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Warning! Mind the Mine!

by cjohnson

This one’s for Caolionn. She was collecting signs like this on her blog at some point, if I recall. I spotted this on a hike in the canyons on my trip off-planet (click on it for detail):
small mine warning

I just love this sign.

-cvj

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March 20th, 2006 2:38 PM
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13 Responses to “Warning! Mind the Mine!”

  1. 1.   Plato Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 2:57 pm

    Clifford, maybe a trackback to the, “There’s Gold on the Landscape?”

  2. 2.   Clifford Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 3:37 pm

    What? Oh….. very good….. also resonating with commenter science’s fool’s gold comment. Cute. :-)

    -cvj

  3. 3.   Plato Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 3:48 pm

    To me, the matters are the least of my idea’s about “gold” and is one more of, a “social conscience” in regards to what “wisdom might be implied.”

    “Seeds” for the future.

    But ya, okay, resonantes, but not with sciences(ego state consolidated) comment :) Emphemeral, remember :)

    Newton’s trouble maybe mine, as well. You know, “color and all” in regards to Wassily.

    “Pyrite” is a fool’s gold :) Baez, left us instructions about this.

  4. 4.   Clifford Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 3:59 pm

    Plato, as usual, you’re just way, way, way, way over my head.

    Thanks for the thoughts, though.

    -cvj

  5. 5.   Kea Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 4:53 pm

    Reminds me of the warning signs near the terminal face of the west coast glaciers – all in pictures for the non-English speaking tourists. They appear twice – the second time they completely block the path, along with a stone wall, so you have to be really, really, really pigheaded not to get the point! But some people manage anyway.

  6. 6.   Kea Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 4:57 pm

    Reminds me of the warning signs near the terminal faces of the west coast glaciers – all in pictures for the non-English-speaking tourists. They appear twice – the second time they completely block the path, along with a stone wall, so you have to be really, really, really pigheaded not to get the point! But some people manage anyway.

    Here’s an example:

  7. 7.   Kea Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 4:58 pm

    Oops. Here’s an example:

    sign

  8. 8.   Clifford Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 5:30 pm

    Kea…That’s Excellent!

    -cvj

  9. 9.   Plato Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 5:48 pm

    Clifford,

    My energy, through “tunnelling” from other universes is not all accountable, so the “communications” can get “fowled up” using chaotic english words, entangled:)

    Let me try that again.

    Wok this way? Walking the Wok? :) The “Weight” of Evidence

    I’ll be good now.

  10. 10.   Samantha Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 8:18 pm

    I particularly like the mention of “unstable explosives”. If the explosives left in the mine had only been stable!

  11. 11.   Nic Says:
    March 21st, 2006 at 6:55 pm

    I also happened to run across a sign of the same type but in a rather different setting…

  12. 12.   Clifford Says:
    March 21st, 2006 at 9:36 pm

    Food for thought, Nic.

    -cvj

  13. 13.   Very Specific - Asymptotia Says:
    October 12th, 2006 at 11:13 am

    [...] Yep, another one for Caolionn: [...]





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