Carl and I are all like emailing each other about the Pleistocene banner this morning, and he’s all:
What a shame about the teratorns. If only they could have made it through the past few thousand years, they would have found a niche created expressly for them in the American highway system. On my drive to the store this morning I passed enough small carcasses to keep a half dozen of the big guys fed for a week. I can see the “TERATORN LANDING ZONE - next 10 miles” signs along Rts 80 and 395 now.
You know? And then so like I go
More stories need to start like this.
Carl and I are all like emailing each other about the Pleistocene banner this morning
Like, totally.
zomg, no way!
First: Carl’s opus and your narration are a masterpiece. I am profoundly impressed.
But to the point: the Teratorns warning sign reminds me of a sign I used to see along Bear Creek Road near Happy Valley Road in the early ‘70’s when I frequented that area for Briones (with my kids for hiking) or UC’s Leuschner Observatory (for whatever it is that astronomers do in Obersvatories). It was a standard yellow diamond hazard sign (like your Teratorns sign), but it read something like this:
“CAUTION
Newt Crossing”
and was decorated with a silhouette of a newt. It was a serious sign, too, since the California Newt annual migration takes the critters right across that road every spring.
I haven’t travelled Bear Creek Road in decades, but I bet you do frequently. Is that sign still there?
Oh, man. Love it.
Sherwood, I don’t remember seeing a newt sign around there. And I’m there a few times a year at least, most recently just after Xmas. South Park Road through Tilden Park is closed every year for the newts, but I imagine you knewt that already.
And astronomers use obversatories to look at the front of things.
“And astronomers use obversatories to look at the front of things,” indeed. Best typo tweak I’ve seen since your days on racs.
Actually, with the spelling all correct, “Astronomers use observatories to look at the front of things” is pretty damned profound, in an Eric Hoffer kind of way.
I hope you don’t mind if I steal it for the occasional lecture, because I will whether you like it or not.
(I do appreciate your not bringing a Gingerich reference to the interchange.)
So like, why don’t they build newt underpasses dude?
What’s an obervastory? Can I be certain that astronomers won’t be looking at my butt if I go near one?
Re the banner: Who here besides myself recalls the old Earth First! bumpersticker “Back to the Pleistocene!”? Always wanted one, never got one. So, like, that was the e-mail heading I used to refer some friends to this blog and the “About the banner graphic post” yesterday. Anyway, what I want now is a T-shirt with that logo and the banner graphic on it. I think, that would be like, totally rad, dude. Would Carl go for it? Would you?
Now I know who to go to for a “3Tops” crossing sing when we need one.
Oaktown Girl
Minister of Justice
WAAGNFNP
Now I know who to go to for a “3Tops� crossing sing when we need one.
Oops, I mean sign, not sing. 3Tops doesn’t need a singing sign.
What’s an obervastory?
I have since learned that it is a conservative overseeing male reproductive activity. For all the deferens that makes.