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- From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Genetic aberations and armchair existe
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 22:28:58 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.195929.8796@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov20.195929.8796@eecs.nwu.edu> mack23@avalon.eecs.nwu.edu
- (Chris Walsh) writes:
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- >Obpeeve: In Illinois (or maybe just Cook county), there's a law which
- >prohibits smoking in various public accomodations, except in "designated
- >smoking areas". Now, you'd think that the signs used to designate such an
- >area would say, "Smoking Area", or maybe "Smoking permitted in this area".
- >Noooooooo. Every last one of 'em that I've seen says "Designated smoking
- >area". I guess all those signs are made by the Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
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- Whoever designed the signs apparently fell victim to the current buzzword
- mentality that afflicts much of the nation. Because of the expression's
- overuse in the media, people lost their ability to think of the expression
- "smoking area" without the prefix "designated." The same thing happened
- back in the Seventies with "viable alternative." (Translation: "alternative.")
-
- Something that's always mystified me are those signs that say, "Posted - No
- Trespassing." I don't know about the rest of you, but "No Trespassing" pretty
- much says it all for me. Unless it has some addition meaning that I'm not
- aware of, all the word "posting" adds is a notification that somebody put
- (i.e., "posted" the sign there). So the end result is a sign that means,
- "Somebody Put This Sign Here - Keep Out." Which is silly, because I can
- *see* that somebody put the sign there!
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- Geoff
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