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Our department of transportation likes clever signage. It started several years ago with a campaign to reduce speeding in construction zones: Give 'Em A Brake
Then a seatbelt usage campaign: Click-It Or Ticket
For drinking holidays: Drive Hammered, Get Nailed
They're a bit cutesy and I have doubts about the UI wisdom of complicating simple messages, but I guess they're okay. Except now there is a new one: Litter And It Will Hurt!
...am I missing something? Is this witty in some way that I am missing? Is there a hidden pun? I now spend my time driving across the state repeating it to myself, looking for the pattern.
Litter And It Will Hurt! LitTER And It WILL Hurt! LitterAndItWillHurt! Letter Bandit William Hurt! Litteranditwillhurt! Litantilurt!
I meditate upon it across the pass, through the gorge, across the plateau, past the channeled scab-lands.
Litter!
And!
It!
Will!
Hurt!
It is my koan.
Litter And It Will Hurt!
Then a seatbelt usage campaign: Click-It Or Ticket
For drinking holidays: Drive Hammered, Get Nailed
They're a bit cutesy and I have doubts about the UI wisdom of complicating simple messages, but I guess they're okay. Except now there is a new one: Litter And It Will Hurt!
...am I missing something? Is this witty in some way that I am missing? Is there a hidden pun? I now spend my time driving across the state repeating it to myself, looking for the pattern.
Litter And It Will Hurt! LitTER And It WILL Hurt! LitterAndItWillHurt! Letter Bandit William Hurt! Litteranditwillhurt! Litantilurt!
I meditate upon it across the pass, through the gorge, across the plateau, past the channeled scab-lands.
Litter!
And!
It!
Will!
Hurt!
It is my koan.
Litter And It Will Hurt!
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Your DoT is crazy.
Also, you are crazy.
Dorxor.