Assumptions

I can’t be sure who sponsored, created, posted, or, in one instance, chalked these signs. I can only tell you what I assume. The first arrived via my friend Constance:

Cuisine by Emily Bronte? After she finished writing Wuthering Heights?

I spotted this one on First Avenue:

I assume this declaration comes from Rene Magritte, who needed a change after painting this:

The next one was posted on the window of a nearly empty store:

As you see, the Creative Preposition Society is taking its business OT a new location. Or maybe UP OT?

My friend Deborah found this one:

Spa amenities provided by the Passive-Aggressive Association, don’t you think?

I assume you spot some odd signs, too. Please take a moment to send them to me at grammarianinthecity@outlook.com.

6 thoughts on “Assumptions

  1. Junior Santos

    Although I’m quite interested in Literature, Wuthering Heights is not in my to-read list yet. Is cooking a subject much talked about in it?

    Having no idea who was Rene Magritte, I typed the name in Google search box and then clicked on images. Bulging my eyes, I thought I was seeing Pink Floyd album covers! I liked his works of art on sight! In any case, if this is not a pipe, I don’t know what else could be.

    What a babel would be if other parts of speech organized into their respective Creative Society?

    As for the last one I’m not willing to discuss. (LOL)

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    1. Geraldine Post author

      Rene Magritte is similar to Pink Floyd, indeed! There’s not much cooking in Wuthering Heights. The reference is to the setting, the heath, and to a character, Heathcliff. Thanks for your comment!

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  2. Ellie Presner

    Oh my gosh, these are such great examples of the products of the sign-makers’ foggy brains! They remind me of another doozy – I think you may have featured it in a past collection of “prize-winners”? – it was hanging up near the entrance to an underground garage, and it mixed up “EXIT” with “EXIST,” resulting in a somewhat existential conundrum. I wish I could recall it more clearly… Maybe you know what I mean? Argh… seems that my own brain is foggy too, lately!

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    1. Geraldine Post author

      Foggy season in my house, too! I remember you posted a sign with “exist” instead of “exit,” as well as one reading “SOTP” instead of “STOP.” Lots of fog, all around.

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