Found poetry on the autoroute

[drdoug]

I've just come back from France

Comments

[mistdog]

Une ceinture (de sauvetage) is a seatbelt - that one's reminding you that they must be worn in front and in the back.

[drdoug]

Aha! That makes total sense, thank you.

(For my own future reference: having looked it up, I think seatbelt is une ceinture de sécurité, and une ceinture de sauvetage is a lifebelt.)

After I'd got over the idea of the sign being about literally sticking to something, I'd thought it meant belt in the sense of a zone or region, and it was a region in front of one car and behind the next.

Another bit of evidence to weigh in the balance towards "most of this effect is a result of my terrible French".

Although not all. 'Clunk click every trip' is at least as whimsical and poetic.

[drdoug]

Argh. Jimmy Savile did that on the telly, didn't he? Suddenly not so pleasant a thought.

[mistdog]

I knew that, I had sécurité in my head, then when I typed my reply my fingers typed sauvetage and I never noticed.

I'm making mistakes like that a *lot* in recent months. I'm starting to worry there is actually something wrong with my brain.

[vinaigrettegirl]

Even at the JR hospital car park, the machines tell you:

Change is possible

Found poetry is pervasive to those who see it :-)

[drdoug]

That's fantastic. :)

[babysimon]

Ce fil est inutile sans les mots BURMA SHAVE.

[vinaigrettegirl]

^^^^^ In another universe we met and drove past gems like these:

Keep well / To the right / Of the oncoming car / Get your close shaves / From the half pound jar / Burma-Shave