Wonder if it works with international street signs like Ø means “no parking”, not just “no [whatever it’s prohibiting like smoking when it has a cigarette silhouette in it].”
It’s been a long running gag that in San Francisco’s Chinatown the signs say different things. One thing in English and something very different in Chinese.
Oh, for heaven’s sake, Lio! Don’t just stand there gabbing with the signs. If you need to get to the bathroom so urgently, be off with you. You can come back and sign with the signs more afterwards. I don’t want to witness any comic-strip “accidents”!
True story: when I was in college, I called a friend of mine on the phone who knows sign language to ask him how to introduce myself to a deaf classmate. He walked me through the sign for “name” … however, there was a slight miscommunication, and I ended up signing the ASL equivalent of the f-bomb. The “name” sigh is, you hold the index and middle fingers of each hand out and tap them together, perpendicular to each other. For the other, you make the “peace” symbol with each hand and slightly interlock the fingers as you tap yout the thumbs together. In other words, it pretty much looks like exactly what it means.
margueritem about 11 years ago
By golly, it worked!
Templo S.U.D. about 11 years ago
Wonder if it works with international street signs like Ø means “no parking”, not just “no [whatever it’s prohibiting like smoking when it has a cigarette silhouette in it].”
Peabody-Martini about 11 years ago
It’s been a long running gag that in San Francisco’s Chinatown the signs say different things. One thing in English and something very different in Chinese.
WSR about 11 years ago
♪ Signs, signs, ev’rywhere a sign..♪
pcolli about 11 years ago
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Sisyphos about 11 years ago
Oh, for heaven’s sake, Lio! Don’t just stand there gabbing with the signs. If you need to get to the bathroom so urgently, be off with you. You can come back and sign with the signs more afterwards. I don’t want to witness any comic-strip “accidents”!
rmacprivate about 11 years ago
I think he’s asking the first sign if he can pee on it’s post and and the second sign is telling him to do it to the signs down the block.
sbchamp about 11 years ago
When ya gotta, ya gotta…
Mopman about 11 years ago
Nice little realistic touch to have the paperbox chained to the post.
skipper1992 about 11 years ago
True story: when I was in college, I called a friend of mine on the phone who knows sign language to ask him how to introduce myself to a deaf classmate. He walked me through the sign for “name” … however, there was a slight miscommunication, and I ended up signing the ASL equivalent of the f-bomb. The “name” sigh is, you hold the index and middle fingers of each hand out and tap them together, perpendicular to each other. For the other, you make the “peace” symbol with each hand and slightly interlock the fingers as you tap yout the thumbs together. In other words, it pretty much looks like exactly what it means.
Comic Minister Premium Member about 11 years ago
I’m impressed that Lio can learn different languages! Other than words.
Godfreydaniel about 11 years ago
LIo, take a page from Thatababy and “blork” (but only in the proper facilities……..)
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 11 years ago
Brilliant.