CRT - Unexpected Hazard in Marple?

[1st ade]

The sign below (affixed to the non-towpath side of Marple aquaduct)

Suggests that CRT are expecting an imminent aerial bombing mission!

 

(or that they have run out of punctuation...)

[Laurence Hogg]

What falls from height? Hail (Hale)? plane crashing?

 

CRT are falling from grace for sure. Indeed CRT are falling over in a wholesale manner.

[Arthur Marshall]

I think it's aquaduct haiku. It's not a warning, just a philosphical statement. .

[Alan de Enfield]

Danger can come from other directions as well.

[BGA]

Very strange, where else are you going to fall from, if you don't have height you can't fall

[b0atman]

Always remember its the last bit of a fall that kills you.

[Machpoint005]

 

(or that they have run out of punctuation...)

 

No.they had used up all the 'O's and 'F's.

[LoneWolf]

I think it's aquaduct haiku. It's not a warning, just a philosphical statement. .

 

tsk, thats not a haiku.

A traditional haiku will be written in the syllabic rhythm 5,7,5 will contain a seasonal reference and the juxtaposition of 2 images/ideas

It could be the 1st line of one though, maybe:

 

 

Danger, falls from height

An autumn leaf softly drifts

but you will plummet

[Machpoint005]

'Snot an aquaduct either, but that's a nice haiku.

[PaulG]

This is one of my personal favourites. Anyone ever seen a tree that gives "notice" before something falls out of it?

[Mike Tee]

Always remember its the last bit of a fall that kills you.

I thought it was the sudden stop

[b0atman]

Yes but that's in the last bit.

I always remember the bit in the drama Brass where the man froze on the bottom rung of the ladder after coming down from the big stack.

Some brilliant sayings in that series like Timothy Edwards character telling the poor workers how he was jealous of them as they could look out of their windows and see his lovely mansion whereas he looked at their slums.

[FadeToScarlet]

What falls from height? Hail (Hale)? plane crashing?

 

CRT are falling from grace for sure. Indeed CRT are falling over in a wholesale manner.

 

I think it's in reference to the unfenced non-towpath side of the aqueduct, if they have put a sign up warning the public not to go on that side due to the risk of falling, then if they do fall CRT aren't liable.

[Emerald Fox]

On the Skyline Drive in Virginia, USA, there are signs saying 'Watch for Falling Rocks'. I said to my friend: "Wendy, we have to stop and watch for falling rocks!"

Watching for Turning Lorries can be another pastime.

[RLWP]

 

tsk, thats not a haiku.

A traditional haiku will be written in the syllabic rhythm 5,7,5 will contain a seasonal reference and the juxtaposition of 2 images/ideas

It could be the 1st line of one though, maybe:

 

 

Danger, falls from height

An autumn leaf softly drifts

but you will plummet

 

I think you should send that to CRT

 

In fact, I wonder if you could start a business turning warning signs into haikus

 

'Warning, vehicle reversing'

 

'Unexpected Item in Bagging Area'

 

'Operatives Working at Rear'

 

Richard

[Alistair Anderson]

Here is one of my favourite signs about hazards that are difficult to avoid http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/beware-of-golf-ball-sign-rosemarkie-black-high-res-stock-photography/143219003

[LoneWolf]

 

I think you should send that to CRT

 

In fact, I wonder if you could start a business turning warning signs into haikus

 

'Warning, vehicle reversing'

 

'Unexpected Item in Bagging Area'

 

'Operatives Working at Rear'

 

Richard

 

Do you think they would appreciate its brilliance? re-reading it, i think it is probably the best haiku i've ever written - i even underlined the contrast stylistically

I may just settle for graffittiing it on the sign when i pass

 

 

Love the idea. Wouldn't that make the world a better place

 

in the bagging area

not a big surprise

an unexpected item

 

sadly no room for the seasonal reference in that one

[madcat]

I wonder what other unexpected hazards Marple has to offer the dedicated thrill seeker.

[LoneWolf]

operatives working at rear

snigger if you must

just do not run them over

[madcat]

Our local council cordoned off a pear tree in a local park in case a rock hard fruit landed on somebody's head.

[David Mack]

Here is one of my favourite signs about hazards that are difficult to avoid http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/beware-of-golf-ball-sign-rosemarkie-black-high-res-stock-photography/143219003

Shouldn't the dot on the exclamation mark have dimpled edges?

 

My father used to have a book of motoring humour which included a cartoon showing a motorist approaching one of those exclamation mark signs, then around the next bend finding the road strewn with juggling clubs and cannon balls.

[Mac of Cygnet]

 

I think you should send that to CRT

 

In fact, I wonder if you could start a business turning warning signs into haikus

 

'Warning, vehicle reversing'

 

'Unexpected Item in Bagging Area'

 

'Operatives Working at Rear'

 

Richard

 

Too late! http://www.npr.org/2011/12/03/143053082/haiku-traffic-signs-bring-poetry-to-nyc-streets

 

[shipsbiscuit]

This one surprised me the first time...

 

 

... particularly as it becomes clear as you stop to read it that you must be standing right in the firing line.

[LoneWolf]

 

Too late! http://www.npr.org/2011/12/03/143053082/haiku-traffic-signs-bring-poetry-to-nyc-streets

 

 

excellent, especially like the last one