Quirky Stuff and Amusing Notices

[garryknight]

No, it's not the start of the queue. It's the end of the queue. The start is right up the other end, past all the people.

 

[garryknight]

That's going to make the chalk all messy!

 

[Cap'n Fishy]

No, it's not the start of the queue. It's the end of the queue. The start is right up the other end, past all the people.

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Good pedantry. But does the queue not have 3 ends? There is a front end, a back end, and it all ends when the last person in it has been served. The start of the queue is when the second person to arrive creates it.

I'll get my coat...

 

[garryknight]

I'll get my coat...

You'll have to wait. There's a queue...

 

[Cap'n Fishy]

You'll have to wait. There's a queue...

At least they spelt queue correctly. And let's be thankful there were no apostrophes involved.

 

[sparker1]

Utah humor.

 

[garryknight]

Absence of Everything
(Including colour)

 

[fotoi]

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

 

[Terrycanon]

This van driver says what he means...

 

[fotoi]

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join,_or_Die

 

[Stiga]

he Earthquake House, on the outskirts of the village of Comrie, in Perthshire, Scotland, was the first dedicated earthquake observatory in the world. Comrie lies on the Highland Boundary Fault and suffers more tremors and quakes than anywhere else in the United Kingdom. The first modern seismometer was invented in Comrie in 1840 and the building put up 32 years later to house it.



This is the sensor sitting on bedrock

 

[Terrycanon]

I don't think anyone would try to steal a pair of goalposts from the playing field, but somebody clearly thinks they might try...

 

[OhLook]

I don't think anyone would try to steal a pair of goalposts from the playing field, but somebody clearly thinks they might try...

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Or they've been losing nets?

 

[Cliff Hilbert]

I don't think anyone would try to steal a pair of goalposts from the playing field, but somebody clearly thinks they might try...

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More than likely they don't want unauthorized people using the field.

 

[fotoi]

 

[Terrycanon]

Looks like a good show. Not expensive either.

 

[garryknight]

Looks like a good show. Not expensive either.

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They're just selling off the seats.

 

[OhLook]

Looks like a good show. Not expensive either.

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It's a concert featuring John Cage's most famous piano piece.

 

[Terrycanon]

Obvious question... when did anyone last see a fast hedgehog?

 

[Stiga]

Pot-man in kitchen garden, Dumfries House, southern Scotland