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Can you figure out the iconography on this sign in Golden Gate Park? A larger, clearer version is here
Don't cycle!
Don't shred!
Don't skate!
Don't scoot!
Don't walk! (transitive)
Don't play!
Don't pluck!
Don't trample!
Don't feed! (transitive)
All that adds up to "DON'T LIVE!" according to at least one vandal. The rules at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum are not unreasonable. However, their new-school international-style signs are a little different. These stacked up figures strike some as funny.
Obviously somebody has made an effort to avoid using too much American English, that non-inclusive sole official language of California. But be sure to check out the arboretum when you can. It's very pleasant with many interesting things. Just be nice when you visit.
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A few rules to help with sustainability, and this vandal concludes "Don't Live?" Must have been written by a current or a future homeless person ... the homeless are the most selfish (exceptions being the mentally ill) bastards ever with their refusal to live by rules in order to contribute to society. Meh....
^^^^Rincon, can you take a joke? I certainly appreciate the wit.
That third one from the bottom looks like "no funerals."
I like the one they have in Singapore: No Durians (they smell terrible).
Don't pluck. Oh, I thought it was telling me not to bury crosses. Thanks for clearing that up.
Hmmm, I thought that third one from the bottom was "No clubbing baby harp seals".
Akit-Durian for sale on Stockton St .89 pound. Polly Ann Ice Cream on Noriega has Durian flavor.
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Wow, the mind spins thinking of all the other "international no" signs that could be up there:
NO:
syringes
Hobos
pooping
BJs
stabbings
pickpocketing
hos
vomiting..........
The skateboard park in Moraga has a cute little ssquatting dog with a cute little turd popping out of it in their red-slash symbol:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15178573@N00/2101524574/
Isn't there a city ordinance banning smoking in city parks? Looks like they forgot an icon.
On Saturday my sons and I were trying to figure out that the picture of the guy kicking the soccer ball meant you could not play other sports (we wanted to toss a football around--and did so outside the gates).
That said, the gardens are one of the great hidden treasures of the city and a real respite from the city. I don't mind all the rules so that folks can meditate on the glories of nature, read their novels while sitting on the lawn, and enjoy each other's company.
Also, now the city has to pay to redo the sign.
I object to the vandal's comments. He used American English instead of expressing this thought with some cryptic icon. How culturally insensitive.
I always get a kick out of the Christmas decoration displayed on the top floor of an apartment building at Van Ness and Bush (the building on the corner, with the starbucks [the one that almost got 'sploded, cept the bomb was fake]).
The Christmas lights form a humongous L, which is circled and crossed out. Get it?
Marco Polo on Taraval and 24thish has durian ice cream as well. Tastes kinda like garlic, or so I've heard. No nifty spinning wheel like Polly Ann's tho.
Hee, I love these kinds of signs...re the "no plucking" sign, at first I thought the flowers looked like people - while I certainly wouldn't want it to happen, I thought that banning the harrassment of Liliputians by giants was a tad more specific than necessary...
Speaking of Singapore, one of my favorite signs was at the airport there, which features a figure of a man literally sprinting away from flames licking his heels (I believe it was for an emergency exit).