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Artists install Monty Python silly walk signs in Norwegian town
The Register ^
| 3/31/2014
| Jasper Hamill
Posted on 03/31/2014 6:10:06 PM PDT by markomalley
A Norwegian town has reminded denizens that a normal gait is preferable to a strange one after Swedish revolutionaries installed a pair of silly walk signs.
An art group put two street signs inspired by Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks on either side of a zebra crossing.
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"It's just for fun. There's no deep thought behind it," Reidar Johannes Søby from the Kreativiteket art group said. "People live in their ordinary lives and when they see this sign, maybe they can have a little smile on their face. That's all."
Apparatchiks at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration were not best pleased about the addition to the town's street furniture.
"They are not very happy about it," Søby said. "They do not seem to have a sense of humour.
"One should not use signs that can be confused with public signs," section chief Elisabeth Bechmann fumed.
TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ministryofsillywalks; montypython; napl; norway
Original source for the story comes from
The Local.
To: markomalley
"One should not use signs that can be confused with public signs," section chief Elisabeth Bechmann fumed.
If they're confused that easily they're too stupid to leave their homes.
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:12:52 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: markomalley
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:22:38 PM PDT
by
BBell
(The Blue Dog is Stupid)
To: markomalley
I love it! Everyone should practice silly walking, at least occasionally. BTW my 1.5 yo granddaughter agrees emphatically.
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:32:06 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: cripplecreek
A suit, a bowler, a briefcase and umbrella are a must before crossing (they should write that on the sign, and that will really piss off the “Section Chiefs.”)
To: markomalley
Artists. Pranksters. Bored people with extra income. Whatever.
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:33:49 PM PDT
by
Theo
(May Christ be exalted above all.)
To: markomalley
Does Norway really have a sufficient number of zebras that the Norwegians need to set up special crossings for them? Seems a bit of a waste to me.
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:34:51 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: BBell
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:35:17 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: JimSEA
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:46:22 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: markomalley
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:48:29 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
To: BBell
How about some anagram street signs like:
ON RUNT NO RED
POTS
ON FELT RUNT
GROWN YAW
EON YAW
SUB POST
And then there are the four directions:
THORN, SHOUT, SEAT, AND STEW
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:50:24 PM PDT
by
almcbean
To: digger48
Monty Python...and the Borgwalk....
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:52:04 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: Chode; SgtBob
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posted on
03/31/2014 6:57:07 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
(Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
To: Bob
What are you running for section chief of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration ? ;^)
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posted on
03/31/2014 7:44:40 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: mabarker1
LOL!!!
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03/31/2014 8:26:43 PM PDT
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posted on
03/31/2014 9:32:34 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Richard Warman censors free speech.)
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posted on
03/31/2014 10:14:55 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
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