Funny angle
Everything in the entire world except this bus stop sign is at a funny angle.
Tags: buses, Photos
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Canola
I’ve seen pictures before, but canola crops are startlingly yellow when you see them up close. These photos are from near Nagambie yesterday, where there seems to be a lot of it at the moment.
Apparently the name once used here, and still used in the UK, is “rape”, or “rapeseed”. I think I can see why the marketing bods here these days prefer “canola” — which is derived from “Canadian oil, low acid”.
I don’t know if this lot is going into food, biofuels (whose demand for crops is said to be driving up world food prices) or something else.
Update Wednesday: ABC report: ABARE forecasts record canola harvest
Tags: canola, farming
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Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Kinda funny. Why just write “Garage sale” in your poster, when you can instead have an image of another “Garage sale” sign? To really spin people out, they could print this picture and stick it up around the place.
The Royal Mint, Melbourne. Established 1872. Producer of all Australian coins between 1927 and 1967. Noted as one of the finest government buildings of the 19th century, and one of few Australian examples of the Renaissance revival style. So is it just me, or does the “AFTERNOON PARKING $15″ sign somehow cheapen it?
Likewise — it’s a little more subtle, but once you notice it, I think the grand Bourke Street entrance to Southern Cross Station is somehow cheapened by the Johnnie Walker advert across the top.
Still, maybe if they raise enough money, they can fix the leak in the roof.
Maybe it’s just me that found this amusing: next to the Bus Zone, something more specific: a Mini Bus Zone.
(By the way, apparently whoever is responsible for the Bus Zone sign hasn’t been told that bus now runs 7 days-a-week until about 10pm.)
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Some pics
“Food”? What, it’s not really food? (Frankston)
Could this be a conduit to the future? (Northcote Station)
Road sign that actually goes around a corner (Wonthaggi)
Some pics
It’s too damn hot, so here are some photos from last week’s jaunt down to Inverloch.
Uh oh — he lives! Spotted this in Cranbourne:
In Korumburra we found this company who appear to have named their business after Net Speak’s “Be Right Back”… complete with an actual BRB message in the window:
This was one of the signs in Inverloch. Especially amused by the layout of the word “Poo”:
When we got home, we found this in Bentleigh. Next time they update the Google Streetview photos, watch out for me, standing opposite the post office snapping a photo with my phone. Maybe you’ll be able to see my Tintin t-shirt (if they don’t blur him out!)
Tags: Bentleigh, Cranbourne, Doctor Who, Google Streetview, Harold Saxon, Inverloch, Korumburra
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I’m sharp and smart
…apparently.
(It’s a sharps disposal container at Monash Medical Centre.)
Also spotted just before Christmas, reindeer carrot in Safeway:
- “The carrots preferred by reindeers.”
- “Ingredients: Carrots, magic, love.”
I wonder if the ACCC would approve of those claims?
Tags: advertising, food, hospital
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Poor Mr Pictogram
Poor pictogram man; he’s obviously in a state of complete despair over the loss of his car. I wonder if he’s based on someone real?
Has anybody compiled a web site of unlucky pictogram people? That’d be a fun project.
Actually maybe he didn’t lose his car. Maybe he just got outbid on the signed copy of the Doug Anthony Allstars book “Book” which I’m selling on Ebay. (Was that plug too subtle?)
Tags: pictogram, signs
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Friday pics
Every time I pass this mural in Glen Huntly, I wonder if the grinning face is meant to be anybody in particular.
This sounds like brutal honesty to me — perhaps they’re just not that good.
Surely this can’t be good for your tyres.
Tags: driving, street art
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