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Subject:RE: raison d'être From:jgarison -at- ide -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:07:10 -0400
This reminds me of my favorite sign ever. Years ago in the Orson Welles
Cinema in Cambridge, MA, the lobby was all glass panels, some of them doors.
One of the non-door panels had a sign:
THIS IS NOT A DOOR
But you're OK - it DOES look like one!
Think late '60s early 70s ...
John
>>-----Original Message-----
>>On Wednesday 02 October 2002 20:51, cpwinter -at- rahul -dot- net
>>wrote:
>>
>>> This reminds me greatly of the signs on the doors to
>>> maintenance areas of the hotel where the World Science
>>> Fiction Convention was recently held.
>>>
>>> Now, you'd think they would be the standard sort of
>>> warning, like "No admittance" or "Authorized personnel
>>> only" or a brusque but effective "Keep Out -- This means
>>> YOU!"
>>>
>>> No; what these signs (paper, but professionally
>>> printed) said was, "This is Not a Door". Needless to say,
>>> the attendees at the convention had a lot of fun adding
>>> rejoinders to the signs.
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