All Pleasure is a Risk

Isaac asked me to post this where we could find it easily, since it is these days frequently referenced in conversation. This little sign seems to have great predictive powers, eliciting gratifying responses–or non-responses–from people we find more fun to be around–or less so.



[via Arnold Zwicky at Language Log ("Today's little amuse-bouche") whose attention was drawn to it by Chris Ambidge, friend of this blog and Beard of the Week Emeritus.]

In case the text of the sign in the photograph is not legible to you, it reads

Keep back from the platform edge
or you may get sucked off

Posted on August 1, 2008 at 16.55 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Laughing Matters, Raised Eyebrows Dept.

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