allowed. The second one is the symbol for a clearway (a road where no stopping is allowed). The end shows that the sign refers to the end of a clearway.
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These are hilarious. I think my favorite are the ones for the senior center!
I also recognized a few from NY. The one for the G subway stop and the signs on the Van Wyck Expressway which collapsed. I wonder when that was. Thanks for posting the collection.
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http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/TdWdpMSAKGI/AAAAAAABedc/nA0aoVr1SBI/s640/e4t5gwerfwefwef.jpg
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Octopus is a type of electric money card in hong kong. It makes paying for bus fares and such much more easy. Think of it as a oister card from britan. That type of thing.
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Fun fact...for cog railways that are steam powered, great effort has to be put into ensuring the boiler remains level. If it doesn't, and the firebox (where the coal or oil is burned to produce heat for the engine) is left uncovered, then the metal components can overheat and create an explosion hazard. That's why cog steam locomotives are designed to either sit level, or at least so that their boilers set level, during the course of their ascent/descent.
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Really enjoyed this article, Avi! I come from the West Riding of Yorkshire and there's definitely plenty of railway history around there. Also check out funicular railways - popular in the Welsh mountains I believe, at least once, and driven by a cable, so slightly different to the rack/cog but same principle.
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I've been up Snowdon twice on the trains. Fascinating stuff!
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I would like to share an other interesting cog railway!
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budav%C3%A1ri_Sikl%C3%B3
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Cog railways are also called rack railways. The earliest cog-driven railway was actually in the UK in 1812: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway
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hmmm... I love DRB but on this latte...
Why do the Testing brakes videos from Boeing and Airbus end in such a dramatic different way ?
Aren't you bias ?
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*Libya
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The movie gifs creep me out. People staring, blinking now and then. I was expecting someone to sprout fangs and scream the ears off my head.
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I'm pretty sure the "Vampire Rabbit" is meant to be a Vorpal Bunny and is a Monty Python reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Caerbannog
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A gargoyle has a water spout coming out of it. If there's no water spout, it's called a grotesque.
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nice pics! i have some too: https://picasaweb.google.com/Eduardoyamin/CarasDeBuenosAires#
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Do you know this one.
Built on the occasion of the construction site of restoration of the cathedral Saint Jean, in Lyon (France), it is in the effigy of Ahmed, leader of the construction site for 30 years, and accompanied in French and in Arabic of the registration" God is great". That maid a little discord for some reason.
Here is a link to the photo :
http://www.france-info.com/IMG/jpg/e/b/b/gargouille_franceinfo.jpg
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"The photographer", in the cathedral of Palencia (Spain):
http://picasaweb.google.com/ttorcas/Palencia#5320800765405224866
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an asshole gargoyle, on the cathedral of the city of Guarda, Portugal:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nTAiYXUI0OU/TdJPGpGY4RI/AAAAAAAAC2g/0wL-bYt8LYU/s1600/cu_Guarda1.jpg
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Look at these two little men on a rooftop in Manchester.
No one knows very much about them but here's an article
http://hayleyflynn.tumblr.com/post/4965672483/skyliner-3
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I think the first pic in the "Extreme flying" was from the movie the Blues Brothers... that looks like the Chicago lakefront with Lake Michigan and the car from the film
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Hello, here is blog http://www.2m40.com/ which is (more or less) dedicated to all accidents located in a precise tunnel on the prestigious Champs Elysées in Paris.
The service in charge of the Culture doesn't want to put huge traffic signs in front of the Arc de Triomphe.
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The "mystery yacht+car / what happened here" scene is from Galveston after hurricane Ike. Google these two, you'll find it around page 11, from a different angle - I just saw it on Discovery, that's how I know...
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