{"id":121,"date":"2003-09-29T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2003-09-29T22:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/09\/29\/partial-occlusion-of-signs-can-be-fu"},"modified":"2003-09-29T18:55:20","modified_gmt":"2003-09-29T22:55:20","slug":"partial-occlusion-of-signs-can-be-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/09\/29\/partial-occlusion-of-signs-can-be-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial Occlusion of Signs can be Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a141'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The classic Simpsons example of this is in the X-Files episode somewhere.  Homer sees a giant billboard which says &#8220;DIE&#8221;.  He emits a cowardly shriek.  The wind blows aside some foliage which had been covering part of the sign; it is now revealed to actually say &#8220;DIET&#8221;.  Homer emits a second cowardly shriek.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Cambridge, on Mass. Ave between Central and Kendall, there&#8217;s an old FIRE-PROOF STORAGE WAREHOUSE.  If you look from the right vantage (near the train tracks) it appears to be an IRE-PROOF RAGE WAREHOUSE.<\/p>\n<p>And the Boston Globe sidewalk boxes these days say &#8220;CATCH PLAYOFF FEVER&#8221;.  Put the right tree in front of it, and you&#8217;ll see CATCH LAYOFF FEVER.  Someone oughta make a campaign slogan out of that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classic Simpsons example of this is in the X-Files episode somewhere. Homer sees a giant billboard which says &#8220;DIE&#8221;. He emits a cowardly shriek. The wind blows aside some foliage which had been covering part of the sign; it is now revealed to actually say &#8220;DIET&#8221;. Homer emits a second cowardly shriek. Here in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}