Monday, January 02, 2012

Blaze

There is a pillar of light at the top of the hill, it scorches the retina in a blazing vertical streak.  A change of perspective and it says Cédez le Passage - Give Way.
Posted by at 9:54 pm
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7 comments:

Zhoen said...

(o)

10:13 pm
Bee said...

I'm very prone to placing meaning (perhaps other and deeper than that which was intended) in such signs.

Happy New Year to you, Lucy. x

11:18 pm
Roderick Robinson said...

Would Brits use the verb "cede" in a public notice? I know we're not comparing apples with apples and that words carry different nuances of meaning on either side of the Channel but responding to the five-dollar words is one way I have of lightening the driver's burden. I trust you haven't been in France too long to have lost this innocent form of entertainment and that you still smile faintly at the ever-so-slightly cockeyed Merci pour votre compréhension.

Has the ever-so-slightly under-selling strapline gone for good?

7:22 am
J Cosmo Newbery said...

What's French for '...or else"?

11:54 am
Julia said...

Happy new year! French street signs make me happy too. Their almost Englishness feels so comfortably familiar once we cross the border.

2:51 pm
Lucy said...

Thanks dear readers!

We used to laugh about the idea of ceding one's passage. 'Risque de carambolage' is another favourite.

The blog description. A joke's a joke but we don't want to die laughing, as my elders used to say. I still maintain it said what needed to be said, but I kind of got tired of typing the text; I changed it round last time but didn't want to keep that for long or go back either, so I think it can go now. I might or might not think of another.

9:14 pm
Roderick Robinson said...

Since I have commented on the strapline before I don't want to be a bore on the subject. However, you might consider a floating strapline - putting in something new that has just occurred to you en route to the supermarket, leaving it there for a limited period, and thus providing a sort of truffle hunt for your devoted admirers. In fact the first such strapline suggests itself: Basically ephemeral and with a deep hatred of supermarkets. (Because it isn't a subject you often tackle, is it?)

8:09 am

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