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An image pregnant with promise

If I were driving along, and I saw this sign, I would have to turn left. And I would probably be bouncing in my seat with anticipation.


I wouldn’t change course even if there were another sign pointing to the right, saying “FREE ICE CREAM.”

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  4. UnknownEric the Apostate says

    Spider Farm, Spider Farm… never did any spiders harm
    Spin a web, any size… grow some corn, eat some flies
    Look out!!! Right there’s a Spider Farm.

  5. Becca Stareyes says

    You could go get the free ice cream, then go visit the power plant and spider farm with your ice cream. Just saying.

  7. Rich Woods says

    Who needs a signpost to a nuclear plant spider farm, anyway? If there’s an 80-foot long hairy leg arcing over you, you’re there.

  10. says

    I was disappointed by the Mirror article debunking, but the did link me to a perfectly good real highway sign from twitter: https://twitter.com/PeterPeterro/status/579736432408969216/photo/1

    Yes, there is a monkey rescue group located next door to a tank museum in Dorsett. Brings to mind a political cartoon during the invasion of Iraq about Bush. “Curious George goes to war”. Were the monkeys actually able to break out and start up an antique tank, that would just be schadenfreude at it’s best for me.

  11. rq says

    newenlightenment
    Gosh! Just how does one find the Secret Nuclear Bunker? It must be nigh impossible!!!!

  13. brucegee1962 says

    I remember the university paper where I went to college once had the headline “Genetics Lab Investigates spill of Radioactive Material.”

    Best. Headline. Ever.

  14. anym says

    #10, Brian Radovich

    Yes, there is a monkey rescue group located next door to a tank museum in Dorset

    I can verify that that Monkey World is a lot of fun, that the great ape play area is awesome and that orangutans were somewhat smaller than I expected.

    The fact that the monkeys might find the tank museum isn’t worth worrying about, because there’s an actual army tank training ground just down the road in the form of Bovington Camp.

    #13, brucegee1962

    I remember the university paper where I went to college once had the headline “Genetics Lab Investigates spill of Radioactive Material.”

    This is one of my favourites: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/05/23/315279895/organic-kitty-litter-chief-suspect-in-nuclear-waste-accident

  16. latveriandiplomat says

    @9: EDF has visitor centres and prearranged tours for some of their nuclear plants. I don’t think that would rate a brown sign that just said “nuclear power plant” though.

    http://www.edfenergy.com/energy/education/visitor-centres

    IIRC, Peter Parker was at a science museum for a public demonstration of nuclear energy, which involved creating a big radioactive zap in the open air in front of a large crowd of people, because, umm, Educational!

    So it was a feisty, wild spider, not one of those placid domestic ones. That’s why spidey is such a rebel, I guess.

  17. says

    #14 anym

    The fact that the monkeys might find the tank museum isn’t worth worrying about, because there’s an actual army tank training ground just down the road in the form of Bovington Camp.

    Thank you, I just snorted coffee all over my monitor while laughing.

  18. newenlightenment says

    #12
    Couldn’t find the pic but there’s a brown sign for barometer world making it seem like some kind of theme park (Actually its a museum/repair shop)

  19. UnknownEric the Apostate says

    Clyde Peeling’s Reptileland

    Since it’s on the road between Baltimore and Buffalo, I have been there many, many times. Touched a snake, fed an emu, was attacked by a peacock.

  20. aleph says

    But what if the sign pointing to the right said “FREE ICE CREAM AND SQUID AQUARIUM”?

  21. Excluded Layman says

    The obvious answer is that you’ll be heading to the right on your way back, and can easily grab ice cream then. How you get the squid aquarium home is another matter.

  27. Azkyroth, B*Cos[F(u)]==Y says

    Yes, there is a monkey rescue group located next door to a tank museum in Dorset

    Leading to the most alarming interpretation of “a barrel full of monkeys” ever formulated.

  31. Kevin Anthoney says

    But what if the sign pointing to the right said “FREE ICE CREAM AND SQUID AQUARIUM”?

    That wouldn’t happen. If you were building a nuclear power plant and a squid aquarium you’d make sure you built them right next to each other, wouldn’t you?

  32. arakasi says

    Filk singer Michael Longcor swears that he used to regularly pass a sign in Indiana that advertised “Bob’s Dog Obedience School and Taxidermy Shop”. He, of course, wrote a song about it.

    https://youtu.be/nsORBHjNxdc

  33. David Marjanović says

    Brings to mind a political cartoon during the invasion of Iraq about Bush. “Curious George goes to war”.

    Of course it was “Incurious George Goes To WAR!”.