Saturday, January 20, 2024

Electronic Highway Signs Written by Great Authors



William Shakespeare: "Hail to a straight driver, hail to thee."

James Joyce: Keep your SUV jigging ajog, hoppy on route on tires ye memory.   

Pierre Boulle (Bridge over River Kwai)  "Approaching draw bridge, don't drawl."

Noam Chompsky: "Think you're smart? Elevated highway over 3 miles."


Maxwell House: "Too much coffee on the expressway? Slow down!"


Junot Diaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)

"Foursome, quartet, four-way stop!"


"AC/DC: Highway hypnosis? Time for Medical Diagnosis."


Billy Colins "Potholes filled with potential."



ChatGPT

Rudyard Kipling: "Watch your ears, Elephant crossing!"


"Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Don't be contrite, it's your right of way."


John Milton's Lost Highway: "Assuage rode rage: it's time to come of age."

Socrates: "Thou should drive to live, not live to drive."

Stephane Gould  "Speed bump good for centipede!"


William Butler Yeats: "Calculating, detonating, tailgating"


JG Ballard  "Traffic congestion ahead: brake or be brain dead."


George Orwell: "Accident! Rubbernecking,  French pecking: more bottlenecking."


David Attenborough: Hear coughing or frothing? Wildlife crossing!




Sunday, January 14, 2024

The Coded Wordgame Cracked



She had

A baguette 

With an extenuating dentelle

Elle, not HE or Lui

That rhymes with Hell

Luigi stood for 54 degrees Fahrenheit in

1887

An electronic ring in French 

Made for prisoners


The Donut Shop meant

Wind gusts up to 20 mph

Sprinkles blowing through the hole


"Leafage" expresses the dew point 

Pushed down by atmospheric

Pressure to knead and knead the dough

Rhymes with Bordeaux


A Station

A Bank


 In 1891 the Sinai 

Recorded "Carwash" 

Standing for Murky Water

(Though car washes didn't appear until 1914)


Hence:

Bagatelle- Luigi -Donut - Leafage- Carwash 

Means: "Put the prisoner in a 54 degree cell carrying an ankle bracelet and holding a donut with sprinkles blowing through it with 20mph gusts that was kneaded and kneaded with some or consequential delay and where a bank near the station of Bordeaux failed to wire money to the Sinai for irrigational purposes.