Transcript of “Highway Punnery”
I’m thinking back to that conversation that we had with Meg from Cape Cod about the sign on the highway that she saw that said, use Yablinka. And I was thinking that we failed to mention that there have been lots of other signs like that all around the country. One that I saw around the 4th of July said, don’t drive star-spangled hammered, which got my attention. And other ones around Halloween have said, hocus pocus, drive with focus. I mean, it’s smart. It’s casual and quick and gets the point across, right?
Well, I agree with you, but apparently the federal government doesn’t agree with us because a couple of years ago, federal regulators decided that they were going to push for those signs being retired because they felt that diminished respect for the sign. A federal agency said that those kinds of signs should be simple, direct, brief, legible, and clear.
And so while they didn’t ban those kinds of signs, they do discourage them. So they wagged a finger, and they must have had a new boss brought over from the IRS or something, because that’s no fun.
Maybe that’s it.
